Emerging Technologies

Applied Materials and IIT-Kanpur recently gathered leaders across government, academia, nonprofits, trade groups and the technology industry for a flexible electronics workshop in New Delhi focused on innovation, collaboration and India’s role in this emerging field.

Head-mounted displays for virtual, augmented and mixed reality have the potential for a variety of applications but there is still a lot of room for improvement in display technology. Applied Ventures portfolio company Avegant is hoping to change that.

Applied Materials recently joined the United States Advanced Ceramics Association to deepen our connection with suppliers and application developers, and explore potential areas where our materials engineering leadership can help enable the next major technology inflections.

I recently sat down for a video interview with G. Dan Hutcheson, CEO of VLSIresearch, to discuss why the industry is moving to new memory solutions and what strategies are being implemented to alleviate the memory bottleneck.

Applied Materials speakers to highlight technologies moving flexible electronics from a vision to a reality at 2017FLEX.

There’s an emerging class of MEMS devices including fingerprint sensors and MEMS-based LIDAR that are poised to help improve our lives.

The power device landscape has become more complicated and fragmented with technology and roadmap changes, and consolidation among device manufacturers.

Applied Materials recently hosted top-tier bio-entrepreneurs from San Francisco’s QB3 incubator to explore opportunities for coupling great science with great engineering to create innovations in life science.

While the mainstay applications of the MEMS segment continue to be strong performers, 2016 saw a big push toward lots of new and potentially high-volume MEMS devices. This presents many exciting opportunities, but the challenges are plenty.