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December 2010 Issue - EE Times Confidential

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Multi-screen wars: MediaTek/Mstar vs. Qualcomm, Marvell, Nvidia
The larger significance of the merging of Taiwan’s “M Brothers” may have escaped the notice of some western observers.

EET ON THE QT



December 2010

Blueprint for a Smart Grid

Smart grid is the fashionable term for the future of today's collection of aging analog electric utilities. In 2010, it edged closer to reality, thanks in large part to two efforts to articulate technical descriptions for building digital power networks. Steve Widergren, a principal engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, took the reins of the Smart Group Interoperability Panel, a group chartered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to evolve a basic framework released last January.

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