Cheap 4G Devices by 2010?

TI is using vertically integrated engineering teams with the goal of realizing a $10 4G chip operating at 100 MHz with 10 million gates and memory.

WAPI’s dead. Long live WAPI?

SED in time for 2008 Olympics?

Originally planned for volume production in January 2007, Toshiba and Canon have pushed the schedule back to 4Q 2007, with pilot runs of 55" panels in July. The delay was attributed the extra time required to meet the increasing price competitiveness of LCD and PDP TVs.

Ditch your mouse. It’s time for electroencephalography!

Demonstrations of using brain signals to control electronic equipment are becoming more prevalent. Applications of course include the physically disabled, as well as safety technologies such as applying car brakes in an emergency.

Progress on LED efficiency faster than expected

Nichia has developed a white LED chip with 100-lumens/watt efficiency, the top end of the sweetspot in order to compete with fluorescent lights. Such a level was not executed until between 2008 – 2010. Sampling will start in June 2006 with mass production by the end of the year in the form of a 5-mm diameter lamp package.

OLED for Printing Applications

Epson and Sumitomo Chemical have teamed up on a prototype compact printer head using OLED technology. The next step is volume production.

UPenn creates nanogaps

University of Pennsylvania researchers have realized a breakthrough in nanoelectronics by creating nanogaps via electron beam lithography. Applications include:

• microprocessor chips
• storage devices
• quantum computing
• gene reading

Koreans Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

Researchers at KAIST have announced that they have developed the worlds smallest transistor with a channel length of 3 nanometers. This would enable the development of terabit memories and processor speeds of 100GHz without the use of exotic materials such as carbon nanotubes or information processing within molecular materials.

DMB Prospects Improve in China

U.K. RadioScale has won more orders to supply DMB systems mobile TV operators in China, buring the total to 9 orders. Beijing Jolon Digital Media Broadcasting, Shanghai Oriental Pearl, and Guangdong Yue Guang Ditital Media Broadcasting, as well as others, are said to be bringing services on-line soon. RadioScale claims to have been a major enabler of Korean DMB deployment.

UWB Cellphone

Samsung has demonstrated a UWB phone that can perform large file transfers with set-top-boxes and other phones.

UWB Solutions for Mobile Handheld Devices(?)