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Taiwan team engineers E. coli to produce n-butanol from glycerol

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Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. Consequently, the proposed approach conferred the strain with the ability to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol in an effective manner.

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TSMC R&D Chief: There’s Light at the End of the Chip Shortage

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Yuh-Jier Mii started on the ground floor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Growing up in Taiwan, the environment encouraged people to become scientists or engineers.”. Mii earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University , and his master’s and Ph.D.,

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Univ. of Southampton researchers develop auction-based online pricing mechanism for more efficient management of EV charging

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Researchers at the University of Southampton (UK) have designed a pricing mechanism for electric vehicle charging based on an online auction protocol that makes it possible to charge EVs without overloading the local electricity network. Alex Rogers, University of Southampton computer scientist and co-author. Gerding, E., In Press).

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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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They’ll present their paper this month, at the NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) AI conference. This is one thing that impresses me,” says Hung-yi Lee , a computer scientist at National Taiwan University who was not involved in the work. He’s submitted a paper on the topic to next year’s ICASSP conference.) “A

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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 helped found the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. for 37 years.

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Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits

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Nvidia delivered similar news at the GPU Technology Conference 2022 , where CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company will fuse two of the company’s new Grace CPU processors into a single “Superchip.”. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Universal Chiplet Interconnection Express hopes to bring the industry together.

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The U.S.-China Chip Ban, Explained

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along with several other countries, including South Korea and Taiwan) placed Russia under a chip embargo. Most chip trade and chip production in China is unimpacted,” says Christopher Miller , a historian who studies the semiconductor trade at Tufts University. Previously, the U.S has blocked chip sales to individual Chinese customers.

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