OTHER ELECTRONICS & NANOTECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY UPDATE
February 2020
McIlvaine Company
Palomar Moves to New HQ
Palomar Technologies, a company that develops process solutions for photonics
and microelectronic device packaging, has moved to a new headquarters in
Carlsbad, California and expanded its facilities to over 110,000 square feet.
“Since acquiring SST International [renamed to SST Vacuum Reflow Systems] in
2015, our global business has rapidly developed with a new customer base and
these new facilities make it possible for Palomar to meet the growing global
demand for our entire product line,” said Bruce Hueners, CEO and president for
Palomar Technologies and SST Vacuum Reflow Systems.
“Additionally, our Innovation Centre, which specializes in contract assembly and
process development, has grown substantially and these new facilities will
provide a top-notch laboratory, precision manufacturing, and training
facilities.”
Palomar has its roots in the aerospace and defense industry with its origins as
a technology division within Hughes Aircraft. Over the 40+ years of supporting
the semiconductor and photonics industries, Palomar Technologies has expanded
beyond its traditional segments across automotive (LiDAR & power modules),
medical semiconductor/biophotonics, microwave, RF/wireless, 5G, Datacom,
telecom, industrial and a few niche markets.
Palomar says it is in the unique position to work with customers from
start-up/prototype all the way to volume production, as it is a logical
transition for the customer to move through Palomar Innovation Centers to
purchase their own Palomar equipment line.
The new facilities complement Palomar's expansion in 2019 of its contract
manufacturing facilities in Singapore, as well as collaborating with the
Electronics and Photonics Innovation Centre (EPIC) in Paignton (Torbay), in the
United Kingdom to open a demonstration/prototyping laboratory to serve its
growing European customer base.
Seagate Technology’s Lyve Labs Opens Doors in Tel Aviv
Seagate® Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data storage and
management solutions, officially opens its Lyve™ Labs Israel.
Lyve Labs’ mission is to form partnerships with businesses in order to enable
innovations by providing simple, secure, and efficient ways to work with
exabytes of data. The initiative empowers the seamless movement of data,
optimizing its business value both in flight and at rest.
“The reason Seagate created Lyve Labs is because we understand that innovation
cannot happen in silos,” said Seagate’s CEO Dr. Dave Mosley. “It’s a work of
collaboration. The innovators at Lyve Labs are indebted to others. In
turn—drawing on over 40 years of Seagate’s research and development—we want to
help enable innovations that use data for the good of humanity.”
Israel is a vibrant hub of datasphere innovation, with the largest number of
startups per capita in the world and with more than 10% of the labor force
employed in the high-tech industry. The Lyve Labs center in Tel Aviv has already
attracted a number of startups looking for solutions that harness data for the
good of humanity. Partnerships tackling data challenges are already in progress.
“We want to both help the ecosystem and learn from it,” said Erez Baum, head of
Lyve Labs Israel. “Lyve Labs is as much a two-way learning platform as a
co-creation center. The goal is to learn from our partners’ data challenges and
develop solutions in collaboration with them to help them be more competitive in
this data-driven economy.”
The companies partnering with Lyve Labs Israel take on data challenges as
relevant as survival during an earthquake. “Our solution is currently based on
the cloud, but we need to be closer to the edge,” said Benny Sasson, CTO of
SeismicAI, the startup with the globally unique offering of earthquake early
warning “wherever it’s needed.”
“We received a request from the National Institute of Natural Resources in
Canada that our platform be installed as an on-premise, encrypted, secure,
holistic solution—because of national security and data security concerns,”
Sasson said. “So that’s why we turned to Lyve Labs. We want to transform our
solution into, for example, a rack we can bring to our client and plug into
their data center, and attain compliance with all regulations and resources
there.”
HUB Security partnered with Lyve Labs Israel because it wants to benefit from
Seagate’s expertise in trusted data solutions. “Built by ex-military
cybersecurity experts, HUB Security offers the next-gen tamper-proof hardware
security module platform designed for multitenant and high-performance
operation, as well as flexibility to be easily customized for any advanced
algorithm and business application,” said Eyal Moshe, the CEO of HUB Security.
“We asked Lyve Labs to help us with a proof of concept of this solution.” For
this purpose, a streamable hackathon may be hosted at the Tel Aviv center later
this year.
Among other projects, the innovation center in Tel Aviv conducted a successful
trial run of the Lyve™ Drive Shuttle. The project, which involved collaboration
with UPS, proved that moving data physically in shuttles via its reliable global
shipping network instead of uploading can be more cost-effective and faster at
scale. The Lyve Drive Shuttle was launched at the 2020 CES in Las Vegas as a
part of the Lyve Drive Mobile Systems family.
In addition to proofs of concept, solutions offered by Lyve Labs Israel will
include consultations with experts who can help solve data challenges, design
and qualification services, playbooks for scaling efficiently, reference
architectures, services that can optimize data management flows, and
infrastructure and test-bench facilities. In the spirit of open innovation,
reference architectures and case studies will be published publicly online so
that other companies can easily implement similar solutions.
Lyve Labs Israel will be Seagate’s flagship innovation center. Another Lyve Labs
center is located in Longmont, Colorado, United States. Additional Lyve Labs
centers are being planned globally.
About Lyve Labs Israel:
Seagate Technology’s Lyve Labs is a collaborative platform through which Seagate
partners with innovators, startups, and enterprises to create solutions that
harness the power of data. The innovation center is located at 28 Ha'arbaa
Street, North Tower 18th Floor, Tel-Aviv, Israel 6473925. Learn more by visiting
https://labs.seagate.com.
About Seagate:
Seagate crafts the datasphere, helping to maximize humanity’s potential by
innovating world-class, precision-engineered data management solutions with a
focus on sustainable partnerships.
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