Reparations

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.

Mouser now stocks Xilinx

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).

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”

Dutch TUs stumble further in 2022 THE rankings

Thrive in the digital transformation

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.

Asperitas looks to flood the IT cooling industry

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.

In other news

Start-ups: job growth engine in the Netherlands (Dealroom)

Fourth AI university professor appointed in Amsterdam (UvA)

Up close with the Taycan, Porsche’s first electric car (The Verge)

How to develop software

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.

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