07 May 13 | The Business Times by ng zhuo yang
JAPANESE camera and image processing modules maker Shikino High Tech has signed a research agreement with A*Star Institute of Microelectronics (IME) to develop a low power and high performance gyro sensor ASIC block for commercial hand held applications.This marks the Japanese company s first research and development (R&D) collaboration in Singapore since it established an office here last year,...
06 May 13 | The Business Times by grace ng
RENOWNED Swedish institution Hyper Island is partnering the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) to offer a series of week long courses for digital media professionals here at subsidised rates. Called the Hyper Island Lab Sessions, the five courses starting today are open to all, and will be subsidised by up to 70 per cent for Singapore citizens and permanent residents. "These lab...
21 March 13 | The Straits Times by Andy Ho Senior Writer
THE recent Budget introduced a $500 million Future of Manufacturing programme, one aim of which was to create a 3 D printing sector in Singapore. In 3 D printing, the object to be "printed" is assimilated layer by layer and then stacked up in incredibly thin layers to form the object. The "ink" such printers use could be liquid plastic for, say, a plaster box, or liquid chocolate, cheese and...