Advanced packaging technology is witnessing an exploding demand, driven largely by AI semiconductors. Placing multiple chips and/or components closer together shortens the distance data travels, leading to better overall performance, faster transmission of data and lower energy consumption. It seems we have finally found the solution to all our problems: making challenges like physical limits and strained power grids a thing of the past.

Et si la voiture redevenait un vrai lieu de vie ? Avec son concept-car ELO, Citroën propose une vision radicalement différente de la mobilité électrique, en s’éloignant des SUV pour renouer avec l’esprit des monospaces intelligents. Compact à l’extérieur mais étonnamment généreux à l’intérieur, ce véhicule électrique à six places a été conçu comme un espace modulable, capable de s’adapter aux temps de repos, de loisirs et de travail.
Pour donner corps à cette idée, Citroën s’est associé à Decathlon, dont l’ADN fonctionnel et accessible irrigue tout le projet. Ensemble, ils signent un concept qui ne cherche pas à impressionner par la performance pure, mais par l’usage, la simplicité et l’ingéniosité. Un manifeste roulant qui esquisse le futur de la marque.

Les parfums dits « de niche » n’ont jamais été aussi populaires. Mais personne n’avait osé aller aussi loin que Lidl US. Pour les fêtes, l’enseigne a dévoilé un objet marketing aussi drôle qu’inattendu : un parfum baptisé « Eau de Croissant », présenté dans un flacon… en forme de croissant. Une parodie élégante des codes du luxe, où l’art de vivre à la française devient matière à humour. Pensé comme une fausse fragrance haut de gamme, le parfum adopte les codes des maisons prestigieuses : teasing sophistiqué et photos léchées. Sauf qu’ici, la star n’est pas une note boisée rare ou un accord floral complexe, mais l’odeur chaude et beurrée du croissant Lidl à 49 cents, soit environ 0,45 €.

Le Consumer Electronics Show 2026, événement phare de l’innovation technologique, s’annonce incontournable en janvier prochain. Entre nouvelles tendances, produits inédits et annonces majeures, l’industrie mondiale de la tech se prépare à dévoiler ses avancées à Las Vegas.

The packaging is described as a food-grade film predominantly made from algae-based ingredients. It is designed to package and protect products like rice, pasta, ramen, oats, frozen vegetables, and pre-prepared outdoor meals. It can be washed in cold or warm water before use, ‘just like you’d wash a tomato’. Then it can be placed in boiling water, where the film dissolves ‘within a few minutes’ while the food cooks.

Objectives To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge.

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 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.

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.

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.