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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.
Opinion
Industry policy now
As traditional Dutch money-making industries erode, there’s an alarming lack of urgency in fostering new ones, Anton Duisterwinkel argues.
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.
Analysis
Four deal-killing obstacles to Qualcomm’s rumored take-over of Intel
Financials, patents, regulators and Intel’s bleeding manufacturing arm make the rumored acquisition an unlikely prospect.
Interview
“When I talk about my own experiences, my trainees are all ears”
Jack Leijssen enjoys training mainly because participants in his “Signal integrity” workshop recognize the problems from his world. He especially wants to get people to think differently because electromagnetic phenomena often go against intuition.
Background
Behind the bearing: using advanced software to simulate real-life working conditions
SKF, an industry leader in bearing design and manufacturing, is working with consultants from Alten to build software tools that transform how one of engineering’s most used and crucial components is designed, tested and maintained.
Background
Understanding the benefits of Rust
Rust, with its guarantee of memory safety, marks its place as a promising programming language. If you’re wondering whether you should invest your time in Rust, computer programming enthusiast Kris van Rens has a highly focused training for you at High Tech Institute.
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Background
Event-driven systems in manufacturing
Combining an event-driven architecture and a unified namespace is a powerful mechanism to make smart manufacturing work. The event-driven architecture ensures that important events are handled in real time. At the same time, the unified namespace provides a data and event structure to easily manage and monitor the whole environment.
Editorial
Nearfield far from becoming the new ASML
Rotterdam-based Nearfield Instruments was recently hailed by the press as a future billion-dollar company, but René Raaijmakers doesn’t see that happening anytime soon.
Background
“Quick adoption of hybrid bonding with an entry at 10-micron pitches”
Back-end technology occupies an increasing part of the value chain for advanced chip systems. At the recent 3D & Systems Summit in Dresden, Bits&Chips spoke with Vishal Saroha, an analyst at the Yole Group, about advanced packaging trends and hybrid bonding.
Editorial
‛The Netherlands’ is going to buy Lionix, but at what price?
Game theorists can feast on the valuation of Dutch photonics darling Lionix.
Analysis
No done deal for Nearfield
Nearfield, the shoo-in of the AFM chip metrology market, actually finds itself in a highly competitive environment with both established players and a serious challenger, Britain’s Infinitesima. ASML is also developing measurement technology that competes with the Rotterdam company.
Editorial
Sorry Brainport, K&S momentarily has its sights fixed on Silicon Valley
Kulicke & Soffa’s decision to take a hard look at its Eindhoven operations should also – and perhaps especially – be viewed from the paranoid perspective in which the back-end has to operate.
News
Tech takes center stage in Draghi’s Marshall Plan for Europe
Europe’s tech industry needs to flourish to stave off the “slow agony” of decline, the chief European technocrat says.