Electro Ramblings

IT website ZDNet has undergone a complete redesign, launching this morning with a radical makeover of its pages. After launching a huge suite of blogs during the last two years – which led to huge increases in traffic – ZDNet has now gone the whole hog with Web 2.0. The site include loads of social networking features and nice features ...

Costs, and not just performance, may be the driving factor behind the uptake of silicon-on-insulator, according to an interesting piece by Richard Wilson on Electronics Weekly, where he asks Is silicon-on-insulator technology mainstream? SOI on a chip from IBM Microprocessor developer ARM is quickly establishing itself as the core provider of libraries to the semiconductor industry, and has recently signed ...

Over at Electronic News, the US-based sister publication of Electronics Weekly, they’ve got a run down of the week’s winners and losers in the electronics industry. It’s interesting to note that the EDA firms are doing well, due to increased design activity – which can only bode well for the future of the whole industry. The piece also points out ...