Pharrowtech emits mm-wave fixed wireless for broadband internet

As demand for broadband internet network capacity skyrockets, DSL – the legacy phone line system – is headed straight into a brick wall. For this dilemma, the Imec spin-off Pharrowtech is proposing a new take on an old technology: fixed wireless access.

Fine-tuning the design of piezoelectric transducers

They are compact, reliable, self-generating, and can be found in various industries: piezoelectric transducers. The design of such devices is a multiphysics problem involving electric current, pressure acoustics, mechanics, etc. Want to know how to improve the performance of your piezoelectric transducer? Read more!

Headlines

ASML bags 4.3 billion dollar EUV order from Hynix

A peak inside Samsung’s EUV-made DRAM chips

Eleo gets recharged with Lumipol investment

Holst Centre breaks through with next-generation ultrasound monitor

ASML and Imec take EUV patterning to the limit

VLSI goes quantum in EU Flagship project

Elusive amorphous perovskites may increase solar cell efficiency

How AI-assisted development delivers on the promise of IoT

With an AI-assisted development approach, enterprises will benefit from hands-on mentoring for new developers with AI-assisted next-step suggestions, increased developer productivity and capacity and decreased time and cost impact of defects. Learn more about this topic from Johan den Haan, CTO of Mendix, at the Software-Centric Systems Conference in Eindhoven on 25 September.

The expat’s guide to working in Dutch high tech

From an endless loop of deliberations to receiving criticism that can sound downright rude, when you’re new to the Netherlands, the Dutch work culture can seem totally weird.

In other news

Another EUV-chip powered phone to be unveiled (GSM Arena)

Elon Musk: computers will surpass us “in every single way” (CNBC)

After Walmart, Amazon too blames Tesla solar panels for roof fires (Carscoops)

AI is not about data sets

Machine learning and deep learning is about building a DevOps system where the ML/DL components are constantly improved and retrained based on the most recent data collected using the latest deployment. Getting that system right is the real challenge.

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