Information and communication technology faces new challenges, because of the new era of increasing connectivity and digitalization. The efficient sharing and storing of data need ever larger data centers and the means to transmit electric and optical signals. Digitalization itself brings its own challenges: There is increasing demand for highly dynamic networks that can transport, process, and analyze data.
Fraunhofer designs integrated, miniaturized, autonomous, and robust sensor systems and wireless networks and constructs high-frequency systems and electro-optical components. The provided services also include the optimization of processes and transfer of construction technologies for highly integrated systems, reliability testing and service life forecasting and consulting and eco-design services for sustainable ICT products.
We are at the dawn of a new age in computing. After the invention of the modern computer 70 years ago, computational power has been growing rapidly due to the exponential growth in technology. Where computers were once large enough…
Progressive digitalization driven by advanced assembly and packaging Digitalization is happening right now in almost all areas of our world. With increasing numbers of end products getting connected, more and more custom systems are required to run them – with…
Malina Metzing spends her working days in a very exclusive position: a software developer at the generally hardware-oriented Fraunhofer IZM. As the vision of the Internet of Things is steadily becoming a reality, unprecedented numbers of devices and machines have…
Electronic packaging stands on the cusp of a new wave of innovation, propelled by recent progress with autonomous cars and mobile consumer electronics. A group of industry leaders from Europe, the US, Japan, and Korea has assembled to put in…
When we think of the journey of electronic products, most of us are probably thinking about the journey that our new washing machine takes from the shop and worrying about getting it up the stairs and into our flat. Very…
RealIZM meets Pauline O’Callaghan, the CEO of ‘Hearable Labs’, a start-up developing futuristic technologies that will live inside your ear. RealIZM: Tell us about Hearable Labs. Pauline O’Callaghan: I should start by telling you what hearables are: generally, they’re true…
It’s an understatement to say that a lot has changed in microelectronics in the last fifty years – and the same goes for circuit boards. But even greater changes are afoot: with ever more data being used and shared, electrical…
In factories, cars, agriculture, medicine – microsystems are used everywhere. Julia Günther-Sorge, a researcher on microperipheric technologies at the Technical University of Berlin and member of the Sensor Nodes & Embedded Microsystems group working in cooperation with Fraunhofer IZM, has…
Welcome to our list of three disruptive technologies in microelectronics. This post will let you discover the trends that will significantly change the global technological development. Chips Embedded in Substrate It is hard to miss the unbroken trend towards ever-smaller…
The global trends shaping the early 21st century, like the rise of the IoT, create urgent new demand for high-precision location tracking systems. Modern positioning technology is slowly getting to the point where it is accurate enough to handle the…
