Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers
Vaclav Smil, writing at IEEE Spectrum: There is a fundamental difference between what can be designed and built and what makes sense. History provides a lesson in the shape of record-setting behemoths that have never since been equaled. The Egyptian.....»»
ChatGPT makes materials research much more efficient
The artificial intelligence developer OpenAI promises to reshape the way people work and learn with its new chatbot called ChatGPT. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in fact, the large language model is already aiding materials engineers, who.....»»
India to counterbalance China
Compared to other industry sectors, IC design has been more impacted by low birth rates and a lack of local IT manpower. In India, there are 56,000 IC design engineers; in the US, there are 86,000; in China, there are 121,000; and in Taiwan there are.....»»
AutoCAD empowers designers and engineers, and it’s on sale for April
For April, Autodesk is running a sale on select products, including AutoCAD. This is the perfect time to grab the world's leading design software at a discount......»»
Stellantis designers use concepts as brand ‘manifestos’
Design chief Ralph Gilles said concepts help establish the company's direction as it enters the era of electric vehicles......»»
IC designers facing uphill battle in demanding foundry quote cuts
With TSMC also reportedly to slow down capacity expansions in Taiwan, IC design houses will find it even more difficult to expect a downturn in their chips foundry costs, according to industry sources......»»
Conquering modern data stack complexities
How are data teams conquering the complexity of the modern data stack? Unravel Data has asked 350+ data scientists, engineers, analysts, and others who rely upon real-time data insights for decision-making to share their practices. “For the third y.....»»
Rethinking the incandescent lightbulb
A team of material scientists and engineers affiliated with a host of institutions in China took a new look at the incandescent light bulb and found a way to improve its efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group.....»»
Arm, Intel Foundry team up for leading-edge SoC designs
Arm and Intel Foundry Services (IFS) have announced a multigeneration collaboration in which chip designers will be able to build low-power system-on-chips (SoC) using Intel 18A technology. The collaboration will first focus on mobile SoC designs, bu.....»»
Here’s the tech used to create a nearly 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong cabinet
The JAMMA adapters, superguns, and low-lag upscalers needed for Kong-scale Kong. Enlarge / We thank the curators and designers at the Strong Museum of Play for including a human-scale joystick set at ground level. While more accu.....»»
SpaceX’s Starship vehicle is ready to fly, just waiting for a launch license
SpaceX engineers have a million questions about the performance of these vehicles. Enlarge / Starship is seen stacked on top of the Super Heavy rocket on April 5, 2023. (credit: SpaceX) This weekend SpaceX engineers comp.....»»
Fully recyclable printed electronics ditch toxic chemicals for water
Engineers at Duke University have produced the world's first fully recyclable printed electronics that replace the use of chemicals with water in the fabrication process. By bypassing the need for hazardous chemicals, the demonstration points down a.....»»
IC designers can hardly expect foundry partners to cut quotes soon
It remains one of the major market concerns as to when IC designers can see their manufacturing costs move downward, but one thing for sure is that their foundry partners in Taiwan will have little willingness to reduce quotes in the short term excep.....»»
Lucid"s customer experience chief leaves amid layoffs
Lucid employees, from the assembly line to software engineers, announced their departures online after the EV startup said it was laying off about 1,300 workers......»»
DUNE collaboration tests new technology for second detector module
In recent months, the neutrino research facility at the European laboratory CERN has been bustling with activity. Scientists, engineers and technicians from around the world have gathered there to assemble a large prototype of a new particle detector.....»»
New nanoparticles can perform gene-editing in the lungs
Engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have designed a new type of nanoparticle that can be administered to the lungs, where it can deliver messenger RNA encoding useful proteins......»»
HPC applications most promising future outlet for IC designers in Taiwan
Taiwan's IC design industry has reached a critical crossroads, with an unclear development direction, worsening talent shortage, confusing government policies, and shrinking academic research momentum all requiring cooperation from all sectors to ove.....»»
Shod horses exhibit marked improvement in gait quality
The right pair of shoes can make all the difference. This is as true for horses as it is for people, according to new research from animal scientists and engineers from UConn......»»
Using bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into a polyester
A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a scalable way to use bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into a polyester. In their paper, published in Proceedings of the National Acad.....»»
Modern origami method creates glass shapes by folding
The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended the centuries-old practice to produce intricate shapes made of glass or other har.....»»
Engineers develop dual-purpose laser and LED device based on colloidal quantum dot technology
A Los Alamos National Laboratory team has overcome key challenges toward technologically viable high-intensity light emitters based on colloidal quantum dot technology, resulting in dual-function devices that operate as both an optically excited lase.....»»