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Kulicke & Soffa sells Eindhoven litho operations to Onto
Onto Innovation is acquiring Kulicke & Soffa’s litho team. This puts the Liteq business in the hands of an equipment manufacturer with a proven track record in the back-end.
Opinion
The true SME doesn’t exist
There’s a lot of enthusiasm to support innovation at SMEs, without considering that the needs of these firms vary widely, argues Rix Groenboom.
News
Deteriorating industrial and IoT markets take NXP by surprise
Automotive isn’t doing great either.
Video
Bits&Chips talks to Marcel Pelgrom (part 1)
In a series of four interviews (in Dutch), 20-year Bits&Chips columnist Marcel Pelgrom looks back on his professional career.
Interview
EDA veteran Korthorst sinks teeth in integrated-photonics manufacturing
Trading in his position at EDA firm Synopsys to take the helm at Dutch integrated-photonics foundry-in-the-making New Origin, Twan Korthorst aims to ‘semiconductorize’ integrated-photonics technology and manufacturing.
Interview
Turning feelings into frameworks
In a relatively short period, Strypes Portugal grew very fast. This meant that a new generation of project leads had to push the software development company forward. It asked High Tech Institute to host a four-day in-company training course in Porto to sharpen their leadership skills. “Our project leads had the right energy but lacked formal leadership training. This course gave them that.”
News
DNA gets competition as preferred molecular data storage medium
Researchers are making headway to conveniently access information stored in synthetic polymers.
In memoriam
Erik Loopstra (1957-2024), unrelenting motor of ASML’s machine development
With the death of Erik Loopstra, ASML and Zeiss lose one of their great system architects and inventors. The engineer with Frisian roots has more than 280 patents to his name. “All the important ASML products bear Erik’s stamp.”
News
ASML CEO: “Without AI, the market today would be very sad”
As most chipmakers keep their foot on the brake, 2025 isn’t shaping up to be what ASML had hoped for.
Interview
The more heterogeneous, the more challenging
Combining components and materials makes products in high-tech systems increasingly heterogeneous. As a result, the behavior and failure mechanisms of these products are becoming more complex. Research into reliability and lifetime therefore requires combining disciplines. This should be done at Eindhoven University of Technology’s High-Tech Systems Center (HTSC), says Olaf van der Sluis. “As a mechanical engineer, I like to work with physicists, chemists and electrical engineers.”
Background
Inspiration for intelligent control
In the major European IMOCO4.E project, coordinated by Sioux Technologies and concluded last month, work was done on intelligent control systems for various sectors, from medical technology to mining. Building blocks were developed and tested for communication, sensorics and vision, motion control, digital twins and AI applications.
Analysis
German auto industry finds itself in perfect storm
The German auto industry, with its focus on luxury cars, faces a different challenge than other European competitors, a German report says.
Editorial
A party of white men no more
Let the speaker diversity at the Bits&Chips Event be a small incentive for the whole of high tech.
Editorial
Can the world risk a TSMC leading-edge monopoly?
As Intel falters and Samsung struggles, it’s no longer an outrageous question whether high-end silicon manufacturing should fall to a single company.