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Crocus Technology’s R&D partnership with Spintec is changing tempo. After years of working through renewable one-year agreements, the duo have committed to a five-year agreement (2013–2017) to form a joint lab guaranteed to employ a set number of people. This move comes just ahead of Crocus Technology’s launch of industrial scale production. Its R&D with […] >>

In a ceremony at MINATEC on March 26, 2013, Jean Therme, head of France’s Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA), awarded the Knight of the French National Order of Merit medal to Philippe Mallein, an innovation and user-driven design consultant for CEA-DRT and for MINATEC’s IDEAs Lab, which he helped establish. Mallein sees himself as […] >>

Ezra, a beatboxer (a performing artist who produces vocal percussion sounds), is working with Organic Orchestra 2.0 to develop an interactive stage glove as part of his residency at Atelier Arts-Sciences. The glove contains numerous microsensors and miniature batteries that let the artist control an entire sound and lighting system using natural hand movements. This […] >>

This fall Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma will kick-off France’s first work-study program for micro and nanoelectronic systems design. This program was developed in association with Grenoble-area high-tech businesses and was approved by the regional government in April 2013. The program will give engineers the theoretical knowledge and real-world experience to design integrated systems. It aims […] >>

The 17 Grenoble-based members of IRT Nanoelec will meet at MINATEC on June 24, 2013 to celebrate the research institute’s first anniversary. All seven of the planned R&D projects have been kicked off since the institute was created in April 2012, including projects on 3D integration and photonics on silicon—the system’s core technology. The project […] >>