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Bits&Chips

Hosted by René Raaijmakers · 🇺🇸 US · NL · 77 episodes

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77
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15 days ago
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37m
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About this podcast

René Raaijmakers spreekt met de drijvende krachten uit de hightech industrie. Gezichtsbepalende onderzoekers, technici en leiders vertellen over trends, technologie, business en over hun drijfveren.

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René Raaijmakers hosts Bits&Chips, a technology show with 77 episodes published.

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Bits&Chips in gesprek met Eric Beyne (Imec)

Apr 21, 20261h 3m

Imec senior fellow Eric Beyne geeft op 22 mei op de Benelux Heterogeneous Integration Conference een keynotepresentatie. Bits&Chips ging alvast bij hem langs om te praten over advanced packaging en Erics vakgebied, 3D sy

Bits&Chips talks to ASML's Arie Den Boef

Apr 8, 202657m

ASML Corporate Fellow Arie den Boef is the driving force behind Yieldstar, a metrology instrument that is indispensable in advanced chip manufacturing. Bits&Chips speaks with Arie about a quarter century of Yieldstar and

Bits&Chips talks to Tusk IC's Shailesh Kulkarni & Kathleen Philips

Mar 31, 202654m

Tusk-IC develops the transmitter and receiver chips for dishes that can communicate with satellites in low Earth orbit. This will open up a market that is currently dominated by Starlink, Elon Musk’s system. https://bits

Bit&Chips in gesprek met Frank rood - Deel 3

Feb 11, 202631mEp. 3

In de derde aflevering over modulariteit praat Bits&Chips met Frank Rood over de bedrijfscultuur die nodig is om het beste te halen uit modulair werken. https://bits-chips.com/

Bits&Chips in gesprek met Frank Rood - Deel 2

Feb 3, 202632mEp. 2

In de tweede aflevering over modulariteit praat Bits&Chips met Frank Rood over het kiezen van de juiste modules en hoe je projecten modulair maakt. In the second episode on modularity, Bits&Chips talks to Frank Rood abou

Bits&Chips in gesprek met Frank Rood - Deel 1

Jan 15, 202636mEp. 1S1

Bits&Chips praat met Frank Rood over modulair werken. In deze eerste aflevering gaan we terug naar de basis, waarom zou je modulair willen werken en wat is het precies? Bits&Chips talks with Frank Rood about modular work

Bits&Chips talks to Trumpf's Matthias Wissert

Oct 8, 202524m

Matthias Wissert, head of R&D at Trumpf, about the changes in the engineering culture at the German machine and laser developer in the last twelve years - driven in part by the collaboration with ASML. https://bits-chips

Bits&Chips catches up with Marcel Pelgrom

Sep 18, 202514m

Marcel Pelgrom proposes to invest 199 million euros in a new Dutch chip measurement lab. https://bits-chips.com/

Bits&Chips talks to ASML's Ale Sytsma (Dutch)

Sep 17, 202548m

Ale Sytsma is one of the last three ASML employees with a Philips background who will retire this year. He installed the first PAS 2000 waferstepper at the very first customer, IBM in Burlington (US). In this interview (

Bits&Chips talks to Trumpf's Jonathan Müller - Part 3

Sep 10, 202519mEp. 3

ASML and Trumpf both have different systems engineering approaches, deeply rooted in their organization. The requirements for lowering costs nicely show this. Jonathan Muller talks about it in this podcast. https://bits-

Bits&Chips talks to Trumpf's Jonathan Müller - Part 2

Sep 3, 202526mEp. 2

To keep up with the pace in the semiconductor market, Trumpf had no other choice than to adapt to the ASML way of working. In this episode, Jonathan Müller explains what that meant for systems engineering and the develop

Bits&Chips talks to Trumpf's Jonathan Müller - Part 1

Aug 28, 202523mEp. 1

Trumpf is famous for its lasers and metal-cutting machines, but the German company had to change its traditional way of systems engineering when it started to develop the drive lasers for ASML’s EUV source. René Raaijmak

Bits&Chips in gesprek met Cees Links - Deel 3

Jun 25, 202531mEp. 3

Cees Links leidde bij Lucent en later Agere de ontwikkeling van wifi, een weergaloos succes in draadloze communicatie. Het gebeurde allemaal in ons land, ver weg van het grote corporate moederbedrijf. Bits&Chips praat me

Bits&Chips in gesprek met Cees Links - Deel 1

Jun 18, 202526mEp. 1

Na een zeer succesvolle carrière bij grote Amerikaanse bedrijven NCR, Lucent en Agere vond Cees Links zichzelf opnieuw uit en ging startups leiden. Greenpeak sloot hij met een succesvolle exit af, nu is hij ceo van Super

Bits&Chips Velorama Tapes met Marcel Pelgrom - Deel 3

Jun 11, 202523mEp. 3

Hebben we wellicht te hoge verwachtingen van AI? Verschillende analisten uiten hun bedenkingen bij de economische levensvatbaarheid van de technologie. Voor welke toepassing of welk product gaan consumenten de portemonne

Bits&Chips in conversation with Peter Jenkins

Jun 4, 202540m

After working 28 years at ASML, Peter Jenkins in 2019 decided to take the ceo job of Infinitesima, a company that develops metrology for the semiconductor industry. Bits&Chips travelled to Abingdon (near Oxford) to ask P

Bits&Chips Velorama Tapes met Marcel Pelgrom - Deel 2

May 27, 202552mEp. 2

Marcel Pelgrom en René Raaijmakers over de hardware hegemonie van Nvidia en hoe ai zich verhoudt tot brute rekenkracht. Voorbeelden uit schaken en Go vertellen Pelgrom dat er een nieuwe vorm van intelligentie is ontstaan

Bits&Chips in gesprek met Patrick de Jager

May 21, 20251h 3m

Patrick de Jager was in zijn lange carrière getuige of betrokken bij vele Nederlandse innovaties. Voor Invest-NL dook hij in de roadmaps van verschillende semiconbedrijven en -organisaties. Hij destilleerde daaruit de ka

Bits&Chips Velorama Tapes met Marcel Pelgrom - Deel 1

May 13, 202534mEp. 1

In het eerste deel van de ‘Velorama Tapes’ blikt Marcel Pelgrom terug op de geschiedenis van kunstmatige intelligentie en vertelt tevens over zijn eerste ervaringen met AI op het Natlab.

Bits&Chips in gesprek met Gerrit Muller - Deel 6

Apr 30, 202529mEp. 6

In het laatste deel van deze serie praat René Raaijmakers met Gerrit Muller over complexiteit. Via dat onderwerp belanden ze toch weer bij de invloed van mensen en culturen bij bedrijven en - we kunnen er niet omheen - o

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Bits&Chips is hosted by René Raaijmakers. The show is categorised under technology and has published 77 episodes.

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Bits&Chips has published 77 episodes.

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