MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering laptops, cell phones, radios and other electronic devices. » Continue Reading

Believed to be the world’s tiniest implementation of a TCP/IP stack and a HTTP web-server the iPic Web Server is a complete micro-computer on a single chip. And at less than $1, it seems poised to get your next toaster talking to you through the internet. Using very carefully hand-packed TCP/IP code of about 256 bytes and a HTTP 1.0 compliant web-server, » Continue Reading

Siemens has announced a new colour display screen that can be printed onto paper or cardboard and is thin, flexible, and affordable enough to be included in books, magazines, labels, tickets, instructions, multimedia games embedded in the breakfast cereal box and a host of other traditionally “dumb” media where clarity of the message is vital – such as the dosage instructions on drugs, installation instructions for people who » Continue Reading

Spintronics (a neologism for “spin-based electronics”), also known as magnetoelectronics, is an emergent technology which exploits the quantum propensity of electrons to spin as well as making use of their charge state. The spin itself is manifested as a detectable weak magnetic energy state characterised as “spin up” and “spin down”.
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Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is a revolutionary memory technology that can replace many of today’s semiconductor memory technologies. MRAM combines the speed of eSRAM and the non–volatility of Flash onto a single chip. MRAM uses magnetic moments, rather than an electric charge, to determine the on–off state of the memory bit cell. It allows a single memory solution to replace multiple memory options within one chip—helping to enable faster, more cost–effective solutions for next-generation memory–intensive products. » Continue Reading