Les prix des ordinateurs, ordinateurs portables et smartphones pourraient augmenter dès décembre, en raison d’une hausse spectaculaire du coût de la RAM et des SSD, qui aurait grimpé jusqu’à 500 % selon les dernières analyses du secteur.

The global telecommunications sector is missing the most critical corporate mutation of the decade. Analysts still track Huawei by its radio share, contract wins and losses, friction with regulators, and handset cycles. The entire Western debate remains obsessed with the tower, the antenna, and the base station. Meanwhile, the center of gravity inside Huawei has moved to a very different place. The real action is in the data center, not the radio site.

The term ‘disruptive innovation’ is attributed to Harvard professor of business Clayton Christiansen, who helped develop the concept in the 1990s. It’s based on the idea that established companies tend to focus their development on the top end of their markets, leaving a gap for newcomers to rethink the basic principles those companies were founded on, quickly progress and eventually overtake the originators. The result is a new way of doing things that makes previously high-end experiences accessible to the mass market. 

The ESP32-C3 SuperMini modules are incredibly affordable, costing around €2, and are equipped with a compact SMD antenna. However, this tiny antenna significantly limits the usable Wi-Fi range, due to its design. To address this issue with minimal effort, I implemented a simple antenna modification that drastically improved performance.

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While traditional lithography remains central to electronics manufacturing, it still produces defects that contribute to yield loss and material waste. Hummink’s printing tools are designed to complement lithography by detecting and correcting such defects at the micronic level, with the aim of increasing output, reducing scrap, and lowering environmental impact. Hummink’s initial integration focus is on next-generation OLED displays for smartphones and laptops, where up to 30 per cent of annual production is reportedly discarded due to microscopic defects, equating to an estimated €16 billion in losses and significant material waste. The company’s technology is designed to correct many of these defects, enabling manufacturers to recover output that would otherwise be scrapped.

The company is now under qualification with major display manufacturers in Asia whose factories discard large portions of production due to microscopic flaws. Early tests suggest Hummink’s solution could boost yields by around 10 percent.

La société a développé un procédé de micro-impression, le High-Precision Capillary Printing (HPCaP), qui fonctionne comme un stylo-plume à l’échelle micronique. Le système dépose des métaux ou matériaux fonctionnels avec une précision sub-5 microns pour réparer des circuits, ajuster des connexions ou corriger les défauts invisibles qui entraînent la mise au rebut de composants entiers. Ce positionnement répond à un besoin immédiat : les technologies de lithographie, même les plus avancées, génèrent des imperfections qui ne peuvent être traitées qu’après fabrication.

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Think of advanced manufacturing and you think of precision engineering – sophisticated production lines that spit out advanced components with total accuracy. However, some technologies are now so complex and technical that even highly-skilled manufacturers are struggling with high defect rates that slow production and cost them big money.

Capital will support development of Hummink’s industrial printing module and prepare its integration inside semiconductor and display factories. The team also plans to double its workforce by 2026, expand global presence across Asia and the U.S., and boost production of proprietary conductive inks used in ultra-fine electronic repairs.

Traditional lithography remains the workhorse of electronics production, but even the best processes generate flaws that lead to yield losses and material waste. In comparison, Hummink’s printing tools act as surgical instruments at the micronic level, complementing lithography by identifying and correcting those flaws. The result is higher output, lower scrap rates, and reduced environmental impact across the industry.

As microelectronics underpin the rise of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, the smallest manufacturing imperfections have become billion-euro problems. Each defect at the sub-micron scale can derail an entire batch of chips or displays.

HPCaP allows the printing of metals and functional materials at the sub-micron scale and supports real-time repair of defects during chip and display production. The company promotes the method as a way to address faults that can halt entire batches in microelectronics manufacturing.

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Les robots sont partout, ces machines (petites ou grosses) sont utilisées dans l’industrie, dans l’exploration spatiale ou sous marine, dans la vie domestique avec des applications informatiques qui agissent pour nous ou qui interagissent avec nous lorsque nous nous servons de nos ordinateurs ou de nos smartphones.

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a new protein-based gel that can restore tooth enamel by mimicking the body’s natural growth processes. A newly developed material has been used to create a gel capable of repairing and rebuilding tooth enamel, offering a potential breakth

Confocal Raman microscopy is a label-free and non-destructive technique that enables 2D and 3D measurements on biological samples both in vivo and in vitro. It can be seamlessly combined with other techniques for a comprehensive analysis of the samples. Such a combination allows for obtaining metabolic, structural, mechanical, topographical and other kind of information from cells, organoids, tissues, and other types of biological samples.

Les dispositifs Crédit Impôt Recherche (CIR) et Crédit Impôt Innovation (CII) font l’objet très régulièrement de critiques et de prises de position variées. Son coût pour la puissance publique n’y est pas étranger. France Innovation et l’ASRC ont souhaité lancer cette enquête afin de recueillir, dans un premier temps, l’avis de nos membres avec une approche quantitative.

Mercor aurait recruté près de 150 consultants afin de bâtir une intelligence artificielle capable de les assister au quotidien, selon Bloomberg. Le secteur s'interroge de plus en plus sur l'arrivée en force de cette nouvelle technologie.