Tanner

Nearly a year after they released the 11.2 version of Tanner Tools, they are releasing a new version 12.2. Why am I posting this? Because they were one of the first to implement the PSP model (I remind you that PSP was elected on november 2005 by the CMC as the new standard). However, I'd like to point out that no effort has been put into implementing the other finalist (HiSim) or even the BSIM5. Life is hard for loser models...

Plastic electronics

I've got a mail from a friend (Jamal Deen) with some very important news to all those working on plastic electronics: it seems that Plastic Logic has got some small cash (around 100.000.000'00 USD) to start a production facility in Dresden, Germany. They are planning to build the first commercial production plant of plastic electronics, starting in 2008 (yes, that is next year!). Look at their press release here.

The other news is that Polymer Vision (Philips' spin-off) will be starting the production of rollable displays as soon as this same year. See the press release here.

Well, big news for everybody. It seems that we're about to enter a new age in consumer electronics, that of flexible electronics. Changes are very likely to be huge, but this is good, don't you agree?