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News Japan’s export restrictions threaten to marginalize Nikon in top litho segmentExport restrictions announced by Japan’s Trade Ministry do not bode well for Nikon’s immersion scanner business. |
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Headline ASML mulls shared research facility on TUE campusBased on an official announcement that hasn’t been released yet, Eindhovens Dagblad reports that the plans are concrete. |
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Interview (Super)conducting research into a compact all-in-one antennaThe size of a milk carton, a quantum RF antenna has the potential of replacing a wide range of traditional, much larger antennas. At the joint lab of Thales and CNRS, near Paris, Juan Trastoy and his fellow researchers are putting their award-winning innovation on the path to maturity. |
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Headline Sirius localizes on €12M in series B fundingEindhoven-based Sirius Medical has secured 12 million euros to accelerate the worldwide growth of its Pintuition tumor localization solution and support further product development. |
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Headline Nexperia expects disaster for Newport fab after a forced sale“Newport would be left with only a single remaining client, and no immediate pathway to return to profitability,” legal filings say. |
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Headline Twente laser chip fires white lightUniversity of Twente researchers have found an extremely efficient way to generate white laser light inside a chip. |
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Headline Enzyme conjures electricity out of thin airResearchers from Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne have discovered an enzyme that can ‘burn’ hydrogen to generate electricity. |
In other news |
| Lightyear reboot gets green light (NL Times) |
| Rocket-powered spaceplane takes flight (Dawn Aerospace) |
| Intel CEO sees ‘green shoots’ emerging (EE Times) |
| Retired Applied CEO Jim Morgan receives Imec’s Lifetime of Innovation Award (press release) |
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Bits&Chips Event |
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Opinion Export control: high tech meets geopoliticsWhy should the national security of the US dictate export control regulations of the Low Countries, Erik Jan Marinissen and his famous co-author wonder. There are other factors to consider. |
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Opinion Protagonist rule #4: Question everything including yourselfWe need to be intellectually honest with ourselves and periodically reevaluate our beliefs and assumptions. |
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Headline Netherlands lands NATO Innovation Fund headquartersThe NIF will invest 1 billion euros in early-stage startups and other VC funds for the development of advanced technologies with military uses. |
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Headline Fab equipment spending looking at 2024 recovery after slowdown in 2023Global fab equipment spending for front-end facilities is expected to decrease 22 percent year-over-year. Next year will see a recovery, with spending rising 21 percent. |
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Analysis Gordon Moore (1929-2023) saw the future – but did he also create it?Did Gordon Moore, may he rest in peace, set the exponential cost improvement of integrated circuits in motion or was it inevitable anyway? |