60 SMT007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2021
Coalition Calls on Congress to Invest in
Domestic Semiconductor Manufacturing,
Research, Design E
e Semiconductor Industry Association
(SIA)—along with a broad coalition of 19 oth-
er tech, auto, medical, defense, and other busi-
ness and labor groups—in a letter urged Con-
gress to enact funding for the semiconductor
manufacturing, research, and design initiatives
authorized in the "Creating Helpful Incen-
tives for the Production of Semiconductors"
(CHIPS) for America Act.
Survey: Companies Lagging the Industry
in Digital Transformation E
Almost half of the respondents, around 46.6%,
believed that their own companies fell behind
the industry average when it comes to utiliz-
ing digital tools as part of business processes,
according to a survey conducted by AIBP and
Oracle from March to April.
Inseego Unveils the Ultimate 5G
Industrial Gateway E
Inseego Corp., a leader in 5G device-to-cloud
solutions, introduced its Wavemaker PRO
2000e industrial gateway. Combining high-per-
formance 5G with the most advanced 4G LTE
capabilities, this solution delivers best-in-class
throughput and reliability for industrial IoT
and enterprise networks.
InSight Mission Unveils Interior
of Mars E
e interior of Mars has for the first time been
revealed using the seismometers carried on
NASA's InSight mission to Mars. In a series of
articles published in Science, researchers use
the seismic measurements from the SEIS in-
struments aboard the InSight lander to derive
the interior structure of the planet as well as
giving clues to its early evolution.
LPKF Laser Technology Ushers in New
Era in the Medical Implant Industry E
More than 60,000 cochlear implants are sold
annually, but at least 60,000 babies are born
with hearing loss in India and China alone.
TODOC, a South Korean startup, was founded
to address this global shortage of cochlear im-
plants by developing manufacturable cochlear
electrode arrays using an ultrashort-pulse laser
system, the LPKF Proto-Laser R.
Lenovo Research: Three Steps
Businesses Can Take to Innovate
Beyond Boundaries E
Lenovo Group launches Beyond Boundaries,
a new report on the state of business innova-
tion today. e study examines how businesses
are innovating their way into the post-COVID
future, not just to satisfy pent-up demand and
unlock growth, but also to improve their social
and environmental performance.
Synthesis AI Unveils Enhanced
Synthetic Data Capabilities E
Synthesis AI, a pioneer in synthetic data tech-
nologies, announced enhanced capabilities to
simulate driver behavior in the car cabin en-
vironment to ensure automobile and autono-
mous vehicle (AV) manufacturers have access
to high-quality, perfectly labeled training data
to build driver safety systems.
