Harnessing lithium’s explosive chemistry for better batteries

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the fathers of the lithium-ion battery. Together, they found a way to channel lithium’s explosive nature into something useful.

Multiphysics simulations for 5G applications

SoCs and RFICs for 5G smartphones and networks need to manage huge amounts of antenna data and offer significantly high processing capabilities in thermally and power-constrained environments. ANSYS multiphysics simulations solve challenges across the spectrum of chip, package and system. Download this white paper.

Headlines

ICT sheds minority stake in Greenflux

Automotive IC market share slips in 2020 after steady gains since 1998

Arcobel and Core Vision acquired by partner Dual Inventive

Philips and Elekta enhance partnership for personalized oncology care

Demcon delves into the defense domain

ASML suspects stolen IP is being commercialized in China

Digital twin as a basis for model-based product development

Reaching a high level of autonomy in systems or systems of systems is a key element of Industry 4.0. During the Digital Twin Conference in Eindhoven on 31 October, Jan Post (Philips) and Christian Kehrer (Altair) will show how to structure cyber-physical systems, digital twins, model-based systems engineering and sensor data in an industrial environment.

Record number of orders mark next phase of EUV adoption

The first ‘EUV devices’ are on the market, but that’s only the beginning. The number of EUV layers in chips will keep increasing and that’s good news for ASML – but also a bit of a challenge.

Future perfect: predictive maintenance and artificial intelligence (AI)

Kontron’s powerful rackmount server KISS 4U V3 SKX with high-end GPUs helps realize growing potential of AI-enabled predictive maintenance for energy and industrial automation. This use case informs about trends and application-oriented solutions.

In other news

Infineon flies under the radar on Google’s Soli (EE Times)

How Pebble smartwatches are getting a second life (Ifixit)

America’s first commercial drone delivery service launched (Medium)

Will the IoT be secure?

The honest answer is probably no. But there’s no need to despair. We all live our daily lives making reasonable assessments of how to stay out of trouble. This applies to the IoT as well.

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