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Liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) have come a long way since their early use as tiny screens for electronic widgetry. This flat-panel technology has matured along with the notebook computer market, delivering […]

The trickle-down effect of the multimedia craze can be seen from one end of the electronics industry to the other, and the liquid-crystal-display (LCD) business is no exception. Color active-matrix […]

Close to a dozen suppliers of power MOSFETs are slugging it out for a piece of the growing automotive and consumer electronics markets, now major outlets for the latest of […]

Bella Abzug had an impressive and successful 65 year career as a public activist. Her legal career after leaving Columbia Law School began with social reform efforts. She continued these efforts throughout her life, becoming a deservedly recognizable figure in the arena of women's rights. Her Congressional career and work in international forums exhibited her tireless work and committment to social justice.

When James Hoban designed the White House, running water was just a dream. This is the story of how there came to be water in the White House. Water was [...]

When James Hoban designed the White House, running water was just a dream. This is the story of how there came to be water in the White House. Water was [...]

Have you ever read about dragons? Ever wonder if they ever existed? There is a breed of dragons that is alive today. A Komodo dragon is a rare, endangered, and [...]

Suppliers of sockets for devices in low-profile ball-grid-array (BGA) packaging have been developing adapter sockets that make design, production and test and burn-in of the devices in BGA footprints easier […]

Ball-grid-array sockets, with their low profiles, cost savings and increased circuit density, are forcing their way into the mainstream. But these tiny packages are facing challenges ranging from high-density routing […]

Today's "hot" electronics systems and subsystems have prompted a rash of new surface mountable heat sinks and miniature fans. These mature devices in their new high-tech versions cool everything from […]

San Francisco - More than 14,000 people converged at PCS '96, the Personal Communications Showcase conference here, heard of the promise, the regulatory environment and the remaining challenges facing the […]

Driven primarily by the needs of the high-volume automotive market, sensors have evolved from yesterday's cumbersome, mechanical constructions to become integrated, intelligent devices built with classical semiconductor-processing techniques. Because they […]

High-speed video and telecommunications systems have been driving the development of a new breed of operational amplifiers (op amps) for some time. As these applications go portable, there is an […]

Increasing efficiencies of LED materials are bringing down the cost of blue LEDs, resulting in a new generation of high-intensity devices so colorful they are able to achieve white light. […]

Certainly, cellular-phone handsets and other wireless communications devices have become the key market drivers for RF devices. But as vendors of RF amplifiers and other analog building blocks struggle to […]

A decade ago, high-performance (over 50-MHz) op amps were somewhat limited to sockets in low-volume, but high-cost, military and testing applications. Today, the explosion of multimedia, medical imaging and wireless […]

Many of today's expensive, high-complexity ICs are just too valuable to risk soldering them directly to printed-circuit boards, prompting board manufacturers to look at socketing as a way to minimize […]