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In the wireless arena, ARM is ahead of Intel in process, architecture and design, and looks likely to stay there for a generation or two.

The Yanks are much better than the Brits at understanding that governments can't do much that is useful.

Could robots evolve autonomously? The HyperNEAT project at Cornell University has put neural-net-based brains inside robotic bodies and programmed the brains to take sensory inputs from the body and use them to figure out how to control the robotic body. Some brains taught themselves how to do it, others didn't.

Bob Widlar was the best circuit designer in the industry's history, Bob Dobkin, who founded Linear Technology with Widlar and Bob Swanson 30 years ago last month, told me earlier in the week.

Blood vessels made using a 3D printer by the Fraunhofer Institute are being shown at this week's Biotechnica Fair in Hanover.

HP intends to have an alternative technology to flash on the market in eighteen months, an alternative to DRAM in three to four years followed by replacement for SRAM, Stan Williams, Senior Fellow at HP, told the IEF2011 meeting in Seville this week.

There was once a genius who was on the founding team of five semiconductor companies.

Robots need encouragement because their evolutionary progress has been agonisingly slow, so the news that a robot has been nominated to carry the Olympic Torch for the 2012 Games will be just the boost the robot community needs.

IBM has kick-started the IC industry on many an occasion with ideas which have re-invigorated the industry.

Wandering through Mallory Square, Key West earlier in the year, the gentleman in the picture suddenly leapt out from what looked like a bush causing the lovely Terri to shriek.

The thing about great CEOs is that they bubble with enthusiasm about what their companies are up to.

Scott Fitzgerald was wrong - there are second acts in American lives and Steve Jobs is the proof of it.

The dark side of the English psyche was exposed by the country's treatment of Alan Turing.

A good guide to Who's Going To Be Who in the tech world is provided by the list of companies which are granted the most US patents.

IBM predicts five life-changing innovations for the next five years.

It would be absurd to expect trains to run on batteries. So why do we expect electric cars to run on batteries?

If an IC can have a romantic history, then CCD - 41 years old this year - must be a romantic chip.