2020-04-07 - Alissa M. Fitzgerald, Farzad Khademolhosseini

MEMS Tech to Combat the Coronavirus

The race against time to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a global flurry of activity and collaboration by technology…

2020-04-01 - Giovanni Di Maria

Covid-19: Designs for Low-Cost Ventilators

Designers from all over the world are working to design and build special low-cost ventilators in no time to fight…

2020-03-30 - Ann R. Thryft

How Secure is U.S. Election Technology?

U.S. election infrastructure remains unsecured mere months before the next presidential election.

2020-03-25 - Cabe Atwell

Combatting Covid-19 with Emerging Tech

Medical professionals are employing the latest technology to help mitigate the current pandemic that's hit nearly every continent.

2020-03-23 - Sally Ward-Foxton

‘Electronic Nose’ Inspired by Neuromorphic Technology

Detecting chemicals via their smells is useful for security and medical applications.

2020-03-19 - Nitin Dahad

OFC 2020: The Future of Silicon Photonics and Optics

OFC 2020 went ahead with a combo of live and virtual events to explore the future of optics and silicon…

2020-03-19 - Echo Zhao, EE Times China

SMIC Graduates to Something Sort of Akin to 7nm

SMIC introduces an advanced 14nm production process as it tries to close the technology gap with the west.

2020-03-18 - Sally Ward-Foxton

IBM’s Watson Now Understands Idioms

The technology from Project Debater is now commercially available as part of Watson.

2020-03-13 - Joseph Ervin, Lam Research

Speeding Up Process Optimization With Virtual Processing

This DRAM case study demonstrates that it is possible to eliminate the time and cost of irrelevant DOE paths and…

2020-03-06 - Gary Hilson

HBM Thrives, HMC Hangs On

While high bandwidth memory (HBM) is flourishing, hybrid memory cube (HMC) is finding life in applications that didn't exist when…