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Mitsubishi Chemical Develops
Electrolyte for Tesla
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A Mitsubishi Chemical technical expert revealed
that the important innovations of Tesla's new
battery are the positive and negative electrodes
and the new electrolyte.
NVIDIA, Oracle Advance AI in Cloud
for Enterprises Globally
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Accelerating innovation for enterprises around
the world, Oracle announced the general avail-
ability of bare-metal Oracle Cloud Infrastruc-
ture instances featuring the NVIDIA A100 Ten-
sor Core GPU.
Twenty Companies Join New Industrial
Digital Twin Association
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VDMA and ZVEI have founded the "Industrial
Digital Twin Association" as a user organiza-
tion for Industrie 4.0 together with Bitkom and
20 companies from the mechanical and electri-
cal engineering industries.
GlobalFoundries, Mentor Launch
Semiconductor Verification Solution
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GlobalFoundries, a leading specialty foundry,
announced at its annual Global Technology
Conference a significantly enhanced design for
manufacturability kit embedded with advanced
machine learning capabilities.
Hitachi ABB Power Grids Launches
Ecosystem for Digitalization of
Transformers
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Hitachi ABB Power Grids is delighted to launch
the TXpertTM Ecosystem for the digitalization
of transformers. The ecosystem is designed
to drive data-driven intelligence and decision
making in the operations and maintenance of
transformers and power grids.
Keysight Technologies Makes Two Key
Leadership Appointments
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Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that Ee
Huei Sin, head of Keysight's General Electron-
ics Measurement business, was promoted to
lead the Electronic Industrial Solutions Group,
effective immediately.
Ford Breaks Ground on New Electric F-150
Plant at Historic Rouge Center
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Ford announced an even deeper commitment
to American manufacturing, celebrating the
production start of the all-new F-150 at the
storied Ford Rouge Center and confirming the
construction of the new Rouge Electric Vehicle
Center where it will build the all-electric F-150
by mid-2022.
AMD EPYC Processors Deployed
With Over Two Petaflops of
Computing Power
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AMD and Okinawa Institute of Science and
Technology Graduate University announced
the deployment of AMD EPYC™ 7702 proces-
sors for use in a new, high-performance com-
puting system. The EPYC processor-based
supercomputer will deliver the 2.36 petaflops
of computing power OIST plans to use for sci-
entific research at the University.
Kinestral Technologies Joins Siemens
Connect Ecosystem
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Siemens and Kinestral Technologies Inc.
announced that Kinestral, developer and
manufacturer of Halio® smart-tinting glass,
joined the growing Siemens Connect Ecosys-
tem—a network that brings together experts
in software development, IT, cybersecurity,
remote and digital services, and business intel-
ligence.
