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European Commission launches €45B chip pushThe European Chips Act aims to support local R&D efforts and relax state-aid rules for funding semiconductor manufacturing facilities. |
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Biosensing platform integrates molecular components into CMOS circuitThe US company Roswell Biotechnologies has wired single molecules into standard CMOS circuitry, creating what it calls the world’s first molecular electronics chip. |
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Data, data everywhere and not a drop to drinkAngelo Hulshout has the ambition to bring the benefits of production agility to the market and set up a new business around that. How to get the necessary input data to meet the needs of the factory management? |
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Get your freshly baked graphene in DelftDelft-based 2D materials foundry Applied Nanolayers is seeing “a drastic increase in demand” for its wafer-sized graphene sheets, used by customers to manufacture next-generation sensing devices. |
In other news |
| Tomtom sees lower car production weigh on recovery (Reuters) |
| Intel promotes RISC-V, pledges $1B to help chip startups (Tom’s Hardware) |
| Companies are racing to make self-driving cars. But why? (Washington Post) |
| How this Tesla-busting battery could be the Holy Grail for electric flight (Forbes) |
| Demystifying machine learning systems (MIT News) |
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Bits&Chips podcasts: Cees MichielsenOur editors talk to the innovators driving the high-tech industry. Listen (in Dutch) to researchers, developers and decision-makers speak about trends, technology, business and their motivations. In this week’s edition of the Bits&Chips podcast, Cees Michielsen on the trends in requirements engineering. |
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Portfolio management: not so easyThere are much better ways to guide project portfolio management than using business cases, says Han Schaminee. |
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Platform lesson #7: Constantly optimize commodity for TCOOver time, the commodity functionality in platforms tends to consume a larger and larger part of the R&D resources. As a counter, we need to proactively engage in activities to reduce the total cost of ownership for the commodity. |