Email: Is there still room for startups in WSN? (EETimes) A postgraduate student from Newscastle in the northeast of England writes asking if there is room left for startups to make an impact in wireless sensor networks. If so, he asks that the industry to save a space for him while he finishes his PhD.
GlobalFoundries' plans for 2010 capex of $2.5 billion (EETimes) Abu Dhabi backed foundry GlobalFoundries Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) is planning to spend $2.5 billion to increase its 300-mm wafer manufacturing capacity by 50 percent in 2010, according to Udo Nothelfer, company vice president and general manager of Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany.