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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o. Universities and community colleges are revamping their semiconductor-related curricula and forging strategic partnerships with one another and with industry to train the staff needed to run U.S. Engineering schools in the United States are now racing to produce that talent.

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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. But efforts to fix this have come with trade-offs, such as drifting resistance values.

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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. Testing of batteries across a range of temperatures and charge/discharge cycling conditions is important for determining how quickly a battery could degrade in different parts of the world.

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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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For each snippet of sound, it would guess the word or words, and update its connections based on whether it’s right or wrong. The group’s research, Lai says, is part of an ongoing collaboration on low-resource language learning between MIT CSAIL and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. OMP created no such boost.

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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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ETH Zürich Developing Pneumatic Hybrid Engine; Approaches Hybrid-Electric Performance at Lower Cost

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Researchers at ETH Zürich are developing a pneumatic hybrid engine—an internal combustion engine connected to a compressed air tank instead of a battery system. Journal Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering pp. Pneumatic hybrid engine on the test bench. Rüegg / ETH Zurich.

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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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