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Analysis The Western chip industry: fat, dumb and spoiledIf ASML’s machine deliveries to China in the second quarter of this year are the first ripples of a new race in chip technology and IC manufacturing, the Western semiconductor industry may be in for quite a storm. |
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Headline Astrape Networks raises €1.6M for energy-saving data center PICsThe Eindhoven-based company founded last year develops photonic integrated circuits that help data centers save energy by eliminating all but one electrical-optical conversion. |
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Headline HyET Solar raises €29M and eyes IPOHyET Solar is completing the 40 MWp thin-film solar panel production facility at its home base in Arnhem and preparing for international scale-up. |
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Headline Lightyear commences small-scale production of solar roofA number of well-known brands are fitting models with a Lightyear roof, which should hit the road in two to three years. |
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Headline Imec’s on-chip drug monitoring device raises €10MFlemish life-sciences startup Axithra combines semiconductor process and photonics knowledge to create an on-chip Raman spectrophotometer to measure drug concentrations in a patient’s blood. |
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News Chinese tech expats in Europe are on a missionEfforts to ‘encourage’ Chinese techies working in Europe to return to the motherland are exceedingly successful, a US intelligence firm finds. |
In other news |
| NXP looking to increase investment in Austin (Evertiq) |
| Regions team up to speed up the expansion of the European semicon industry (EU) |
| Electric cooling could shrink quantum computers (IEEE Spectrum) |
| Sony harvests electromagnetic ‘noise’ and offers milliwatts (EE News) |
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Opinion AI isn’t all about speeds and feedsCommercial success in AI isn’t merely about performance, explains Sander Arts. |
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Opinion There’s no such thing as “the data”Each question we seek to answer and each variable we look to track over time needs specific data to be collected from systems in the field. |
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News Going analog may tame AI’s exploding energy needsIBM came up with an analog AI chip that’s 14 times more energy efficient than the best digital hardware available right now. |
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Headline $53B AI semiconductor market to continue double-digit growthBy 2027, AI chip revenue is expected to be more than double the size of the market in 2023, reaching 119.4 billion dollars. |
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Headline Report: Intel still needs TSMC’s capacity in 2024 and 2025TSMC might land as much as 5.6 billion and 9.7 billion dollars in orders from Intel in 2024 and 2025, respectively, according to a Goldman Sachs Securities report. |
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Analysis Is Huawei’s new phone really ‘sanction defying’?It’s too soon to conclude that China is making great headway in semiconductor manufacturing. |