20 Apr 2015

Trial of electric tricycles in the Philippines
Fujitsu Limited and Global Mobility Service, Inc. have announced that they will commence field testing to expand services in the Republic of the Philippines so as to increase the prevalence of electric tricycles that use ICT.
1 Apr 2015

First flexible IoT-supporting beacon needs no battery replacement
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd has announced the development of a thin, light-weight beacon, weighing 3 grams with a thickness of 2.5 millimeters, that does not require battery replacement or other maintenance and is flexible enough for installation on round objects, corners, and curves.
3 Mar 2014

Wearable Technology: The $70 billion picture
This article shares some of the recent research from the brand new IDTechEx report Wearable Technology 2014-2024.
22 Jan 2014

Transparent conductive film - a complex yet booming market landscape
Transparent conductive sheets (on glass or other substrates) are used in a variety of applications including touch screens, displays, lighting, photovoltaics, etc.
External press release
31 Jan 2013

Industry-standard ultra-low power microcontroller benchmarks
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) has announced its intent to create a standardized, industry-endorsed method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power (ULP) microcontrollers.
23 Jun 2011

Fujitsu and Sapporo Shirakaba-dai Hospital patient guidance system
Fujitsu Limited and Sapporo Shirakaba-dai Hospital recently announced the joint development of a clinical appointment guidance system that employs color electronic paper (e-paper). The system recently began full operations.
External press release
8 Jun 2011

SuVolta's innovative PowerShrink
SuVolta announces PowerShrink Planar CMOS platform to dramatically reduce integrated circuit power consumption
13 Dec 2010

Device generates electricity from both light and heat
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have announced the development of a new hybrid energy harvesting device that generates electricity from either heat or light.
21 Dec 2009

Race for color video e-readers
The e-reader is a killer application involving printed electronics. Despite costing more than an i-Pod, the Amazon Kindle achieved 500,000 unit sales in its first year of trading last year and now we are talking of millions. The i-Pod, an iconic success, only achieved 300,000 unit sales in its first year of trading.
8 Oct 2009

Amazon's Kindle goes international
The international version of Amazon's Kindle is now available to order in 100 countries although it will be another two weeks before the devices are shipped from the US.
2 Oct 2009

More exciting developments at Printed Electronics Asia - part II
The afternoon of the first day of the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia event this week continued to illustrate how an increasing minority of developers of printed transistors target metal oxide versions with better performance. However, organic versions retain advantages of being tightly rollable and low voltage.
1 Oct 2009

Exciting developments reported at Printed Electronics Asia
Dr Harry Zervos reports from Tokyo an overview of the first day of Printed Electronics Asia, which covered exciting developments in printed electronics and photovoltaics for East Asia.
22 Sep 2009

E-paper display market reaches $1.17 billion in 2014
IDTechEx find that the total market size for e-paper displays in 2010 is $131 million rising to $1.17 Billion in 2014 - this is the value of the display component, not the product.
22 Jul 2009

New topics covered at Printed Electronics Asia
While some involved in OLEDs and OTFTs are moving out of the business of printed and potentially printed electronics, work on inorganic materials and compounds is increasing. The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia event in Tokyo will give a balanced view with many presentations being World firsts.
16 Jul 2009

Body area networking standard attracts industry attention
The recent IEEE 802.15.6 Working Group meeting in Montreal, Canada drew significant interest from major industry players including Philips, General Electric, Texas Instruments, Toumaz and Samsung.
25 Jun 2009

Huge increase in printed electronics toolkit
This year has already seen a huge increase in the choice of electronic components that can be printed or are compatible with printing in that they are thin, flexible and can support further printed circuitry on top.
11 May 2009

The race is on to commercialize a full-color electronic reader
The race is on to make a full-color electronic reader a reality with a recent entry from researchers at the University of Cincinnati who have collaborated with Sun Chemical, Polymer Vision and Gamma Dynamics.
13 Mar 2009

Huge Advances in Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) - part 2
In the second part of this two part article Cathleen Macher, Technical Analyst at IDTechEx, looks at the very latest progress with carbon nanotubes (CNT) in East Asia.