ASML: if we can’t ship it to China, we’ll ship it somewhere else

Whether ASML should be allowed to sell EUV scanners to China may be a geopolitical hot-button issue, the company itself is rather indifferent on it. Its scanners will sell out one way or another.

Bits&Chips Machine Learning Conference

After a successful first edition with some 100 attendees, Bits&Chips will organize the Machine Learning Conference again on 11 March in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Meet specialists and industrials who apply machine learning or are interested in doing so. The program will be available soon, so mark your calendar.

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

Lightyears away from production

Despite the wave of excitement behind Lightyear’s hybrid solar/electric vehicle prototype, the Helmond-based startup still has much to prove to deliver on promises of mass production. As the timeline continues to shrink, will the Lightyear One ever make it to the market?

In other news

Huawei CEO to the US: bring it on (CNN)

Musk: SpaceX will send NASA astronauts to space in Q2 (TNW)

Crowdfunding keeps German solar car startup in business (Bloomberg)

AI is not big data analytics

Artificial intelligence doesn’t require the same preconditions as data analytics. Instead, you can start with AI today, just using the data that you have available.

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