Silicon photonics can now be more efficiently connected to mainstay low index contrast fibre following a development by Chiral Photonics scientists. Read more »

ASP Microcomputers has been appointed Australian partner for Casino Japan's range of mobile business solution products including mobile barcode terminals and industrial PDAs. Read more »

The Electronics Industry Association (EIA) has appointed Steve Adcock as its new CEO. Read more »

WL Gore & Associates has doubled its manufacturing capacity for flat cables to keep pace with demand for cables capable of reducing particles and outgassing in semiconductor manufacturing steps such as lithography, ion implantation and inspection. Read more »

IMEC, Europe's nanoelectronics research institute, and Qualcomm, will collaborate to understand and devleop solutions for using 3D technologies in future wireless products. Read more »

Hendon Semiconductors of Adelaide has been awarded the ISO 13485 Medical Device Quality Management Standard that represents the requirements for a management system for designing and manufacturing medical devices. Read more »

GE Digital Energy says its Multilin HardFiber System eliminates the need for thousands of copper wires in a substation and replaces them with a few fibre-optic cables. Read more »

The China Earthquake Administration, the government body managing the country’s earthquake preparedness and disaster mitigation, has selected a structural health monitoring system developed by National Instruments Alliance Partner CGM Engineering. Read more »

Nordic Semiconductor is relocating its supply chain headquarters to the Philippines. Read more »

Tyco Electronics’ networking division AMP Netconnect has launched a website configured as an information-driven portal where visitors can find technical details. Read more »

Osram Opto Semiconductors is spearheading the European-funded CombOLED project to develop cost-effective volume production methods for OLEDs. Read more »

CIP Technologies in Britain has released what is believed to be the first commercial reflective electro-absorption modulator. Read more »

The National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with BICSI South Pacific Region at the recent BICSI South Pacific 2008 conference in Melbourne. Read more »

Sigma-Aldrich has signed an agreement with Plextronics to distribute its organic semiconductors and conductive inks. Read more »

Advantech has received the Taiwan Excellence award for its intelligent audio and video controller, the UbiQ-350. Read more »

IMEC reports an improved performance for its planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-based metal gates for the 32 nm CMOS node. Read more »

Richardson Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with HVVi Semiconductors of Phoenix, AZ, to distribute its RF power transistors, based on HVVi’s HVVFET architecture. Read more »

NanoMarkets has released the first of four report modules from the firm's printed electronics materials database. The first report provides near-term outlook for the printed electronics materials business and concludes that printed electronics is evolving rapidly towards real commercial products and will need materials that perform well and are available in commercial quantities over the next year or so. Read more »

A team of researchers has developed what it claims is one of the tiniest optical switches ever made — about one tenth of the size of a human hair. Read more »

Soanar has signed a distribution agreement with MeshNetics, a provider of ZigBee modules and embedded software for OEMs and system integrators. Read more »