Dutch Finance Secretary Wopke Hoekstra proposes to set up an investment fund for scientific and technology research. Experience has shown, though, that such a fund isn’t necessarily safe from politicians’ grabby hands.
Xilinx develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of technologies. Specializing in programmable logic devices, Xilinx is the semiconductor company that invented the FPGA, the hardware programmable SoC, and the Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP).
Digitalization is the key disrupter within the high tech industry. In his keynote speech at the Software-Centric Systems Conference, held in Eindhoven on 25 September, Jan Bosch (Chalmers) will discuss the trend of digitalization, the challenges that traditional companies face and the new digital business operating system that companies will need to adopt to maintain their competitiveness.
After development of its immersed cooling system for maritime-based data centers, Haarlem-based clean-tech scale-up Asperitas opted to change course and instead focus on terra firma, looking to paint the data center industry green.
The type of approach to select for developing or evolving functionality depends on several factors. There’s no fixed recipe for this. Instead, you should carefully evaluate the benefits and disadvantages for each approach.