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Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again

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Malone and Budman were speaking as part of the Computer History Museum's CHM Live series of virtual events. I was at an event where a guy from H-P showed quality charts, Silicon Valley chips vs. But that has suddenly changed. There's a scramble to build fabs outside Taiwan, but that will take two to three years.

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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Lu was inspired to conduct research in improving efficiency when he was an undergraduate student at the National Taiwan University , in Taipei, where his studies included courses in algorithms and data structures. He has also been involved in several technology challenge events. “I still do research, of course," Lu notes. "In

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VisIC and ZF partner on R&D effort to develop EV inverter based on GaN semiconductor technology; focus on 400V

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The inverter—which converts DC power from the traction battery to AC power that drives the motor—is a key part of the electric drive chain. This conversion comes from a complex sequence of switching events which reconstruct an AC signal from the DC output of the battery.

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