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Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again

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"There's a reason it's called Silicon Valley," says Malone, author of The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley , and about a dozen other books about Silicon Valley's people and companies. We get excited about new products and companies, but they all depend on chips getting built, and right now they aren't getting built.

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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 partnership will see the two companies deepen their development efforts, based on VisIC D 3 GaN (Direct Drive Depletion-mode GaN) semiconductor technology. D 3 GaN technology has been shown to reduce the power losses by at least 50% while benefiting from the high-yield, low-cost proprietary design of GaN transistors.

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