Julius Blank, who worked at Shockley Semiconductor before co-founding  Fairchild Semiconductor, tells how he and Eugene Kleiner, another Fairchild co-founder and founding partner of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, came to join Shockley’s infant semiconductor operation

Coming in first this month was the Gadget master special featuring 7 designs that will make any house a safe and happy home. Alberto Ricci Bitti’s award-winning design, the WitnessCam, came in a close second, providing a cheaper and more practical alternative to off-the-shelf surveillance systems. Rounding out the top three was the super flashlight, when the humble family torch ...

Philips has introduced a white light solid state lighting fixture based around blue power LEDs from its Lumileds subsidiary.

I travelled on Eurostar from St Pancras Station for the first time, and I am impressed, and also slightly disappointed.

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With the cost of developing each new semiconductor manufacturing process node escalating dramatically and time to market pressures increasing, there is no longe

International Rectifier expanded its SupIRBuck portfolio of versatile wide input, single output integrated point-of-load (POL) DC-DC voltage regulators with the

Linear Corporation introduces the LTC4110, an autonomous multi-chemistry, single chip, high efficiency flyback battery charge and discharge manager for server,

JTAG Technologies, a provider of boundary-scan test tools and an Aeroflex technology partner, announces the availability of the JT 2147/AGP boundary-scan interf

Avago Technologies announces a new gate drive optocoupler, the ACPL-312T, targeting automotive hybrid electric vehicle applications.