News : Industry

European patent applications are booming in the semiconductor industry, with an increase of 21% in 2021 alone. The biggest contributors to this increase are multinational companies: The latest edition of the EPO’s* annual innovation barometer places Samsung, Intel, and TSMC in first, second, and third place. The CEA, at number four, is the highest-ranked European […] >>

In September, Valeo and CEA-Leti signed a power electronics partnership. Their goal is to optimize the EV powertrain, which encompasses the battery, motor, wheels, and a variety of components in between. The partners’ aim is to improve energy yields while reducing size, weight, and cost. Further priorities include reliability improvements and eco-design: When you add […] >>

CIME* Nanotech now offers multi-project circuit prototyping, which significantly lowers fabrication costs. This new service rounds out the organization’s circuit design and validation activities. In multi-project circuit prototyping, a single silicon wafer is used to prototype circuits for up to thirty clients, who each purchase a tiny amount of space on the wafer. This approach […] >>

Altrans Énergies, a Grenoble startup that specializes in power distribution and equipment monitoring solutions, is one of fifteen winners selected for the New Technology Venture Accelerator*, an initiative of the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States.The startup, which already has a dozen pilot projects running in France and […] >>

A Grenoble INP alumnae and computer scientist, Dupenloup’s career has spanned research and private-sector business and taken her from France to the United States and back again.She joined Minalogic in 2012 to head the cluster’s business development activities for its member companies.Government funding for tech and industrial development projects is up at both the French […] >>