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EW Daily News 14/04/2004 11:05:38 – Taiwan courts Western companies with connections to ChinaTaiwan courts Western companies with connections to China David Manners Taiwan is setting itself up as a stepping stone for Western firms looking to manufacture in lower cost China. Jack Cheng, senior specialist at the Taiwan External Trade development Council, told EW: Western companies should take advantage ...

EW Daily News 14/04/2004 11:00:44 – VCSELs are tunable over 30nm rangeVCSELs are tunable over 30nm range Richard Ball Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) tunable over a 30nm range are being built by Two-Chip Photonics of Germany. The firm, using technology from a European tunable lasers project, said the device has the highest tuning range published to date for ...

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EW News 14/04/2004 – Taiwan courts Western companies with offer of ‘Bamboo Connection’ to ChinaTaiwan courts Western companies with offer of ‘Bamboo Connection’ to China David Manners Taiwan is setting itself up as a stepping stone for Western firms looking to manufacture in lower cost China. Jack Cheng, senior specialist at the Taiwan External Trade development Council, told EW: Western ...

EW News 14/04/2004 – Firm to move quantum tunnelling into volumeFirm to move quantum tunnelling into volume Melanie Reynolds Darlington-based materials developer Peratech has secured £700,000 in what the company hopes will be its final funding round. Andy McLeod, chief executive officer at Peratech, said the money would be used to move its quantum tunnelling composite (QTC) technology from the ...

EW News 14/04/2004 – Intel’s 95 per cent lead reduction does not satisfy RoHSIntel’s 95 per cent lead reduction does not satisfy RoHS Richard Ball Intel’s decision last week to reduce the lead content of its processors and chipsets will not result in RoHS-compliant products. While external pins and solder balls will become lead-free, five per cent of the lead ...

EW News 14/04/2004 – Maths techniques reduce software bugsMaths techniques reduce software bugs Richard Ball UK software experts have started a firm to develop tools that let software developers reduce errors in their code. Verum Consultants has taken maths techniques, including formal verification, and combined them with the communicating sequential processes method and model checker. While almost every other branch ...

EW News 14/04/2004 – NEC reveals organic radical battery detailsNEC reveals organic radical battery details Steve Bush NEC has revealed performance details of its organic radical battery, a lithium-ion cell variant that could potentially be recharged in less than a minute. The organic radical battery was created through the substitution of the heavy metal oxide with an organic compound as ...

EW Technology 14/04/2004 – Polymer Fets pushed to below one micronPolymer Fets pushed to below one micron Harry Yeates Polymer Fets with a channel length of less than 500nm have been built by researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish lab. The scientists claim the Fets are the first such devices with a sub-micron channel length to use polymer source ...