Vinod Khosla

Solar cell efficiency boosted

Thin-film solar cells that could boost efficiency by 50 percent while also cutting materials costs by using less silicon will be reported by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers at the annual meeting of the...

Should We Raise the Price of Gas and Use the Extra to Fund a Big Three Bailout?

Should We Raise the Price of Gas and Use the Extra to Fund the Big Three Bailout? Question/Comment: There was an article in the New York Times suggesting we peg gas prices at $3.50 and use the income to fund the Big Three...

Alternative Energy Storage Is an Investment Tsunami (at Seeking Alpha)

by: John Petersen November 30, 2008 | about stocks: John Petersen About this author: Alternative Energy Storage: An Investment Tsunami Change often comes as a surprise because it develops while we’re focused on other issues and...

Staccato Announces Merger with Artimi and Secures New Financing

Merger and funding enable combined company to productize an integrated portfolio of best-in-class solutions for UWB and Wireless USB applications San Diego, CA – November 27, 2008 – Staccato Communications, an Ultra-Wideband...

Verigy swings to loss, offers weak outlook

SAN FRANCISCO—Automated test equipment vendor Verigy Ltd. Tuesday (Nov. 25) reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of $36 million after posting a profit of $32 million in the same period of 2007. Excluding the impact of...

ISSCC points to tomorrow's cellphone

Chip designs to be described at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in February will show a future for cellphones that pack 32 Gbits of flash, play high def video and range across networks from the oldest GSM to...

Industry downturn pushes X-Fab into red figures

In the third quarter, foundry services vendor X-Fab (Erfurt, Germany) saw sales decline drastically, profit turned into a loss. For the fourth quarter, the company does not expect the situation to get any better.

Firm sues Apple, claims iPhone infringes patent

SAN FRANCISO—A small technology company has filed suit against Apple Inc., claiming the iPhone infringes a recently granted patent for technology used to help mobile devices access the Internet. The suit, filed Monday (Nov. 24)...

The Bomb, or just a lot of firecrackers?

The investment fever for the Chinese semiconductor/electronics industry has been cooling since a year ago, well before the current credit crisis hit the global market. Many industry experts put the blame squarely on the first...

Letter to the Editor: Green engineering and nuclear power

To the editor: I have just re-read, especially in light of the recent election results, the EE Times edition on green engineering, which I think is one of the best to date. Video--Khosla speaks: The fundamental value of new...

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