Retrofit kit said to transform cars into hybrids Industry agrees on unified cellphone chargers Five enablers for future chip scaling IEEE plans PoE patent pool Carbon chip technology goes commercial Industry insiders, EE Times editors on Moore's Law Graphene's electrically tunable bandgap leapfrogs silicon 'Stickies' show way to stretchable electronics IMS 2009 looks to future, while acknowledging the past Gartner's 7 trends in gloomy IC forecast Hot papers at 2009 VLSI Technology Symposium Conference report: Hard to see the recession from the IMS show floor Agilent CTO cites measurement trends, challenges at IMS 2009 10 gaffes: What were they thinking? The next Silicon Valley Analysts, execs, EE Times weigh in on IC forecasts MEMS barometers boost hard drives, GPS Nanopatterning boosts efficiency of incandescent bulbs Antenna specialist claims big SAR advance for small devices 10 companies in trouble Apollo forum: The epic that launched a generation of engineers National sees clouds at 50th anniversary party Capacitive touchscreen scales up for use on netbooks Researchers warn of major flaw in transistor theory Invisibility cloaks spread out Handheld ultrasound gets FDA approval 'New' ST fights image of old ST Touch screen revenues could reach $9 billion by 2015 Acoustic applications are cutting through the noise Panelists see energy harvesting on the cusp Q&A: AnalogicTech CEO likes chaos, shuns foundries My Kindle Researchers confirm theoretical predictions for graphene Q1 chaos remakes top 20 IC supplier rankings White OLED surpasses fluorescent lamp efficiency TI to demo SuperSpeed USB 3.0 transceiver chip Warp Factor 10! Star Trek warp drive in the works Analog IC market seen stabilizing Analog/digital marriage ends; MIPS/Chipidea not a good idea Wi-Fi backers drive to 60 GHz Robotic hand said to combine simplicity, dexterity Detector to peer deep into the 'Big Bang' Report: Ultrawideband dies by 2013 IEEE kicks off smart grid effort in June Lab models swine flu's spread; diagnostic chips being readied Wireless rivals vie to replace IR remote controls IDT embeds smart power tech in consumer ICs GE holographic disk said to top 500 Gbytes Printed batteries market seen powering up Accenture unearths engineer ennui ADI, Infineon collaborate on automotive airbag systems NIST nudges quantum computers toward commercial viability Who is inside the Kindle 2? Ferroelectric gates make transistors nonvolatile TI Q1 profits fall 97% but visibility improves Life After Layoffs Atomic clock accuracy boosted TriQuint retains GaAs foundry lead Researchers tout diamond transistor breakthrough Fuel cells get $49M in stimulus funds Linear Tech hits guidance, cuts 130 jobs Research team reports breakthrough in optical silicon communication Novel 3-D packaging startup snares $15M in funding MIT researchers claim novel pattern exposure Diatoms could triple solar cell efficiency Four questions on design using social networks IBM Fellow: Moore's Law defunct Synthetic diamond could be quantum computer's best friend Transparent displays create new uses for windows Spec-compliant RF remote controls emerge Japanese researchers transform optical fiber into solar cell Edison and innovation: Lessons from the master U.S. high-tech jobs grew again in 2008, says study Counterpoint: Meeting with the unexpected MIT harnesses viruses to print 'green' batteries Advancements in wireless, sensors and MEMs are set to change energy harvesting ACE Award winner Sanghi uneasy about U.S. economy Latest news from ESC Silicon Valley Microchip, Chang headline 2009 ACE Award winners Astronaut invokes 'Apollo spirit' for 'hard days ahead' Microchip DSCs take digital power control mainstream Algorithm could replace touch screens with MEMS control Slideshow: ACE Innovators of the Year New analog IC markets seen after 2008 decline Analysis: Is TI ready for a major analog IC acquisition? TI analog boss says unit will drive company growth Sarnoff LED spinoff obtains funding Graphene circuit combines Si, GaAs functions China stimulus boosts analog demand Cold fusion experimentally confirmed QMEMS enables real-time clock oscillator Changes seen in MEMS vendor rankings Switching on the smart grid Counterpoint: Does innovation need a reality check? IEEE approves low-power design spec Vote on top ten sites with engineering appeal National Semi buys solar firm IEEE, conference drive smart grids Micronetics buys part of MA/COM's RFID lines Nanorods said to ease assembly of 3-D chip stacks