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10 outdated distinctions: conclusion
We need to find new organizational principles that fit better with a digital world where we deliver new value to customers on a continuous basis, concludes Jan Bosch.
News
ASML still digesting impact of tariffs
ASML maintains its growth forecast, mostly because it can’t yet oversee the impact of Trump’s import tariffs on business operations and the global economy.
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Bits&Chips talks to Gerrit Muller (part 5)
In a series of five interviews with Bits&Chips (in Dutch), systems architecting guru Gerrit Muller shares his views on systems thinking, the Dutch way.
Analysis
“Metrology and chiplet design are opportunities for the Netherlands”
The coming chiplet ecosystem in the semiconductor industry will create many opportunities for the Dutch industry. Patrick de Jager presented them recently in an overview of the current trends in semiconductors.
Background
ASML takes a first step in back-end semicon
For the first time, ASML is introducing a system that’s also aimed at the back-end semiconductor market. Head of product management i-line, Martin Wassink, talks to Bits&Chips about the new XT260 wafer scanner.
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Bits&Chips talks to Gerrit Muller (part 4)
In a series of five interviews with Bits&Chips (in Dutch), systems architecting guru Gerrit Muller shares his views on systems thinking, the Dutch way.
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Interview
ASML systems engineer awarded first ECP2 Silver certificate
Buket Şahin has become the first person to get the ECP2 Silver certificate. For the ASML engineer, that’s just the side-effect of her passion for learning. She likes to dig into new fields, and became a better systems engineer because of it.
News
Trump’s tariffs apply to ASML gear
Chip manufacturing equipment makes up two-thirds of wafer cost, and ASML’s tools are by far the most expensive ones in the fab.
News
Dutch chip sector needs more help than funding, says figurehead
Eindhoven Mayor Jeroen Dijsselbloem calls for cutting red tape hampering the housing and infrastructure projects needed to support the growth of the local semiconductor industry.
Background
Delft’s Quantware paves the way to the million-qubit quantum computer
The key to scaling quantum computers to nigh-unfathomable computational power has been unearthed not by a tech giant but by a relatively obscure Delft-based company.
Background
Leading the troops into the realm of systems engineering
TNO-ESI was asked to help the Netherlands armed forces take their systems engineering know-how to the next level. After a successful pilot training with twenty participants, four additional groups of twenty will be upskilled this year.
Video
Bits&Chips talks to Gerrit Muller (part 3)
In a series of five interviews with Bits&Chips (in Dutch), systems architecting guru Gerrit Muller shares his views on systems thinking, the Dutch way.
Background
Renaissance of Europe’s PV manufacturing hinges on Brussels’ next move
The Netherlands is a first mover in the efforts to bring back PV manufacturing to Europe. It can only succeed if the EU takes action soon.