TU Delft students shatter the competition with sustainable glass speaker

In a search to help mitigate the buildup of electronic waste, a group of TU Delft students teamed up to create a fully recyclable home audio system: a speaker made from glass, which earned them a national first-place award for the 2020 James Dyson Award.

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

Funding for large-scale research infrastructure “insufficient”

Keynote by ASML at the Digital Twin Conference

On 4 November, the online Digital Twin Conference will take place. The keynote by Ignacio Alonso and Helen Kardan will introduce ASML’s vision and dream for digitalization of ASML’s Twinscan products, an enabler for future societal and industrial progress. Get your online ticket now to receive access to the livestream and the presentation videos (on demand).

Effect Photonics’ optical transceivers tune in to the market

It’s been quite the journey, but Effect Photonics is finally ready to take the telecom market by storm with its tunable optical transceivers. In doing so, it will give the Dutch Photondelta integrated photonics ecosystem a most welcome boost, too.

Keynote by TNO-ESI, Philips & Thales

The next edition of the Software-Centric Systems Conference will be an online conference on 5 November. The full conference program is now available. The keynote speech, “Complex software-centric systems require interface modeling,” will be delivered by Jozef Hooman (TNO-ESI), Daan van der Munnik (Philips) & Pepijn Noltes (Thales). Register now for an online ticket, which includes access to the livestream and the on-demand videos.

In other news

Funding coming for 1,000 scientists delayed by pandemic (Delta)

Spinach gives fuel cells a power-up (IEEE Spectrum)

ASM’s CFO, Peter van Bommel, to retire (Evertiq)

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