Braidy Industries acquires nanostructured aluminum producer NanoAl

Published: September 23, 2018

Braidy Industries Inc., Ashland, Ky., announces that it has acquired NanoAl LLC, a world leader in the science of nanocrystalline strengthening technology applied to sheet aluminum, as a third wholly owned subsidiary.

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Micron to invest $3 billion in Virginia to expand production of electronic memory devices

Published: September 16, 2018

Micron Technology Inc., Boise, Idaho, announces plans to invest $3 billion by 2030 to increase production of electronic memory devices such as DRAM and NAND at its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Manassas, Virginia, creating roughly 1100 new jobs over the next decade.

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Research team develops method for 3D printing complex graphene components

Published: September 07, 2018

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif., announce that their researchers have developed a novel way to 3D print complex objects of graphene, the form of carbon that is one of the world’s strongest materials.

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Solder alloy made of copper coated with tin nanowires doubles conductivity

Published: August 26, 2018

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, announces that its researchers have developed a copper-tin solder material that has twice the conductivity of conventional solders and a compliance higher by two to three orders of magnitude.

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Bruker ultrahigh field NMR spectroscopy systems to be installed in U.K. universities

Published: August 20, 2018

Bruker, Billerica, Mass., announces recent orders for its Avance ultrahigh-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy systems from several universities across the United Kingdom.

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Linde expands electronics specialty gases, process solutions, and applications lab

Published: August 20, 2018

Linde Electronics, Bridgewater, N.J., is investing in the expansion of existing products to improve business continuity planning (BCP), while adding new products with improved purity to meet the growing needs of sub-10-nm semiconductor factories and advanced flat panel manufacturers.

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Olympus Iplex G Lite videoscope features twice the brightness, faster video capture rate

Published: August 20, 2018

Olympus, Center Valley, Pa., introduces the Iplex G Lite videoscope, the successor to the compact and lightweight Iplex UltraLite model.

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Zeiss develops cloud-based digital microscopy platform for automatic image processing

Published: August 20, 2018

Zeiss, Germany, has developed Apeer, a cloud-based digital microscopy platform that enables automatic processing of images in the cloud, by leveraging application workflows for 3D reconstructions, staining, or segmenting.

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Samsung starts mass production of first 4-bit consumer SSD for smartphones

Published: August 13, 2018

Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd., Seoul, announces that it has begun mass-producing the industry’s first 4-bit (QLC, quad-level cell) 4-terabyte SATA solid-state drive for consumers.

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SIA reports global semiconductor sales continue notable growth, up by 20.4% mid-year

Published: August 13, 2018

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), Washington, representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, announces worldwide sales of semiconductors of $117.9 billion during the second quarter of 2018.

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