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Background
ASML’s MBSE journey: from local optimization to system-level insight
Over the past years, ASML has been taking determined steps toward model-based systems engineering (MBSE), driven by growing system complexity, cost pressure and the need for earlier insight into the impact of design decisions. Inspired by the multi-company workshops facilitated by TNO-ESI, the litho giant’s systems engineers are gradually converging on a shared ambition: moving from isolated models toward a connected digital thread across the full product lifecycle.
Opinion
Compliance as a competitive weapon
Companies that treat compliance as a strategic capability transform what appears to be a constraint into an advantage. Those that continue to treat it as paperwork will be slower, more expensive and less adaptable.
Editorial
Pali pali
On his trip to Southeast Asia, René Raaijmakers learns why a highly developed country like Korea is so interested in technology from the rural plains of Brabant.
Background
“By applying simple rules, many EMC tests become achievable”
Once electronics move beyond the prototype phase, the focus shifts from functionality to predictability and robustness. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is then no longer an afterthought. That was the reason for Dylan Gybels of Magics Technologies to delve deeper into this topic through a training at High Tech Institute.
Analysis
Korea’s hybrid-bonding push targets Besi – and builds on Dutch expertise
Whoever masters the third dimension will shape the future of semiconductors. Korea’s semiconductor ecosystem appears determined not to leave that capability in foreign hands.
News
Eindhoven breaks ground on 6-inch InP pilot line
Construction of Europe’s first 6-inch indium phosphide pilot line starts as the integrated photonics technology is gearing up for an explosion of AI-driven demand.
Analysis
Oversupply to overdrive: memory makers flip the switch
Initially reluctant to expand capacity in response to an AI-driven surge in demand, memory makers are ramping up spending.
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Events
Courses
Interview
“We need to educate thinkers, not monkeys who know tricks”
The success of a university education is now measured in graduation rates rather than intellectual formation, observes Stefano Stramigioli, a professor at the University of Twente. He knows why. The primacy of academic education no longer rests with academics themselves.
Background
Nearfield and TNO-ESI: architecting for scale
As Nearfield Instruments scales from startup to established player in atomic force microscopy-based metrology, systems engineering has become mission-critical. Through a tailored training program with TNO-ESI, the company is embedding architectural thinking across the organization – and solidifying that good systems engineering starts with the end in mind.
News
Dutch central bank urges defense billions be directed to dual-use technology
Not tanks or ammunition, but dual-use technology should take center stage in new defense investments, De Nederlandsche Bank argues.
Background
Photon Bridge’s ‘de-integration’ bet could reshape integrated-photonics manufacturing
With a modular, de-integrated platform that separates active and passive components, Dutch startup Photon Bridge aims to simplify manufacturing, reduce costs and scale photonic integrated chip production for emerging AI and telecom applications.
News
Deep tech stands out in Dutch tech scene
Deep tech outperforms the broader Dutch tech scene in key metrics, while being less reliant on US capital, the State of Dutch Tech Report 2026 shows.
Analysis
2030 and the looming quantum cryptography threat
Dutch auditors point to 2030 as a possible breaking point for current cryptographic methods. Is that realistic or alarmist?
Editorial
Is 1,700 enough?
The layoffs at ASML are a necessary response to changing tides in the semiconductor industry.