Smart moves at ITU to unify home net standards
The HomeGrid Forum, an industry group established to drive industry specifications for home networking, is urging silicon manufacturers to start adopting the G.Hn standard following the decision by the ITU to ratify key elements of the specification for networking via power lines.
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Prototype fuel cell for handsets eyes fivefold run-time boost As part of a research collaboration on miniaturized energy sources, the French Atomic Energy Agency (CEA) and STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva) have prototyped a hydrogen fuel cell for mobile phones that aims to reduce dependency on the use of electrical power supplies to recharge batteries. EE Times' Anne-Francoise Pele Takes a closer look.Click here to learn more.
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Phyworks demos 10G copper interconnects Communications chip specialist Phyworks (Bristol, England) has demonstrated 10Gbits/s rack-to-rack copper interconnects of up to 30 metres using technology it originally developed for the optical module market. EE Times Europe's John Walko gets the story. Click here for details.
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