A semiconductor membrane designed by researchers at the University of Illinois could offer more flexibility and better electrical performance than biological membranes. Built from thin silicon layers doped with different impurities, the solid-state membrane also could be used in applications such as single-molecule detection, protein filtering and DNA sequencing.

Like crowds of people, microscopic particles can act in concert under the right conditions. By exposing crowd behavior at the atomic scale, scientists discover new states and properties of matter. Now, ultrafast lasers have revealed a previously unseen type of collective electronic behavior in semiconductors, which may help in the design of optoelectronic devices.

Any machinist will tell you that a little grease goes a long way toward making a tool work better. And that may soon hold true for plastic electronics as well.

High Performance GPS Solutions in New Generation of Handheld Devices Lead Development of Personal Navigation

Synplicity, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced its revolutionary new Identify® Pro ASIC and ASSP verification solution. The Identify Pro software, featuring Synplicity's TotalRecall™ technology, provides designers with full visibility into FPGA-based ASIC and ASSP prototypes enabling them to find, fix and verify functional errors at speeds approaching that of the final device.

New Company to Deliver Innovative, Cost-Effective Non-Volatile Memory Solutions

NemeriX Vice President of Marketing Lewis Boore will be presenting to a key analyst audience at the Thomas Weisel Partners' 2007 GPS-RFID Conference on Thursday, May 24, at 11.15am.

Electrical engineers from the University of Delaware and Cambridge NanoTech have demonstrated for the first time how the spin properties of electrons in silicon--the world's most dominant semiconductor, used in electronics ranging from computers to cell phones-can be measured and controlled.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today introduced two new evaluation kits for its fast-growing PSoC mixed-signal arrays. The kits, which address pyroelectric infrared motion detection and I2C port expansion, give designers easy-to-use tools to quickly and efficiently complete PSoC designs for a variety of applications.

Industry's Only DSP Synthesis Engine Targeting ASIC Designs

Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co. Ltd. and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. have signed an agreement whereby Cypress will license its 0.13um SONOS embedded nonvolatile memory (NVM) technology to Hua Hong NEC .

Marvell, the leader in storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions, today announced that the Company's industry leading WLAN products fully support the Intel Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) initiative (codenamed McCaslin).