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February 05 2019
Nano 2022: €35 million earmarked for nanotechnology R&D
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- Research
In late 2018 the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional government announced that it would provide €35 million in financing for the Nano 2022 initiative. The vast majority of the funds will be invested in the Grenoble area, with stakeholders like Leti, STMicroelectronics, Soitec, Sofradir, and ULIS among the beneficiaries. The R&D conducted under Nano 2022 will focus on […] >>
February 05 2019
Technology transfer: Sylvain Colomb succeeds Alain Briand
- Industry
- Life @ MINATEC
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Sylvain Colomb took over from Alain Briand as head of the CEA Grenoble’s tech transfer and spinoff programs in January. Colomb, 41 years old, is an electronics engineer and has personal experience starting a spinoff. He is one of the cofounders of Ethera, spun off from the CEA in 2010 to develop indoor air quality […] >>
February 05 2019
Synchrotron to shut down for 20 months
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- Research
The Synchrotron’s Extremely Brilliant Source project commenced on December 10. Over the 20 months of the project, the entire X-ray source—magnets, vacuum tubes, RF cavities, cryogenics—will be replaced. The new X-ray source will be more energy efficient and will emit a beam that is ten times smaller and, therefore, a hundred times brighter than the […] >>
February 05 2019
Aryballe Technologies and INAC, a winning partnership
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Yanxia Hou-Broutin, a research scientist at INAC, and Tristan Rousselle, CEO of Aryballe Technologies, came in second in the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) European Innovation Awards in the Impact Delivered category in Brussels last fall. The award was granted for the partners’ successful collaboration on the NeOse artificial nose. NeOse leverages […] >>
February 05 2019
My Cube experiments with in-memory computing
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- Research
Does separating circuits’ logic and memory still make sense? Especially when we know that transferring data from one to the other is the biggest culprit when it comes to energy consumption? The Leti researchers gearing up to kick off the My Cube project on March 1 are convinced that the answer is no. The project, […] >>


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