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Editorial
ASML’s 2030 sales forecast is built on shaky foundations
AI-driven sales are a rather unreliable source of revenue for semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the medium term.
Opinion
Techno-optimism: space colonization
Thanks to the surprisingly rapid progress of private, commercial rocket companies, Jan Bosch sees humanity becoming an interplanetary species during this century.
News
Philips’ MEMS foundry to continue as Xiver
Investor Cees Meeuwis is determined to make Philips’ MEMS business a commercial success. As an independent foundry, he expects Xiver to substantially expand its customer base.
Analysis
The EU Chips Act, act 2: a pivot to European strengths?
The new European Commission taking office is likely to pay more attention to the needs of Europe’s indigenous chipmakers, but it won’t throw out expensive technological sovereignty ambitions such as establishing domestic leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing operations.
Video
Bits&Chips talks to Marcel Pelgrom (part 4)
In a series of four interviews (in Dutch), 20-year Bits&Chips columnist Marcel Pelgrom looks back on his professional career.
News
VSParticle partners with Meta to speed up cleantech material development
Combining VSParticle’s versatile nanoparticle printer with Meta’s AI models to find and test new materials helps in the fight against climate change.
Background
Be future-ready with the power of augmented engineering
Augmented engineering will bring a paradigm shift in the traditional working methods of engineers, who will need to unlearn the familiar and stimulate innovative thinking.
Video
Bits&Chips talks to Marcel Pelgrom (part 3)
In a series of four interviews (in Dutch), 20-year Bits&Chips columnist Marcel Pelgrom looks back on his professional career.
Analysis
ASML puts peak litho rumors to rest
Perhaps the number of exposures will peak one day, but it won’t be anytime soon, says ASML.
Analysis
Draghi’s industrial policy misses the mark: Europe must move up the value chain
European industry is stuck in mid-tech while pressure from new competitors mounts. Industrial policy should focus on creating new champions, not propping up the old ones, argues economist Daniel Gros.
Nieuws
Nanowire transistor escapes the Boltzmann tyranny
A fundamental limit on CMOS energy efficiency has been broken without major compromises on other performance aspects.
Background
The power of direct air capture and IoT in solving supply challenges
Skytree is driving the circular economy by transforming CO2 from a waste product into a valuable resource, extracting it from the atmosphere at the location where it’s needed. In addition, the company’s modular technology is also ideal for large-scale carbon storage projects, generating negative emissions. Together with Alten, Skytree has implemented IoT solutions to solve challenges in the remote management and maintenance of its CO2 capture devices.
Video
Bits&Chips talks to Marcel Pelgrom (part 2)
In a series of four interviews (in Dutch), 20-year Bits&Chips columnist Marcel Pelgrom looks back on his professional career.
Background
Black Semiconductor – beyond-Moore production in Europe?
Aachen-based deep-tech startup Black Semiconductor has the ambition to enable mass production of graphene photonics in silicon semiconductors, in full compliance with industry standards.