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© 2012 IBM Corporation
Meet IBM Research
Dr. Matthias KaiserswerthDirector and Vice President, IBM Research - Zurich
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Agenda
Introduction & Strategy
How an idea becomes an innovation at IBM
Dilemmas of Strategic Innovation Management
Questions & Discussion
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Agenda
Introduction & Strategy
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
IBM Research: The World is Our Lab
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
•World's largest information technology research organization
•Patent Leadership
•More than 3,000 scientists and engineers
•IBM spent $6.3B on R&D in 2011
•5 Nobel Prize Laureates
IBM Research: The World is Our Lab
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- Founded in 1956
- 45 Nationalities
- 25% students, pre- & post-docs, visiting scientists
- 90 Collaborations with Partners
- Two Nobel Prizes (1986 and 1987)
- Recently opened the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center with ETH Zürich
IBM Research -Zürich
Math & Computational Sciences: Business Optimization,
Computational Sciences, Data Analytics
Systems: Server Technology, Accelerator Technology, I/O Link Technologies,
System Software, Energy Management
Science & Technology: Semiconductors, Systems, Beyond the Transistor, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology
Computer Science: Security and Privacy, Business Integration Technologies,
Distributed Computing, Systems Management
Storage: Tape Technologies, Heads and Actuators, Storage Systems,
Memory and Probe Technologies
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2012 and beyondLead
–IBM to new technologies/businesses–Stronger IBM/client collaborations–Deeper industry expertise
“The World is our Lab”–Enable our new labs to succeed–Focus on growth markets–Real world research
Even Bolder Leadership Agenda–Leadership offerings–A new era of computing –Far-reaching research and grand challenges
Expanded Goals for our 2nd Century
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IBM Research and DevelopmentIBM continues to make consistent and sizable investments in R&D
R&
D In
vest
men
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$5.8B
2005 2011
~2950Patents
6% E/R 6% E/R
6180 Patents
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IBM Research - Zurich
IBM Research: Supporting IBM’s Growth
GrowthInitiatives
40%
60%
BaseResearch
Growth Markets22% of IBM’s geographic revenue
Cloud3.8 times 2010 revenue
Business Analytics16% revenue increase from 2010
Smarter PlanetNearly 50% revenue increase from 2010
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IBM Research - Zurich
IBM’s Growth Market ExpansionIn 2011 we opened nearly 100 new branch offices
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IBM Research - Zurich
The World is Our Lab
WatsonAlmaden
Austin TokyoHaifa
Zurich
India
Dublin
Melbourne
Brazil
China
Kenya
IBM Research labs Labs added since 2010
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Africa: The Next Frontier for IBM Research Innovation
New lab in Kenya will conduct basic and applied research to solve East Africa’s problems, such as transportation congestion and to optimize the use, storage, safety and distribution of water.
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Agenda
How an idea becomes an innovation at IBM
Introduction & Strategy
Dilemmas of Strategic Innovation Management
Questions & Discussion
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Agenda
How an idea becomes an innovation at IBM
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Business managementIdeas management
TechnologyTrends
IndustryTrends
SocialTrends
Idea
Prototype
Patents AcademicPapers
PilotDeployment /Productization
Experience Papers
Industry Solution Labs
Research Solution Centers
Trend Scan3-10 years out
Research
Acquisitions
Transfer
Licensing
Collaboration
FOAK
How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Business managementIdeas management
TechnologyTrends
IndustryTrends
SocialTrends
Idea
Prototype
Patents AcademicPapers
PilotDeployment /Productization
Experience Papers
Industry Solution Labs
Research Solution Centers
Trend Scan3-10 years out
Research
Acquisitions
Transfer
Licensing
Collaboration
FOAK
How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM
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IBM Research - Zurich
Trend Scans
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Global Innovation
Outlook
Dialog about innovation, business transformation and societal progress
Collaborate across a global ecosystem
GIO 4.0: security and society, water and oceans
Trend Scans
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Global Innovation
Outlook
Dialog about innovation, business transformation and societal progress
Collaborate across a global ecosystem
GIO 4.0: security and society, water and oceans
jamJamming
Collaboration between companies, organizations and family members to yield first-of-a-kind opportunities
Trend Scans
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IBM Research - Zurich
Global Technology
Outlook
Identify emerging technology trends significant to industry in the next 3 - 7 years
Has a direct influence on IBM’s technical strategy
Global Innovation
Outlook
Dialog about innovation, business transformation and societal progress
Collaborate across a global ecosystem
GIO 4.0: security and society, water and oceans
jamJamming
Collaboration between companies, organizations and family members to yield first-of-a-kind opportunities
Trend Scans
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Managing Uncertain Data at Scale
Future of Analytics
The Future Watson
Systems of People
Outcome Based Business
Resilient Business and Services
2012 Global Technology Outlook
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Ideas management
TechnologyTrends
IndustryTrends
SocialTrends
Idea
Prototype
Patents AcademicPapers
PilotDeployment /Productization
Experience Papers
Industry Solution Labs
Research Solution Centers
Trend Scan3-10 years out
Research
Acquisitions
Transfer
Licensing
Collaboration
FOAK
How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Ideas management
TechnologyTrends
IndustryTrends
SocialTrends
Idea
Prototype
Patents AcademicPapers
PilotDeployment /Productization
Experience Papers
Industry Solution Labs
Research Solution Centers
Trend Scan3-10 years out
Research
Acquisitions
Transfer
Licensing
Collaboration
FOAK
How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM
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IBM Press Release
Intelligent use of heat emissions in data centers
of the future
Hannover, Germany, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, 3 March 2008 — At the CeBIT 2008 tradefair scientists from IBM's
(NYSE: IBM) Zurich Research Laboratory will present for the first time a pioneering concept of a zero carbon
emission data center achieved by the direct reuse of waste heat. The first prototype is not only extremely energy-
efficient, but allows three-quarters of the IT operating energy to be redirected to such uses as to heat buildings. This
is environmentally friendly and lowers overall operating costs. A powerful new kind of water cooling system
embedded on the chip is the basis of this innovation.
Challenges in the IT industry
Energy is an indispensable yet increasingly precious resource. At the same time, it poses a challenge to the IT industry.
According to Gartner Group analysts, the information and communications industry accounts for about 2% of global
carbon dioxide emissions, which is equal to that generated by air traffic the world over. The US-based Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory confirms that the worldwide energy consumption of data centers amounts to some 120 billion KWh,
roughly equivalent to 14 typical power plants of 1000 megawatts each. This energy is used to operate the data centers
around the world that constitute the backbone of our service economy.
And the energy consumption of data centers is increasing. Companies currently spend between 25 and 50% of their total
IT budget on data center operations. Indeed, data centers have developed into oversized electrical heating systems. But
until now, it has not been possible to channel this energy to serve as a direct supply of heat. Instead, this waste heat is
simply dissipated into the environment, meaning that huge potential savings are not being realized.
Technological solution from IBM Research - Zurich
Scientists at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich now want to change this. At the CeBIT 2008 tradefair in Hannover,
Germany, they will present for the first time the pioneering concept of a highly energy-efficient data center that achieves a
zero carbon footprint by directly reusing its waste heat. The researchers have designed an innovative energy and cooling
circuit, the basis of which is a new kind of water-cooling system that is applied where cooling is needed the most —
directly on the chip.
The goal of the zero-emission data center model is to reuse heat generated by the chip for heating buildings, swimming
pools etc. or simply for conducting the heat into a municipal heating network. However, the most important requirement for
the direct use of heat is that the temperature of the waste heat be above a certain threshold, which, for modern municipal
heating networks, is about 50 °C.
To accomplish this, IBM researchers used water, which can conduct heat 4000 times better than air. This alone has an
enormous energy-saving potential. But integrating water cooling on the chip, researchers were able to improve the cooling
efficiency by several orders of magnitude.
Idea/Concept
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IBM Press Release
IBM and ETH Zurich unveil plan to build new kind
of water-cooled supercomputer
Direct reuse of waste heat. Aims to cut energy consumption by 40% and carbon-dioxide emissions by up to 85%
Zurich, Switzerland, June 23, 2009—In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled
supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed
Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons
of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today’s cooling technologies.1
Making computing systems and data centers energy-efficient is a staggering undertaking. In fact, up to 50% percent of an
average air-cooled data center’s carbon footprint or energy consumption today is not caused by computing but by powering
the necessary cooling systems to keep the processors from overheating—a situation that is far from optimal when looking
at energy efficiency from a holistic perspective.
“Energy is arguably the number one challenge humanity will be facing in the 21st century. We cannot afford anymore to
design computer systems based on the criterion of computational speed and performance alone,” explains Prof. Dr.
Poulikakos of ETH Zurich, head of the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies and lead investigator of
this interdisciplinary project. “The new target must be high performance and low net power consumption supercomputers
and data centers. This means liquid cooling.”
With an innovative water-cooling system and direct heat reuse, Aquasar—the new supercomputer, which will be located at
the ETH Zurich and is planned to start operation in 2010, will reduce overall energy consumption by 40%. The system is
based on long-term joint research collaboration of ETH and IBM scientists in the field of chip-level water-cooling, as well
as on a concept for “water-cooled data centers with direct energy re-use” advanced by scientists at IBM’s Zurich Lab.
The water-cooled supercomputer will consist of two IBM BladeCenter® servers in one rack and will have a peak
performance of about 10 Teraflops.2
Each of the blades will be equipped with a microscale high-performance liquid cooler per processor, as well as input and
output pipeline networks and connections, which allow each blade to be connected and disconnected easily to the entire
system (see image).
Water as a coolant has the ability to capture heat about 4,000 times more efficiently than air, and its heat-transporting
properties are also far superior. Chip-level cooling with a water temperature of approximately 60°C is sufficient to keep the
chip at operating temperatures well below the maximally allowed 85°C. The high input temperature of the coolant results
in an even higher-grade heat as an output, which in this case will be about 65°C.
Collaboration and (Working) Prototype
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IBM Press Release
Hot-Water Cooled SuperMUC
Named Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer
German supercomputing center gets massive three petaflops system
while consuming 40% less energy
HAMBURG, Germany, June 18, 2012: Today, SuperMUC, an IBM hot-water cooled supercomputer built for the
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany, has been named the most powerful system in
Europe. Incredibly, the system can maintain a peak performance of three petaflops (three quadrillion calculations per
second) while consuming 40 percent less energy than a comparable air-cooled machine due to its innovative on chip hot-
water cooled design.
The official results were reported today during the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
Designed and developed by IBM scientists in Boeblingen, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland, SuperMUC gets its power
from an IBM System x® iDataPlex with 18,576 Intel Xeon processors -- equivalent to the work of more than XXX,000
PCs. Each processor is cooled with up to 60 degree Celsius water (140F), which is then repurposed to provide
campus heating.
“This year all of the electricity consumed by state-funded institutions across Germany are required to purchase 100%
sustainable energy. SuperMUC will help us keep our commitment, while giving the scientific community a best in class
system to test theories, design experiments and predict outcomes as never before,” Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode, Chairman of the
Board of Directors of LRZ.
Innovative water-cooling system
Up to 50 percent of an average air-cooled data center's energy consumption and carbon footprint today is not caused by
computing, but by powering the necessary cooling systems. To address this challenge, IBM scientists choose a radical, but
not new concept - water cooling, an ideal candidate because it removes heat 4,000 times more efficiently then air.
SuperMUC's innovative cooling system is based on bio-inspired micro-channel liquid coolers which are attached directly to
the processors, where most heat is generated.
The high temperature of the transported water results in an even higher-grade heat at the output, which in this case is up to
65 degrees Celsius (149 F).
Deployment
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Ideas management
TechnologyTrends
IndustryTrends
SocialTrends
Idea
Prototype
Patents AcademicPapers
PilotDeployment /Productization
Experience Papers
Industry Solution Labs
Research Solution Centers
Trend Scan3-10 years out
Research
Acquisitions
Licensing
Collaboration
FOAK
How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM
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© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Research - Zurich
Ideas management
TechnologyTrends
IndustryTrends
SocialTrends
Idea
Prototype
Patents AcademicPapers
PilotDeployment /Productization
Experience Papers
Industry Solution Labs
Research Solution Centers
Trend Scan3-10 years out
Research
Acquisitions
Licensing
Collaboration
FOAK
How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM
Transfer
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IBM Press Release
IBM Research creates
world’s smallest 3D map
New 3D microscopic technique improves development of nanoscale structures and
devices
Zurich, Switzerland, and San Jose, CA, 22 April 2010—IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a 3D map of the earth
so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt.1 The scientists accomplished this by means of a new,
breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex — 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil —
to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity. This patterning
technique opens new prospects for developing nanosized objects in fields such as electronics, future chip technology,
medicine, life sciences, and opto-electronics.
To demonstrate the technique’s unique capability, the team created several 3D and 2D patterns, using different materials for
each one as reported in the scientific journals Science and Advanced Materials:
• A 25-nanometer-high 3D replica of the Matterhorn, a famous Alpine mountain that soars 4,478 m (14,692 ft) high, was
created in molecular glass, representing a scale of 1:5 billion.2
• Complete 3D map of the world measuring only 22 by 11 micrometers was “written” on a polymer. At this size, 1000
world maps could fit on a grain of salt. In the relief, one thousand meters of altitude correspond to roughly eight
nanometers (nm). It is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2, and was created in only 2 minutes and 23
seconds.• 2D nano-sized IBM logo was etched 400-nm-deep into silicon, demonstrating the viability of the technique for typical
nanofabrication applications.
The science behind the technique
The core component of the new technique, which was developed by a team of IBM scientists, is a tiny, very sharp silicon
tip measuring 500 nanometers in length and only a few nanometers at its apex.
“Advances in nanotechnology are intimately linked to the existence of high-quality methods and tools for producing
nanoscale patterns and objects on surfaces,” explains physicist Dr. Armin Knoll of IBM Research – Zurich. “With its broad
functionality and unique 3D patterning capability, this nanotip-based patterning methodology is a powerful tool for
generating very small structures.”
The tip, similar to the kind used in atomic force microscopes, is attached to a bendable cantilever that controllably scans the
surface of the substrate material with the accuracy of one nanometer—a millionth of a millimeter. By applying heat and
force, the nano-sized tip can remove substrate material based on predefined patterns, thus operating like a “nanomilling”
machine with ultra-high precision.
Technology Transfer
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Technology Transfer
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Agenda
Dilemmas of Strategic Innovation Management
Introduction & Strategy
How an idea becomes an innovation at IBM
Questions & Discussion
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Agenda
Dilemmas of Strategic Innovation Management
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Dilemma #1Bottom Up and Top Down
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Dilemma #1Bottom Up and Top Down
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Dilemma #1Bottom Up and Top Down
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vs.
Dilemma #2Long-term research and short-term success
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Dilemma #3Promotion of intellectual property
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Dilemma #3Promotion of intellectual property
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How do you confront these dilemmas?Here is a snapshot from IBM Research.
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For Dilemma #1High Reputation
ReputationManagement of Corporate R&D Centers
Phase 2: Reputation Ranking
• Data normalized to top-ranking FHG, n=1138/25
Reputation Management of Corporate R&D Centers, Universität St. Gallen, 2009
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For Dilemma #1Strategy Management System
Strategist Area Strategist Sub-Strategist
STRATEGY
LINE
Lab Director/VP Direct Report* Senior Manager
Interlock
Interlock at the appropriate level within each cell of the line X strategy matrixInterlock at the appropriate level within each cell of
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zu Dilemma #1 & #2Research with Market Success
For Dilemma #1, #2IBM Research - Zurich
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www.rsc.org/loc
Volume 9 | Number 23 | 7 December 2009 | Pages 3313– 3452
ISSN 1473-0197
Miniaturisation for chemistry, physics, biology, & bioengineering
Delamarche
One-step immunodiagnostics
LuPressure measurement
LeeLabel-free detection with SERS
DemirciAutomated cell quanti!cation for HIV 1473-0197(2
009)9:23;1-U
As featured in:
See Huang et al., Lab Chip,
2009, 9, 3354–3359.
www.rsc.orgRegistered Charity Number 207890
‘‘Acoustic tweezers’’ enable on-chip continuous particle separation
through standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW)-induced acoustophoresis
in a micro!uidic channel.
Title: Continuous particle separation in a micro!uidic channel via standing
surface acoustic waves (SSAW)
Featuring work from the group of Professor T. J. Huang in
the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Volum
e 9 | Num
ber 23 | 2009 Lab on a C
hip
Pages 2253–2408
www.rsc.org/loc
Volume 9 | Number 23 | 7 December 2009 | Pages 3313– 3452
ISSN 1473-0197
Miniaturisation for chemistry, physics, biology, & bioengineering
Delamarche
One-step immunodiagnostics
LuPressure measurement
LeeLabel-free detection with SERS
DemirciAutomated cell quanti!cation for HIV 1473-0197(2
009)9:23;1-U
Volum
e 9 | Num
ber 23 | 2009
Lab on a Chip
Pages 3313–3452
TOTAL SYNTHESIS
Four of a kind
OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION
Better through blocking
WATER-OXIDATION CATALYSIS
Nanotubes provide stability
Single-molecule mug shot
OCTOBER 2010 VOL 2 NO 10
www.nature.com/naturechem
istry
nchem cover Oct 2010.indd 1
7/9/10 13:52:16
European Research Council Advanced Grant 2011
Robert-Wichard-Pohl-Preis 2011
ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award 2010
R&D Magazine Top 100 in 2010
Best Innovation European Identity Award 2010
Gerhard-Ertl-Preis for Young Scientists in 2010
For Dilemma #1 & #2Balanced Research Agenda
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Venture Capitalists ISVs Business
Partners
Universities
CommunityLeaders
CompetitorsEmployees
Regulatory Bodies
Investors
IT AnalystsAlumni
StandardsBodies
Policy-makers
ClientsInnovation Ecosystem
For Dilemma #3Open Innovation
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For Dilemma #3Open Innovation
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10% of our Pre/Post Docs are from EPFL
13 CDAs/JDAs with EPFL IBM Research Prize (computational
sciences) 30 EU FP Collaborations in the past
five years
EU Flagship Collaborations
April 2012 | The HBP Report | 1
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The Human Brain ProjectA Report to the European Commission
2011 Prize was awarded to Dr. Alessandro Marinoni (right)
For Dilemma #3Innovating with Partners
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Increase electronic device efficiency by 10× and eliminate power consumption of devices in standby mode Expertise and research to tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) and semiconducting nanowires to improve the efficient use of energy in electronics
Based on silicon (Si), silicon-germanium (SiGe) and III-V semiconducting nanowires
For Dilemma #3Project STEEPER
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Dishes of the Square Kilometer Array will produce 10 times the global internet traffic.
The SKA computer system will have the processing power of about one hundred million PCs.
The technology to handle the SKA doesn’t exist on the market today
For Dilemma #3Big Bang Meets Big Data
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Green supercomputing: 3-D chip stacks,
high-performance storage systems
Nanophotonics and optical interconnect technologies to optimize large data transfers
Storage and Memory: Phase change materials and advanced tape
Five Year, Public Private Partnership with Dutch government
Open Platform for Additional Partners
For Dilemma #3Technology Roadmap with ASTRON
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