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Jaishankar urges Singapore’s business community to invest in India’s semiconductor manufacturing sector – ET Auto

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday briefed Singapore’s business community about the strides taken by India in the field of manufacture of semiconductors and appealed to them to invest in this key sector in the country.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. Today it is familiar worldwide. Why aren’t they more famous?

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. He was a member of the university’s.

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China’s military and government acquire Nvidia chips despite US ban – ET Auto

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Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes and universities have over the past year purchased small batches of Nvidia semiconductors banned by the U.S. Purchasers included elite universities as well as two entities subject to U.S. from export to China, a Reuters review of tender documents show.

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NUS-led research team develops cost-effective technique for mass production of high-quality graphene; 50x less solvent

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A research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an economical and industrially viable strategy to produce graphene. The research was conducted in collaboration with Fudan University and the findings were published in an open-access paper in Nature Communications.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

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The work was supported by the New England University Transportation Center at MIT, the MIT Leading Technology and Policy Initiative, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, the Charles E. The study, he says, is both “interesting and useful.”. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, and the MIT Energy Initiative. 2016.112.

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