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U-Michigan, IBM collaborate on data-centric high performance computing system

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The collaboration was announced this week in San Jose at the second annual OpenPOWER Summit 2016. The OpenPOWER Foundation , which U-M recently joined, is an open, collaborative, technical community based on IBM’s POWER architecture.

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Tesla widens its legal action against Rivian over alleged theft of battery secrets

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In comparison, Rivian uses 2170 cells from Samsung SDI for the R1T pickup truck and R1S SUV. Rivian formally requested to have Tesla’s claims dismissed in court , though a California state judge in San Jose allowed the case to continue. . Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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Val Miftakhov: As you can imagine, we did a lot of this [comparison] early on as well. With biofuels, if you look at the relative efficiency of converting solar energy into biofuel versus solar energy into hydrogen, it’s not even a comparison, it’s ridiculous, it’s 500 times difference. It makes a lot of sense.