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Mühlbauer’s TAL15000 line for flip-chip RFID inlay production (photo: Mühlbauer)

Mühlbauer and PragmatIC announce strategic partnership delivering RFID manufacturing solutions


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Mühlbauer (Roding, Germany), a proven technology supplier of RFID and smart label production and personalisation solutions, and PragmatIC (Cambridge, UK), a pioneer in ultra-low cost flexible electronics, announce their strategic partnership to deliver solutions that support the integration of PragmatIC’s unique flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs).

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Intel’s supplier recognition award (photo: Intel)

Brewer Science receives Intel’s preferred quality supplier award


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Brewer Science (Rolla, Missouri) has been recognised by Intel as a recipient of a 2018 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award. The PQS award honours companies that Intel believes have relentlessly pursued excellence and conducted business with resolute professionalism.

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CLEARink and Tianma are working together in the area of next-generation ePaper displays (photo: rawpixel.com)

CLEARink and Tianma announce memorandum of understanding


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Tianma, a Chinese leader in electronic display manufacturing based in Shanghai, and CLEARink Displays (Fremont, California), a leader in next-generation ePaper, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a partnership framework for developing CLEARink’s patented ePaper 2.0 displays. Under the partnership framework, Tianma will develop TFT backplane and module assemblies for CLEARink’s next generation ePaper displays for tablets and other applications.

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imec further expands its analytic capabilities (photo: imec)

Imec to install analytical lab to probe lithography down to 8nm pitch


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Imec (Leuven, Belgium), a leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, and KMLabs (Boulder, Colorado), pioneers and world leaders in ultrafast laser and EUV technology, announce a joint development to create a real-time functional imaging and interference lithography laboratory. This lab will enable imaging in resist on 300mm wafers down to an unprecedented 8nm pitch. Additionally, it will enable time-resolved nanoscale characterisation of complex materials and processes, such as photoresist radiation chemistry, two-dimensional materials, nanostructured systems and devices, emergent quantum materials. 

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Artificial intelligence can help make aircraft even safer (photo: Zuzana Konvalinkova FNUSA-ICRC, Honeywell)

CSEM: Artificial intelligence to monitor pilot drowsiness


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Providing tools to evaluate pilots’ fatigue state: this is the aim of the Clean Sky project HIPNOSIS. Coordinated by CSEM (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and under the guidance of Honeywell, the project will combine artificial intelligence (AI) with aeronautics expertise, contributing to the advent of next-generation cockpits. Consisting of smart cameras and wearable electronics, a safety kit will enable the real-time detection of signs of drowsiness, thus improving fatigue-risk management.

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