The management of power on semi-conductors is being seen as the biggest challenge facing the electronics industry in the 21st century, according to a survey conducted by the specialist news agency Future Intelligence News.
In the survey a large cross-section of the electronics industry confirmed that the demands placed on chip designers by the rapidly developing market in mobile technology has made power technology one of the most important factors in chip design.
The UN is predicting a massive take-up in fuel cell technology over the next 15 years.
According to speakers at an international conference on fuel cells held this November at the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies, China India and Brazil have already embarked on active programmes to develop hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
China, already acutely conscious of the economic contraints imposed on it by its lack of oil reserves is carrying out fuel cell vehicles and refuelling station demonstrations in Shanghai and Beijing.
One of the world's leading patent databases has put some of Russia's top electronic R&D secrets on the web.
FIZ Karlruhe, which is already one of the world's leading suppliers of patent information, is publishing in English the Russian Agency for Patents and Trademarks' Russiapat online file, which covers inventions patented in Russia from 1994 to the present day.
Note: http://stnweb.fiz-karlruhe.de
Cleveland, Corpus Christi, Philadelphia and Taipei Embrace Technology to Improve, Expand Municipal Services
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2005--Intel Corporation today announced an initiative to help communities use wireless technology and innovative applications to expand and improve services for municipal governments, businesses and citizens.
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