Getting the data out

Angelo Hulshout has taken up the challenge to bring the benefits of production agility to the market and set up a new business around that. The first challenge: getting the data out of the factory.

Headlines

Airbus NL links with Swedish Space Corp for space-to-ground optical communications

Automotive Campus on its way to private ownership

Frits van Hout to leave ASML

BOM boosts Eindhoven’s Antenna Company with a big line of credit

Philips captures Capsule

Eindhoven tech leaders open the gate to startup success

Etulipa flashes first full-color electrowetting display

ASML and ASMI stand to gain from huge TSMC capex boost

Victor van der Chijs steps down from UT executive board

Grai Matter Labs launches low-latency vision inferencer

Braincreators to launch surveillance anonymizer at Schiphol

Demcon delves into sports performance data with Johan Sports acquisition

Bits&Chips themes 2021

We have limited the number of print editions in 2021. Therefore, we are making a selection of the themes that fit the high-tech market the most. Please let us know which theme(s) you would like us to publish in a print edition next year via bits-chips.nl/themes.

Power duo puts all their effort into Eindhoven Engine

With the High Tech Systems Center’s integration into Eaisi, figureheads Katja Pahnke and Maarten Steinbuch think it’s time to hand over the baton. They now have their hands free for their next Apollo project: Eindhoven Engine.

In other news

Philips said to shortlist Asian suitors for $4B unit (Bloomberg)

China won’t meet its chip goals (IC Insights)

UK competition authority to investigate Arm-Nvidia deal (Electronics Weekly)

Teledyne to acquire Flir in a $8B deal (Evertiq)

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Ecosystem repositioning

The digital transformation almost always requires strategic repositioning in your business ecosystem. This is complex and calls for careful strategizing and execution. The alternative is that both you and the ecosystem get disrupted.

Building bridges

There’s ample industrialization support within the hype cycle up until the peak of inflated expectations and following the plateau of productivity. In between, the trough of disillusionment causes these two phases of innovation transfer to be disconnected. As a result, a lot of academic value gets stuck.

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