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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o. economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? Intel arrives at Ohio State Ohio State University is using its chip-fabrication facility to train future engineers and technicians.

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Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits

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Aside from Cerebras , a startup attempting to build chips that span the entirety of a silicon wafer, the chip industry seems in agreement that monolithic design is becoming more trouble than it’s worth. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Universal Chiplet Interconnection Express hopes to bring the industry together.

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Nanostructures Bring Gains for Phase Change Memory

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Engineers in the United States and Taiwan say they have demonstrated a promising new twist on nonvolatile memory that’s small enough, miserly when it comes to energy, and works at low enough voltage that it could boost the abilities of future processors. If not, industry is not going to take it seriously.”

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. The team worked with the nonprofit Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF). The system is being used in the mobile homes of those living in nomadic communities.

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Ford expanding global electrified vehicle battery R&D

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Through this network, the EPE team will take advantage of globally connected technologies to develop lighter and more durable EV batteries. Taiwan and Korea, where the company offers the Mondeo Hybrid. This is truly a world-class environment for Ford to develop and test industry-leading battery technology.

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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. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. This scale model of a floating wind-turbine platform is one of 10 new designs being tested at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility. Peter Fairley This rush to deep water is a global phenomenon. We have the technology.

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