4 Aug 2008

Silicon chip chemicals become a bridge to printing
Before the 1990s, silicon chip technology employed only six elements according to IBM but today we see a huge variety of compounds, alloys, solvents and dopants brought to bear.
17 Jul 2008

Graphene could be used one day in large-area thin film electronics
Researchers have found a simple way to uniformly deposit between one and five layers of graphene to create transistors and proof-of concept electrodes for organic photovoltaics.
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11 Jul 2008

Impinj acquires Intel's UHF RFID reader chip operation
Acquisition expands Impinj product portfolio and increases customer base
4 Apr 2008

Graphene - highest mobility and processable
Chemists and physicists are hard at work developing production processes for graphene - one day it may even be printable.
7 Jan 2008

Intel USA quits third world laptop project
Intel has withdrawn from one of the schemes to supply children in the developing world with $100 laptop computers after a dispute with its partners in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project.
6 Dec 2007

RFID is Poised for Change
The prosperous RFID business is on track to grow from about $5 billion in 2007 today to over $25 billion in 2017. Without collusion, most analysts agree to figures in that region and several of them see huge volumes of extremely low cost tags forming a part of the growth - even hundreds of billions in ten years from now. This seems to sit awkwardly with some press reporting that RFID retail initiatives have stalled. As one of those analysts, let IDTechEx explain.
9 Nov 2007

Plastic Logic UK announces new appointments
Plastic Logic announced last week that the company's Board of Directors has appointed Richard Archuleta to the position of Chief Executive Officer and member of the company's Board of Directors. In addition, the Board of Director's has appointed Stratton Sclavos as a Non-Executive Director.
8 Oct 2007

Ubiquitous Sensor Networks Event in Korea
The millions to billions of tags involved in the Ubiquitous Sensor Networks often have RFID and power sources and be made by printing to achieve the necessary very low cost.
28 Sep 2007

Plastic Logic Make New Appointments
Konrad Herre's appointment marks a decisive step in the intensive build up of Plastic Logic's German subsidiary.
18 Apr 2007

Printed Electronics Awards Winners
Over 330 delegates from 30 countries attended the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event in Cambridge, UK this week. The event hosted the inaugural IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards in recognition of outstanding achievement. Here are the winners.
29 Mar 2007

Printed Electronics - the Giants Get Involved
Printed electronics often involves simple things such as printed conductive patterns to counter the pollution, unreliability, bulk, weight and cost of wires, solder and etched patterns. Most commonly, printed electronics will be used where traditional technology is simply not a feasible solution, such as wallpaper that generates power and doubles as a television and lighting or electronic anti-counterfeiting on 100 billion cigarette packets yearly, giving traceability at a cost of only 0.1 cents per package.
11 Dec 2006

Active RFID Attracts More Big Money
With the launch of an RFID Investment Summit to be held in Boston on Feb 20, Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx looks at the recent investor interest in RFID and particularly active RFID and Real Time Locating Systems.
12 Jun 2006

A view from Venture Capitalists investing in RFID
Investors seek unique technologies, then some major customers. Passive RFID oversupplied; but opportunities for active RFID and software.