Bits&Chips

Imec senior fellow Eric Beyne geeft op 22 mei op de Benelux Heterogeneous Integration Conference een keynotepresentatie. Bits&Chips ging alvast bij hem langs om te praten over advanced packaging en Erics vakgebied, 3D systeemintegratie. 

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ASML Corporate Fellow Arie den Boef is the driving force behind Yieldstar, a metrology instrument that is indispensable in advanced chip manufacturing. Bits&Chips speaks with Arie about a quarter century of Yieldstar and the joy and challenges of research and development in close collaboration with customers.

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Tusk-IC develops the transmitter and receiver chips for dishes that can communicate with satellites in low Earth orbit. This will open up a market that is currently dominated by Starlink, Elon Musk’s system.

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In de derde aflevering over modulariteit praat Bits&Chips met Frank Rood over de bedrijfscultuur die nodig is om het beste te halen uit modulair werken.

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In de tweede aflevering over modulariteit praat Bits&Chips met Frank Rood over het kiezen van de juiste modules en hoe je projecten modulair maakt.

In the second episode on modularity, Bits&Chips talks to Frank Rood about choosing the right modules and how to make projects modular.

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Bits&Chips praat met Frank Rood over modulair werken. In deze eerste aflevering gaan we terug naar de basis, waarom zou je modulair willen werken en wat is het precies? 

Bits&Chips talks with Frank Rood about modular working. In this first episode, we go back to basics: why would you want to work modularly, and what exactly is it?

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Matthias Wissert, head of R&D at Trumpf, about the changes in the engineering culture at the German machine and laser developer in the last twelve years - driven in part by the collaboration with ASML.

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Marcel Pelgrom proposes to invest 199 million euros in a new Dutch chip measurement lab.

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Ale Sytsma is one of the last three ASML employees with a Philips background who will retire this year. He installed the first PAS 2000 waferstepper at the very first customer, IBM in Burlington (US). In this interview (in Dutch), he talks about the early days of stepper development at Philips and ASML and his adventures at Big Blue.

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ASML and Trumpf both have different systems engineering approaches, deeply rooted in their organization. The requirements for lowering costs nicely show this. Jonathan Muller talks about it in this podcast.  

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