News : Innovation & Society

Virtually all of the Y.Spot Partners building had been leased before it opened.The main tenants are HP France (600 employees), moving from their old site in Eybens, near Grenoble; The Village by CA startup accelerator* (with 20 startups); and four CEA tech transfer and scientific outreach departments.Y.Spot Partners is located near Y.Spot Labs, which runs […] >>

The EU Horizon 2020 program turned out to be especially productive for CEA-Leti, with 184 projects securing €192 million in funding. The average EU project acceptance rate is 17%. CEA-Leti had 26% of its projects accepted—and served as coordinator on 34 of them!CEA-Leti is more committed than ever to addressing major societal challenges—from the medicine […] >>

Spintec recently completed a proof-of-concept of a promising memristor that could be used as an artificial synapse in neuromorphic architectures.This non-volatile memory’s resistance can have multiple intermediate values between a minimum and a maximum.Thanks to recent advances, the storage layer’s magnetization can be oriented and stabilized in all directions of the layer plane, rather than […] >>

CEA-Leti will present an electronic detonator system with bidirectional radio modules at the Mountain Planet trade show in Grenoble in April.Communicating via a special protocol, the system wirelessly and remotely controls several detonations synchronized to within a tenth of a second, with a success rate of 100%.The technology was originally developed for Davey Bickford, the […] >>

Deep brain stimulation and infrared illumination appear to be effective at treating Parkinson’s disease. But why? The Clinatec Endowment Fund, through a new research project called Astropark, is looking for insights the cellular mechanisms at play in neurons and astrocytes. Deep brain stimulation, shown to significantly reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, has been used […] >>