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India Today
4 days ago
- Business
- India Today
IIT Kharagpur offers free remote internship in AI, ML, and cloud tech till June 21
IIT Kharagpur's IEEE Computer Society Student Branch Chapter (CS SBC), in collaboration with the IEEE Kharagpur Section, has officially launched the Summer Internship Programme 2025, offering an exceptional opportunity for aspiring tech professionals to gain research and industry exposure in cutting-edge domains. The internship is completely online, allowing students from across India to participate two-to-three-month internship is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students (BTech, MTech, BSc, MSc, BCA, MCA, or equivalent), offering them a chance to work on real-world projects and gain mentorship from experts affiliated with IIT Kharagpur and IEEE. The deadline to apply is June 21, DOMAINSInterns can choose to work in one or more of the following domains:AI/ML-Driven Network ManagementCloud-Edge Computing & Vehicular NetworkingMachine Learning & Deep LearningGenerative AI & Explainable AIThe program is designed to cater to students with a foundational understanding of programming, computer networks, operating systems, DBMS, engineering mathematics, and basic knowledge of machine learning and Python. However, prior expertise is not PROCESS AND REQUIREMENTSTo apply, candidates must submit a Google Form application along with the following documents:Updated CV (PDF, max 10 MB)Passport-size photo (PDF/Image, max 1 MB)Scanned signature (PDF/Image, max 1 MB)Valid student ID card (PDF/Image, max 1 MB)Applications must be submitted through the official form. Shortlisted candidates will be notified by the end of June, and the internship is scheduled to commence in early July here to check more details for AND VALUEWhile unpaid, the internship offers immense value through e-certificates, project mentorship, and the opportunity to engage with IIT Kharagpur faculty and IEEE professionals. Participants will gain crucial skills, portfolio projects, and references that will strengthen their academic and professional initiative is aimed at preparing the next generation of tech talent with practical experience and exposure to high-growth fields in science and engineering.
Coin Geek
5 days ago
- Business
- Coin Geek
Store excess solar power production in Bitcoin: IEEE study
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dynamic solar power systems that switch between selling excess electricity back to the grid and using it for digital asset mining may be an answer to energy problems, according to an IEEE case study. The study highlights the two critical problems for block reward miners: massive energy consumption and the resulting environmental pollution. 1/6A groundbreaking new study shows that Bitcoin mining is the most effective way to accelerate rollout of solar panels across the world's cities: More effective than using either subsidies or Batteries by an order of dive in 👇 Renewable energy sources, such as solar panels, are often touted as an answer to the electricity demands of digital currency. Yet, based on the current way that renewables are used and the technological and economic challenges that remain, it isn't possible for them to meet the demand for energy without further technological advancement and changes to the current energy system. One of the specific problems—one that is particularly prevalent in Finland, the location of the paper's case study—is that peak loads occur in winter, while renewables such as solar only hit peak generation during summer. This cascades into a broader problem: the perception that the fixed investment cost of getting a solar system up and running is not worth the ultimate savings of switching to renewables. A common solution to this problem has been to use batteries capable of storing excess electricity until needed. However, this is only so useful: batteries must be discharged past a certain point. 4/6 That's because batteries only give so much storage before they have to be dischargedThis study compared Battery to Bitcoin miningThe difference was stark Bitcoin is not just a little big better than batteries, it is 4.6x better than batteries: a facemelting 57.7% ROI — Daniel Batten (@DSBatten) June 10, 2025 The IEEE study essentially proposes storing the value associated with the excess electricity—not in a battery, but in Bitcoin. The study suggests a system that channels excess energy production in peak times—such as summer—into digital asset mining. This works on similar principles to a model already implemented in domestic renewable production, whereby homeowners with solar power can sell back excess production to the grid. Under the newly proposed system, homeowners could switch between putting their excess energy back into the grid and putting it into digital asset mining, depending on which is most competitive at the time. The benefits of this are myriad. Not only does it help populate the digital asset mining ecosystem with clean, renewable energy, but the savings and returns given to homeowners can help reduce the overall annual cost of housing. It also helps offset one of the drawbacks of the sellback model, which is the overall reduction of electricity price due to higher supply, thereby making it less viable for homeowners to sell. The envisioned model was applied to a 24-apartment building in Helsinki, Finland. The report contains a case study undertaken in Finland using a 24-apartment building in Helsinki with half of its roof space taken up by solar panels. It was found that the building's annual costs could be reduced by 68.1%. 'It has been shown that employing the proposed hedging mechanism will result in sufficient encouragement to invest in PV systems and decrease the annual cost of residential apartments,' reads the study. The study notes that though the case study bears out the assumptions, more work is still needed to test the model's viability. This could include investigating the potential of peer-to-peer energy trading among apartment tenants and investigating the role that government policy could play in encouraging adoption. Watch: Bryan Daugherty: Proof of ESG initiative through a sustainable blockchain
Hindustan Times
13-06-2025
- Science
- Hindustan Times
Master of disguise: Meet the inventor of a state-of-the-art invisibility cloak
In some ways, he is himself the stuff of science-fiction. For thousands of years, dating to ancient Greek and Welsh myths, then sci-fi and the worlds of HG Wells and Harry Potter, storytellers and scientists have toyed with the idea of the invisibility cloak. Wells, who foresaw the aircraft and army tank, atomic bomb and Wikipedia, wrote of a scientist committed to invisibility in The Invisible Man (1897). This scientist learnt how to change the way light reflected off his body. In Canada, George Eleftheriades has done something similar. He can't erase himself from view, but he has so far been able to hide large, bulky objects from radar, using just a thin layer of rather magical antennae. It's a bit like noise-cancelling headphones, he says, with remarkable modesty. (It isn't that simple at all.) But before we get to how it works, a bit about who he is. Eleftheriades, 60, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto. Growing up in Cyprus, he was obsessed with science as a child. He had chemicals bubbling over in his room, microorganisms squirming under microscopes, and burn marks on the wooden floor, he says, with a laugh. He was fascinated by radiowaves, which felt a bit like magic. As he grew, he had his imagination sparked by the way ancient Greek philosophers, particularly Heraclitus, viewed scientific concepts. (Heraclitus, of course, famously expressed the idea of constant flux by noting that one can't step into the same river twice.) Following where his heart led, Eleftheriades studied electrical engineering in Athens, after which he moved to the US for a Master's and PhD from University of Michigan. He worked on ultra-sensitive radiowave receivers in Switzerland from 1994 to '97, and has been at University of Toronto ever since. A decade ago, he became something of a 'stealth' agent. In 2015, the Canadian military reached out to ask if he could take the work done so far on stealth technology, and build on it. He has now won the prestigious IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Electromagnetics Award for his work on metamaterials and metasurfaces, and the creation of an 'invisibility cloak'. *** How does the cloak work? Well, we 'see' an object, as Eleftheriades points out, when light hits it and scatters. Based on how the rays are scattered and reflected, we perceive shapes, colours, depth and distance. His cloaking device emits waves of its own that cancel out the scattering as it occurs. (In this way, it is a bit like noise-cancelling headphones, which emit soundwaves to counter soundwaves.) His device does this through the use of metamaterials, which are manmade materials designed to behave in ways that normal materials cannot. Fundamentally, they are built to control the flow of waves — radio, sound, light — in unprecedented ways. The world's first metamaterial was created in the US in 2001, and research has sped up since. Key applications include lenses that can see more clearly, more refined diagnostic scans, vastly improved antennas and sensors… and 'invisibility cloaks'. In the case of this last one, early efforts required bulky 3D structures, and though they did deceive radar they did not do it as effectively. Eleftheriades's 'cloak' is a relatively elegant network of antennae, something like a circuit board, that sits on the surface of an object to be rendered invisible. As it interferes with incoming light waves, it forces them to bend or scatter differently, creating the impression that the object simply isn't there. 'We tried this first with a flat object and then with a cylinder,' he says. 'Both 'disappear' in that they cannot be seen by any radar system.' *** There's a lot the 'cloak' can do beyond hiding stealth weapons. Metamaterials have already been used to make lenses that, for the first time in history, are flat and homogenous. Eleftheriades and his team have used such lenses to make super-microscopes that are 10 times as powerful as existing equivalents. He and his team also recently developed a metasurface that could be placed along walls, to reflect radiowaves from cellphones and wi-fi routers in ways that magnify their strength and quality. What about making something actually vanish from sight? The closest he has come to doing this is when he put the 'cloak' on a car and had it zoom past speed sensors. It left no impression on the doppler-wave detectors at all. To the observer, of course, the car was moving past in plain view. Any chance that may change? 'The stuff you see in Star Trek, where something disappears behind a shield and is just gone… we're not there yet,' he says. 'That is worlds more complicated.' Seeing is still believing, then… at least offline, and at least for now.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
SK hynix Presents Future DRAM Technology Roadmap at IEEE VLSI 2025
- SK hynix participates in IEEE VLSI symposium 2025 in Kyoto, Japan June 8-12 - Considering switching to 4F² VG platform from 10-nm level technology due to scaling limitation with current DRAM technology - Company to present long-term technological vision and work with industry to bring future of DRAM into reality SEOUL, South Korea, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", announced today that it presented a new DRAM technology roadmap for the next 30 years and the direction for a sustainable innovation at the IEEE VLSI symposium 2025* held in Kyoto, Japan. * IEEE VLSI (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Very Large Scale Integration) symposium: One of the most prestigious academic events in the field of semiconductor circuit and process technology, presenting academic achievement in next-generation semiconductor, AI, memory chip and packaging. The symposium is held in turn in United States and Japan annually. Cha Seon Yong, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SK hynix, delivered on June 10th a plenary session on "Driving Innovation in DRAM Technology: Towards a Sustainable Future". In his speech, CTO Cha explained that it is increasingly difficult to improve performance and capacity with scaling through current technology platform*. "In order to overcome such limitations, SK hynix will apply the 4F² VG (Vertical Gate) platform and 3D DRAM technology to technologies of 10-nanometer level or below with innovation in structure, material and components," he said. * Tech Platform: A technological framework that can be applied to various generations of products The 4F²* VG** platform is a next-generation memory technology that minimizes the cell area of DRAM and enables high-integration, high-speed and low-power through a vertical gate structure. * 4F²: The area occupied by one cell, a unit to store data, is indicated as F2. F indicates the minimum feature size of a semiconductor. Therefore, 4F2 is an integration technology to put more cells in a chip which one cell occupies an area of 2F by 2F. ** VG (Vertical Gate): A structure that a gate, which acts as a switch of a transistor, is vertically placed and surrounded by channels. Currently, it is a flat structure where a gate is laid horizontally on top of channels. Currently, 6F2 cells are common, but by applying 4F2 cell and wafer bonding technology that puts the circuit part below the cell area, cell efficiency and electrical characteristics can be improved. CTO Cha also introduced 3D DRAM as the main pillar for the future DRAM along with VG. CTO Cha said that although some in the industry warn of cost increase according to the number of layers stacked, it can be solved by constant technological innovation. Along with structural breakthrough, the company will also strive to find a new growth engine by sophisticating technologies of critical materials and components of DRAM to lay foundation for the next 30 years. "Until around 2010, DRAM technology was expected to face limitations at 20 nanometers, but with constant innovation, we have made it this far," said CTO Cha. "SK hynix will continue to guide the future of long-term technological innovation to be a milestone for young engineers in the field of DRAM and maintain cooperation within the industry to bring future of DRAM into reality." On the last day of the event, Joodong Park, vice president who leads the Next Gen DRAM TF, will present his findings from a recent research on how VG and wafer bonding technology affect the electrical characteristics of DRAM. About SK hynix Inc. SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips ("DRAM") and flash memory chips ("NAND flash") for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at View original content: SOURCE SK hynix Inc.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
SK hynix Presents Future DRAM Technology Roadmap at IEEE VLSI 2025
- SK hynix participates in IEEE VLSI symposium 2025 in Kyoto, Japan June 8-12 - Considering switching to 4F² VG platform from 10-nm level technology due to scaling limitation with current DRAM technology - Company to present long-term technological vision and work with industry to bring future of DRAM into reality SEOUL, South Korea, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", announced today that it presented a new DRAM technology roadmap for the next 30 years and the direction for a sustainable innovation at the IEEE VLSI symposium 2025* held in Kyoto, Japan. * IEEE VLSI (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Very Large Scale Integration) symposium: One of the most prestigious academic events in the field of semiconductor circuit and process technology, presenting academic achievement in next-generation semiconductor, AI, memory chip and packaging. The symposium is held in turn in United States and Japan annually. Cha Seon Yong, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SK hynix, delivered on June 10th a plenary session on "Driving Innovation in DRAM Technology: Towards a Sustainable Future". In his speech, CTO Cha explained that it is increasingly difficult to improve performance and capacity with scaling through current technology platform*. "In order to overcome such limitations, SK hynix will apply the 4F² VG (Vertical Gate) platform and 3D DRAM technology to technologies of 10-nanometer level or below with innovation in structure, material and components," he said. * Tech Platform: A technological framework that can be applied to various generations of products The 4F²* VG** platform is a next-generation memory technology that minimizes the cell area of DRAM and enables high-integration, high-speed and low-power through a vertical gate structure. * 4F²: The area occupied by one cell, a unit to store data, is indicated as F2. F indicates the minimum feature size of a semiconductor. Therefore, 4F2 is an integration technology to put more cells in a chip which one cell occupies an area of 2F by 2F. ** VG (Vertical Gate): A structure that a gate, which acts as a switch of a transistor, is vertically placed and surrounded by channels. Currently, it is a flat structure where a gate is laid horizontally on top of channels. Currently, 6F2 cells are common, but by applying 4F2 cell and wafer bonding technology that puts the circuit part below the cell area, cell efficiency and electrical characteristics can be improved. CTO Cha also introduced 3D DRAM as the main pillar for the future DRAM along with VG. CTO Cha said that although some in the industry warn of cost increase according to the number of layers stacked, it can be solved by constant technological innovation. Along with structural breakthrough, the company will also strive to find a new growth engine by sophisticating technologies of critical materials and components of DRAM to lay foundation for the next 30 years. "Until around 2010, DRAM technology was expected to face limitations at 20 nanometers, but with constant innovation, we have made it this far," said CTO Cha. "SK hynix will continue to guide the future of long-term technological innovation to be a milestone for young engineers in the field of DRAM and maintain cooperation within the industry to bring future of DRAM into reality." On the last day of the event, Joodong Park, vice president who leads the Next Gen DRAM TF, will present his findings from a recent research on how VG and wafer bonding technology affect the electrical characteristics of DRAM. About SK hynix Inc. SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world's top tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips ("DRAM") and flash memory chips ("NAND flash") for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company's shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at View original content: SOURCE SK hynix Inc.
