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New frontier for speedy semiconductors
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International research partners for Alcatel The renowned French information technology research institute INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) joins Alcatel’s recently launched Research Partner Program, along with North Carolina State University and the University of Dallas at Texas. Alcatel hopes the program will keep the company innovative and cutting edge by establishing long-term relations with universities and research institutes throughout the world.
With the focus on areas of research interesting to Alcatel, the relationship with INRIA builds on a 13-year past history of collaboration in telecommunications and multimedia. “Our relationship is based on deep mutual knowledge and trust, which are essential in any successful partnership. This new program is in line with our strategy: to invest in the understanding of industry issues and to deal with questions that are at the heart of a company’s business, explains chair and CEO of
INRIA Bernard Larrouturou. A third of INRIA’s research teams already work with Alcatel and a steering committee ensures the further development of projects of common interest. North Carolina’s involvement brings input from the Microelectronics Research Center of North Carolina in Research Triangle Park. The exchange of personnel will be encouraged via short-term assignments and more permanent positions. The University’s chancellor Marye Anne Fox comments “Alcatel
has generously supported the university, and North Carolina State has provided Alcatel with a pool of skilled employees, as well as an opportunity for high quality, advanced programs for existing employees. This research partnership expands our existing relationship, and has great potential to produce innovative advancements in technology.” For further information: http://www.alcatel.com/technologies /research_partners/ http://www.inria.fr/
New frontier for speedy semiconductors Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
and US telecommunications giant TRW announce the formation of a strategic
Five antennas of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope. (Courtesy: CSIRO.)
alliance to develop high performance III-V devices for radio astronomy, advanced millimeter-wave sensors, and telecoms systems. CSIRO and TRW started working together eight years ago, and have already developed technologies that were used to upgrade the Southern Hemisphere’s major radio telescope, the Australia Telescope. Indium phosphide (InP) lownoise amplifiers and digital receiver chips designed by CSIRO scientists and engineers, and fabricated by TRW’s telecoms product company Velocium, enable the radio telescope to operate at 100 GHz. “The Australia Telescope is a demanding test bed for our InP chips,” says president of Velocium, Dwight Streit. “The extremely high frequencies allow astronomers to take pictures of new phenomena
One of the new InP chips for the Australia Telescope receivers. (Courtesy: CSIRO.)
with greater detail than ever before. Velocium’s InP chips are helping improve the science of astronomy now, and will soon be helping improve the performance of other sensor and telecommunications systems.”
International research partners for Alcatel The renowned French information technology research institute INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) joins Alcatel’s recently launched Research Partner Program, along with North Carolina State University and the University of Dallas at Texas. Alcatel hopes the program will keep the company innovative and cutting edge by establishing long-term relations with universities and research institutes throughout the world.
With the focus on areas of research interesting to Alcatel, the relationship with INRIA builds on a 13-year past history of collaboration in telecommunications and multimedia. “Our relationship is based on deep mutual knowledge and trust, which are essential in any successful partnership. This new program is in line with our strategy: to invest in the understanding of industry issues and to deal with questions that are at the heart of a company’s business, explains chair and CEO of
INRIA Bernard Larrouturou. A third of INRIA’s research teams already work with Alcatel and a steering committee ensures the further development of projects of common interest. North Carolina’s involvement brings input from the Microelectronics Research Center of North Carolina in Research Triangle Park. The exchange of personnel will be encouraged via short-term assignments and more permanent positions. The University’s chancellor Marye Anne Fox comments “Alcatel
has generously supported the university, and North Carolina State has provided Alcatel with a pool of skilled employees, as well as an opportunity for high quality, advanced programs for existing employees. This research partnership expands our existing relationship, and has great potential to produce innovative advancements in technology.” For further information: http://www.alcatel.com/technologies /research_partners/ http://www.inria.fr/
New frontier for speedy semiconductors Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
and US telecommunications giant TRW announce the formation of a strategic
Five antennas of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope. (Courtesy: CSIRO.)
alliance to develop high performance III-V devices for radio astronomy, advanced millimeter-wave sensors, and telecoms systems. CSIRO and TRW started working together eight years ago, and have already developed technologies that were used to upgrade the Southern Hemisphere’s major radio telescope, the Australia Telescope. Indium phosphide (InP) lownoise amplifiers and digital receiver chips designed by CSIRO scientists and engineers, and fabricated by TRW’s telecoms product company Velocium, enable the radio telescope to operate at 100 GHz. “The Australia Telescope is a demanding test bed for our InP chips,” says president of Velocium, Dwight Streit. “The extremely high frequencies allow astronomers to take pictures of new phenomena
One of the new InP chips for the Australia Telescope receivers. (Courtesy: CSIRO.)
with greater detail than ever before. Velocium’s InP chips are helping improve the science of astronomy now, and will soon be helping improve the performance of other sensor and telecommunications systems.”