Built-in plumbing cools chips much more efficiently

Integrating a microfluidic cooling system in the heart of a power chip improves cooling performance by a factor of 50, Swiss researchers found.

European Microwave Week 2020

European Microwave Week 2020 is Europe’s largest microwave, RF, wireless and radar event, bringing industry and academia together. Join us at EuMW 2020 on 10-15 January 2021 at Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Take advantage of reduced rates and register now at www.eumweek.com.

Headlines

Kendrion locks up 3T acquisition

Quantum computing unicorn considers European HQ near Imec

Semiconductor boom might turn to glut in 2023, says IDC

The Netherlands joins European chip collaboration

$12M seed round brings Dutch stealth startup Axelera AI to light

Loop Robots cleans up with a $2M seed investment

TU Delft and NFI investigate next-gen forensic photography

Pharrowtech field-tests mm-wave-based fixed wireless access

FREE WEBINAR – A hundred ways your machine learning systems are vulnerable

High Tech Institute and Cydrill invite you for a 45-minute session on 6 October at 17:00 that will give you a thorough overview of how ML applications can be hacked, and what you can do about it. Click here for more info and register now.

No systems engineering without digital engineering

The High Tech Systems Center is building a consortium around digital engineering to work together on continuous improvement of development processes without losing sight of the business aspects.

TU/e hosts international conference on the cybersecurity of the Internet of Things

While the IoT revolution brings enormous benefits to our society and economy, our dependency on this infrastructure also creates serious security threats. To chart the challenges ahead and to explore possible solutions, on 14 and 15 October, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) will host #INTERSCT20, the 2020 edition of the INTERSCT. Conference on Cyber Security of Internet-of-Things.

In other news

Designing a new language for cars (TUE)

Driving behavior less ‘robotic’ thanks to new model (TU Delft)

New nanochannels make lithium batteries charge faster (UT)

Engineering the corona response

In the first half of 2020, the coronavirus brought our complex society to a complete worldwide halt. Perhaps we lost track of some fundamental engineering principles. For sure, we could use them to try to manage the aftermath.

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