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Opinion US-Dutch ‘deal’ on export controls reeks of coercionWith powerful unilateral measures dangling over the talks, the Netherlands had little choice. |
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Headline CTO: ASML needs to double down on customer valueCost containment will be essential to “make sure that the appetite for shrink remains strong,” CTO Martin van den Brink says in ASML’s 2022 Annual Report. |
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Headline TNO spinoff starts printed-electronics production facilityTracxon is opening a site for the mass production of hybrid printed electronics. The spinoff from TNO and Holst Centre targets automotive, healthcare and consumer applications. |
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News Wafer-scale growth of 2D materials paves way for industrial integrationWhen confined to tiny pockets during growth, 2D materials play nice with silicon substrates. That’s good news for the future of chip scaling. |
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Headline Dash to reshore IC manufacturing exacerbates talent shortageThe semiconductor industry will need to hire an additional 1 million employees by 2030, according to a report by Deloitte. |
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Headline These are the world’s top semiconductor buyersApple is by far the world’s largest buyer of chips, although its spending decreased last year, according to market research firm Gartner. |
In other news |
| NXP goes in-house for application processor NPU (EE Times) |
| South Korea boosts its AI chip industry with $642M (Techcrunch) |
| “Musk doesn’t mind bankruptcy if a rival builds a better car” (CNBC) |
| Saving the big bang horn antenna (IEEE Spectrum) |
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Opinion Ask the headhunterI’m Dutch, but I’ve worked abroad all my life. Recently, Linkedin pointed me to an opening for a CEO at a little VC-backed high-tech company in the Netherlands, for which you’re the hiring agent. I think I’m an excellent fit. |
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Opinion PD fallacy #8: the bill of materials has the highest priorityInstead, we need to shift to lifetime value by monetizing continuous value delivery and platformizing our entire product portfolio. |
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Background The Unified Namespace – to boldly go where we should have gone beforeAngelo Hulshout takes a deeper dive into Industry 4.0, starting with the Unified Namespace, a concept that’s slowly becoming a carrier for really smart solutions. |
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Background Natlab – a lost loveDespite Philips’ decline, former researcher Marcel Pelgrom believes that the company would still benefit from a Natlab-style industrial research laboratory. |