The MIDAS Ireland community is very sorry to hear of the passing of Professor Maurice Whelan, the inaugural recipient of our Lifetime Achievement Award. We convey our deepest condolences to his family at this very sad time. As founder of Silicon & Software Systems (S3) in 1986, Professor Whelan played Read more…
Introduction; ZE-Aviation Alliance CLG (ZEMAVA) is a sustainable aviation technology incubator hub established in the mid-west of Ireland to accelerate market readiness for zero-emission aviation technologies. ZEMAVA will build real environment testbed demonstrators to evaluate technologies as part of an entire regional aviation ecosystem. The goal will be optimization of technology Read more…
President Biden on Tuesday 9th August 2022 signed legislation providing $52 billion in subsidies to the semiconductor industry, kicking off what will be one of the largest industrial development programs the US federal government has ever administered. The long-pursued bipartisan legislation looks set to spur construction of more than a Read more…
MIDAS Ireland member, Infineon has sponsored the 2022 UCD Robo Race which is the culmination of the Robotics Design Project Elective First Year Module. The sponsorship included prize money for the top four teams and funding to provide more sensors and parts for the module in future years. The module Read more…
Wilmington, MA and Limerick, Ireland – March 4, 2022 – Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) a leading global high-performance semiconductor company, today announced it will invest €100 million over the next three years in ADI Catalyst, a 100,000 sq ft custom-built facility for innovation and collaboration located at its campus in the Raheen Read more…
In 1976 Analog Devices began operations in a small SFADCO advance factory unit in Limerick with a start-up team of 13 people – among them author of THE FUTURE YEARS, Pat Cunneen. Today, Analog’s Limerick wafer fabrication facility is one of the most important success stories in the company’s 50-year history. It Read more…
The theme for the Conference this year was “From bits to qubits …. empowering innovation for a better world “. Speakers include: Pat Falvey, Irish Explorer. Professor Bogdan Staszewski, UCD, Co-Founder of Equal1 Ronan Quinlan, joint CEO and co-founder at Taoglas Professor Séamus Davis, Professor of Physics University of Oxford and Quantum Read more…
