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VOLUME 37 - NUMBER 7
Product Preview: SEMICON West
July, 2022
Naprotek Expands through Growth and Innovation
By Larry Morrissey, General Manager, Naprotek
SAN JOSE, CA — First with the acquisition of SemiGen, followed by the addition of NexLogic Technologies, Naprotek has expanded threefold in
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Naprotek’s SMT facility in San Jose, California.
only a few months. Naprotek, an Edgewater Capi- tal Partners Portfolio Company, has enhanced its RF/microwave capabilities, including assembly and test, as well as further strengthening its automat- ed test capabilities for the semiconductor industry. Naprotek was first purchased by Edgewater,
the beginning of a portfolio strategy that now com- bines three high-tech organizations into one. After undergoing acquisition itself, plans were in place to grow the company quickly. Naprotek is currently hyper-focused on combining its best practices at its original facility with those at NexLogic’s site. Naprotek was purpose-built to serve regulated
markets and remains highly focused on NPI, quick- turn, and a high rate of change. NexLogic has been developed to support higher volume production, with a focus on ATE, medical and therapeutic prod- ucts, circuit designs including large form-factor, densely populated boards, and sustaining demand over time.
Supply Chain Challenges The impact of supply chain constraints and in-
flation is definitely real. The problem is it’s not just a single commodity group that’s been affected. Components that we used to be able to buy very in-
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Exascale Computer to be Built in Germany
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JUELICH, GERMANY —The Eu- ropean High Performance Com- puting Joint Undertaking has se- lected Forschungszentrum Jülich, a partner in Germany’s Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, to op- erate the first next-generation Eu- ropean supercomputer. The computer, which will
bear the name JUPITER (Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innova- tive and Transformative Exas- cale Research), will be installed as of 2023 in a specially designed building on the campus of Forschungszentrum Jülich. It is intended that the system will be operated by the Jülich Super- computing Centre (JSC), whose supercomputers JUWELS and JURECA currently rank among the most powerful in the world. LUMI, the fastest supercom-
puter in Europe since the begin- ning of June, is ranked third on the current TOP500 list of the
world’s most powerful supercom- puters. For the first time, an exas- cale computer has officially been at the top of this list since May: the U.S. supercomputer Frontier.
New Photonic Processor Uses
Polarization ORLANDO, FL — University of Central Florida researchers are developing new photonic materi- als that could one day help en- able low power, ultra-fast, light- based computing. The unique materials, known
JUWELS, Germany’s current fastest supercomputer.
JUPITER is now set to be-
come the first European super- computer to make the leap into the exascale class. In terms of computing power, it will be more powerful than five million mod- ern laptops or PCs. Just like Jülich’s current supercomputer
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as topological insulators, are like wires that have been turned inside out, where the current runs along the outside and the interior is in- sulated. Topological insulators are
important because they could be used in circuit designs that allow for more processing power to be crammed into a single space without generating heat, thus avoiding the overheating prob- lem today's smaller and smaller circuits face. The researchers demonstrat-
ed a new approach to create the materials that uses a novel, Continued on page 6
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