68 SMT007 MAGAZINE I OCTOBER 2020
NSF Announces MIT-Led Institute for
Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental
Interactions
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The U.S. National Science Foundation announced
an investment of more than $100 million to
establish five artificial intelligence institutes,
each receiving roughly $20 million over five
years. One of these, the NSF AI Institute for
Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Inter-
actions, will be led by MIT's Laboratory for
Nuclear Science and become the intellectual
home of more than 25 physics and AI senior
researchers at MIT and Harvard, Northeastern,
and Tufts universities.
DuPont Names Lavoisier, Pedersen
Award Medalists
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DuPont announced it named 12 outstanding
scientists as recipients of the Lavoisier Medal
of Technical Achievement and the Pedersen
Award Medal.
NVIDIA's Three Next-Generation GPUs
Excite Consumers
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NVIDIA recently announced its next-generation
RTX 3000 Series Graphics GPUs, and the stated
capabilities are amazing. Dan Feinberg explains
how the three new graphics cards are the first
consumer-level devices powered by NVIDIA's
Ampere architecture.
Qualcomm Small Business Accelerator:
From Music Teaching to Cleantech
Engineering
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Qualcomm Technologies Inc. announced selec-
tions for the Qualcomm® Small Business Accel-
erator Program, which is designed to help small
businesses transition to a mobile-first digital
work environment to thrive in today's business
climate and set-up for success in the long term.
Ethertronics Releases First UWB Antenna
Solutions for Samsung Electronics
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AVX Corporation—a manufacturer and sup-
plier of advanced electronic components and
interconnect, sensor, control, and antenna
solutions—announced that its AVX/Ethertron-
ics Korea team completed the development
and mass production of the first ultra-wide-
band antenna solutions to be integrated into
Samsung Electronics products.
Panasonic Completes Transfer of Its
Semiconductor Business
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Panasonic Corporation announced that it com-
pleted the previously announced transfer of its
semiconductor business to Nuvoton Technol-
ogy Corporation, a Taiwan-based semiconduc-
tor company under the umbrella of Winbond
Electronics Corporation group, following the
receipt of regulatory approvals.
Keysight's 5G Test Solutions Enable
Jabil to Address Demand for
5G Product Validation
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Keysight Technologies Inc.—a technology com-
pany that helps enterprises, service providers,
and governments accelerate innovation to con-
nect and secure the world—announced that
Jabil selected Keysight's 5G device test solu-
tions to address the demand for 5G product
validation in design and manufacturing.
Sony Delivers Second-Level Cycle Mobile
Base Station Control Using Dynamic
Spectrum Access Technology
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Sony Corporation announced that it had devel-
oped Dynamic Spectrum Access technology for
the optimized use of radio-frequency resources,
achieving fast spectrum assignment and con-
trol in a cycle of seconds for the first time.
