Dr. Ingeborg Hochmair, co-founder and CEO of MED-EL, and E. Jan Vardaman, President and founder of TechSearch International, will speak during "Challenges Facing Medical Electronics Packaging and Substrates," September 16-17, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

TÜV Rheinland has acquired the engineering company Geris Engenharia e Serviços in São Paulo, Brazil, significantly expanding TÜV Rheinland's commitment in South America.

Wireless sensors are of huge interest for reasons that vary from disaster control to more efficient farming and military deployment.

Although the U.S. economy is still vulnerable, a "double-dip" recession is unlikely with slow-to-moderate growth continuing this year and gradually accelerating in 2011, according to a U.S. economic forecast released by George Mokrzan, Senior Economist for Huntington Bank.

Printed Electronics are being developed by over 3,000 companies, universities and research institutes worldwide. Although a significant percentage of these developers are located in the U.S., Germany, Japan and South Korea, there's a lot of research effort in other countries, even if the concentration of active companies active is lower.

DRAM revenue worldwide reached $10.7 billion in the second quarter of 2010, up 15.2 percent quarter-on-quarter, according to DRAMeXchange, driven by the steady increase in DRAM prices and the slight increase in production.

Available globally as an off-the-shelf product for all vehicles, Mobileye's technology saves lives, alerting and prompting drivers in the critical seconds before a collision occurs, and thus boosting pedestrian, road and vehicle safety.

Although the first tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) appeared in the mid-80's as a feature of top-range luxury vehicles, it is only in recent years that they have seen widespread adoption worldwide. Most drivers in the USA must recognize the symbol below, a warning light incorporated in dashboards of all new vehicles after 2007 (although phase in started in 2005), that informs drivers on whether tire pressure is getting dangerously low.

Worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2010 is forecast to reach $300 billion, a 31.5% increase from 2009 revenue of $228 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. Analysts project worldwide semiconductor revenue to total $314 billion in 2011, a 4.6% increase from 2010.

A pioneering study by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has shown that sandwiching a simple layer of silver nanoparticles can significantly improve the performance of organic transistors commonly used in consumer electronics. This breakthrough is expected to cut down the cost of memory devices and improve their performance.