Magazines

On this page, you can find an overview of all Bits&Chips online magazines. Click on the edition to read the full magazine. A premium membership is required to read selected articles.

Read all about the unrelenting Erik Loopstra (1957-2024), system architecting great at ASML and Zeiss. This edition also features analyses, background articles, interviews and opinion pieces about the semicon market, Dutch industry policy, integrated photonics and more.

Read all about the high-tech darlings Lionix and Nearfield. This edition also features analyses, background articles and interviews about the Dutch and European innovation strategies, back-end semicon, integrated photonics, green technology and more.

Read all about the acquisition of Salland Engineering by Advantest. This edition also features analyses, background articles and interviews about the Dutch and European innovation strategies, high-NA and what comes next, model-based development and more.

Read all about Nearfield Instruments penetrating the high-volume chip manufacturing at Samsung. This edition also features background articles about ASML’s intentions for the Netherlands, Intel’s stance on high-NA, TSMC’s production plans and other recent semicon developments, the demises of Robert Dennard, Willy Sansen and Paul Havinga, and more.

Read all about ASML’s high-NA EUV technology is seeping into low-NA tools. This edition also features background articles about a Dutch silicon refining facility, an integrated photonics-based ammonia sensor, a digital diagnostic assistant for complex machines, Intel Foundry, Nvidia, hybrid bonding and other semicon industry developments and more.

Read all about ASML’s first high-NA tool being almost ready for action. This edition also features background articles about Axign’s step-up, Brilliance’s breakthrough and Gallium Semiconductor’s shutdown, the Dutch innovation ecosystem, the semicon market, the AI hype and more.

Read all about ASML’s high-NA which is “clearly the most cost-effective solution”. This edition also features background articles about ASML, complex systems and software engineering, integrated photonics, quantum technology and more.

Read all about ASML in this special leading up to the companies 40th anniversary in 2024. In this edtion we feacture ASML supplier stories as well as background articles about ASML, nanoimprint, integrated-photonics specialist Ampicq, technology nationalism and more. Order a print copy here.

Read all about the last advice of Ewit Roos, CEO of Photon Delta who is stepping down. This edition also features articles about ASML, Besi, artificial intelligence and data science, applied statistics, RF and more.

Read all about electron optics rebels coming up with a new dwarf microsope. This edition also features articles about ASML and the Western chip industry vs. China, software (and) systems engineering, the AI gold rush and more.

Read all about Prodrive launching Peblar brand of highly integrated chargers made in Son. This edition also features articles about the shutdown of ASML’s radioisotope concept, China and the semicon industry, Nexperia, Twente’s chip design wizard Bram Nauta and more.

Read all about the chip market being in trouble, but ASML doing fine. This edition also features articles about the semicon industry, rare earths, artificial intelligence, systems engineering with SysML and more.

Read all about ASML’s medial-isotope brainchild don’t making it to the finish line. This edition also features articles about Gordon Moore, the semicon industry, building advanced antennas, batteries and EV motors, and more.

Read all about model-based testing is starting to gain momentum in high tech. This edition also features articles about the demise of Philips’ Natlab, battery technology, integrated photonics, C++ and Rust, and more.

Read all about Philips research veteran Fred Roozeboom being honored with the Gorden Moore medal. This edition also features articles about the semiconductor industry in general and ASML in particular, the ups and downs of Philips, NXP and Lightyear, silicon photonics, modern C++ and more.