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Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University open joint battery research center; focus on Li-metal and solid-state

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Hyundai Motor Group announced the inauguration of its Joint Battery Research Center with Seoul National University (SNU). This is the first time that a research facility specializing in electric vehicle (EV) batteries has been built within Seoul National University.

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Roskill: Niobium industry looking for a future beyond steel; Li-ion batteries a possibility

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However, the spike in vanadium prices (ferrovanadium prices increased by about 200% in 2018) caused Chinese mills to substitute niobium to vanadium and Chinese niobium imports increased 30% year-on-year both in 2018 and 2019. Moreover, Roskill forecasts that China’s steel production is close to its peak. —Griffith et al.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. He also served as the 2018–2019 chair of the IEEE Technical Activities Board periodicals committee. for 37 years.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount – ET Auto

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Some 1,061 patents involving RISC-V were published in China last year, up from 10 in 2018, Anaqua’s AcclaimIP database shows. ‘TRUE RISE TO POWER’ RISC-V technology emerged last decade from labs at the University of California, Berkeley. While the U.S. ’s 2,018. Reuters reported in October that some U.S.

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