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Luc Van den hove, CEO at imec (photo: imec)

EU project TEMPO targets low-power chips for AI applications based on emerging memory technologies

Friday 05 July 2019
Companies / Markets

Imec (Leuven, Belgium), a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents TEMPO: a unique cross-border collaboration between 19 research and industrial partners, funded by ECSEL Joint Undertaking which supports public-private partnerships in the EU. The three-year programme aims at developing process technology and hardware platforms leveraging emerging memory technologies for neuromorphic computing for future applications in mobile devices that need complex machine-learning algorithms. It is a one-of-a-kind collaboration effort to enable applications that now need cloud-based server racks, to be executed within battery-powered mobile devices such as cars and smartphones (at the edge of the internet-of-things).

Brewer Science offers a wide range of printing capabilities for flexible and hybrid electronics (photo: Brewer Science)

Brewer Science named a top workplace

Tuesday 25 June 2019
Companies / Markets

Brewer Science (Rolla, Missouri) has been awarded a 2019 Top Workplace honour by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Energage, LLC, an employee research and consulting firm, has partnered with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the past seven years to determine top workplaces in the area based on anonymous employee survey feedback. Companies on the Top Workplace list demonstrate strong values, effective leadership, clear direction and motivated employees.

A packaging solution with PragmatIC’s technology (photo: PragmatIC)

Chinese packaging company Baoshen joins growing customer list for PragmatIC’s flexible integrated circuits

Monday 24 June 2019
Companies / Markets

PragmatIC (Cambridge, UK), a leader in ultra-low-cost flexible electronics, has announced that BSN, part of the Baoshen Group, has placed an order for its recently released ConnectIC products. This adds to an already strong order book for PragmatIC’s unique flexible integrated circuits that are considered to be the ideal solution for adding intelligence to mass-market consumer goods and packaging.

A foldable OLED display (photo: Holst Centre)

SALDtech receives further funding to enable mass production of next-generation foldable OLED displays

Wednesday 19 June 2019
Companies / Markets

SALDtech recently announced that it has closed a second investment round with Innovation Industries, a leading high-tech VC fund and BOM, Brabant Development agency. TNO, through its subsidiary Holst Centre, has invested over 10 years in developing a new technology called spatial atomic layer deposition to produce large area ultra-thin layers with world class performance. SALDtech, a spin-off of TNO, will use the investment to develop and build production equipment to be integrated into the production lines of next generation flexible OLED displays for mobile phones, tablets, TVs and more.

Display technology from Plastic Logic (photo: Plastic Logic)

E Ink further strengthens collaboration with Plastic Logic

Tuesday 18 June 2019
Companies / Markets

E Ink Holdings (Hsinchu, Taiwan), a leading innovator of electronic ink technology, announced a strategic investment in Plastic Logic HK, the newly formed fabless designer and manufacturer of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs), focused on organic TFT (OTFT) technology that is suitable for developing flexible EPD devices in wearable applications.