Industry News - Engineering.com https://www.engineering.com/category/industry/industry-news/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:41:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/0-Square-Icon-White-on-Purpleb-150x150.png Industry News - Engineering.com https://www.engineering.com/category/industry/industry-news/ 32 32 Fujifilm introduces FUJIFILM Frontier DX400W compact inkjet printer https://www.engineering.com/fujifilm-introduces-fujifilm-frontier-dx400w-compact-inkjet-printer/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:19:00 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141453 DX400W enables on-demand printing of not only standard photo prints, but also a wide range of photo products including photo books and calendars.

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FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Imaging Division, announced the launch of its Frontier DX400W compact inkjet printer (DX400W). The latest addition to Fujifilm’s Frontier printer lineup, DX400W boasts improvements in printing output, including the addition of two new ink colors, as well as faster image processing/printing times and a smaller overall footprint1.

Main features

High-image quality and capability to print a wide range of photo products

  • Featuring a 250ml high-capacity 6-ink system consisting of C (cyan), M (magenta), Y (yellow), K (black), SB (sky blue) and P (pink), which enables more faithful reproduction of skin textures and subtle color changes.
  • Fujifilm’s proprietary image processing technology, IMAGE INTELLIGENCE™2, draws on decades of expertise in the photography field to automatically correct underexposure, backlighting, high-contrast, underexposure, and overexposure issues, producing highly precise prints.

Updated design, increased efficiency

  • A new structural design increases the durability of the printer body, reducing the need for frequent hardware replacements and minimizing maintenance efforts. As a result of this design improvement, the printer can print a total of up to 400,000 sheets3 over the lifetime of the product. Additionally, with a 30% reduction in size over the prior model, DX400W fits seamlessly into a variety of challenging spaces.

Enhanced usability for diversified printing business needs

  • In addition to USB connectivity, DX400W now supports wired LAN connections. The addition of LAN compatibility allows for more flexible functionality at retail, accommodating customer-specific installation environments. This not only improves convenience for retail photo shops but also caters to a wide range of applications in business and event settings, meeting diverse user needs.

Reduced waste with high-capacity ink

  • Ink capacity has been increased from 200ML in the prior model to 250ML in DX400W, improving operational efficiency by reducing the need for frequent ink replacement. Additionally, DX400W uses pouch-style ink supply units instead of traditional cartridge-based systems.

The FUJIFILM Frontier DX400W photo printer will be available September 2025.

1 When compared to FUJIFILM Frontier DX100.

2 Image Intelligence can be used by connecting workflow management software (MS Software) with the printer.

3 The number of printable sheets varies depending on usage conditions.

For more information, visit fujifilm.com.

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CDimension launches ultra-thin 2D semiconductor materials https://www.engineering.com/cdimension-launches-ultra-thin-2d-semiconductor-materials/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:09:00 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141448 Ultra-thin materials boost energy efficiency up to 1,000×, supporting future integration of compute, memory, and power functions.

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CDimension announced the commercial availability of its ultra-thin 2D semiconductor materials, marking a key milestone in bringing lab-scale innovation into practical, scalable use. These materials are now available for commercial sampling and integration, already being evaluated by early customers, and represent the first visible step toward CDimension’s long-term vision of vertically integrated chips that unify compute, memory, and power into a single, high-efficiency system.

As AI, robotics, quantum computing, and edge workloads grow in complexity, traditional silicon-based architectures are hitting physical and architectural limits. Rising energy costs, slower data transfer, and fragmented chiplet packaging are constraining progress across industries. CDimension is solving these challenges at the foundation, starting with new materials and leading toward a monolithic 3D architecture based on atomically-thin chiplets designed to deliver up to:

  • 100× higher energy efficiency
  • 100× improvement in integration density
  • 10× higher system-level operating frequency through reduced parasitic

Founded by Jiadi Zhu, an MIT Ph.D. in electrical engineering with deep expertise in 2D materials and monolithic 3D integration, advised by MIT professor Tomás Palacios, director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories and a global leader in electronic materials, CDimension combines deep technical innovation with a clear roadmap for real-world deployment.

At the core of the company’s commercial debut is a proprietary low-temperature process that enables the direct growth of ultra-thin 2D materials, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), onto finished silicon wafers without damaging underlying circuitry. The resulting layers are atomically thin, low-leakage, and energy efficient, supporting dense vertical stacking and enabling new levels of integration. While 2D materials have long held promise for next-generation chips, adoption has been slowed by manufacturing and integration hurdles. CDimension’s process overcomes these challenges with a Si back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible approach that supports uniform, wafer-scale monolayer film growth across full silicon wafers, a key step in moving 2D materials from lab experiments to scalable commercial use. In internal testing, CDimension’s materials have demonstrated up to a 1,000× improvement in transistor-level energy efficiency compared to silicon.

In addition to MoS2, CDimension provides a full suite of high-quality 2D materials, including n-type, p-type, metallic, and insulating films, via a wafer-scale deposition process compatible with silicon manufacture. This allows seamless integration with existing manufacturing workflows and forms the materials backbone of CDimension’s broader vision to unify compute, memory, and power in a single chip architecture.

CDimension’s 2D materials are now available for commercial sampling and integration at research-accessible cost. Early customers across industry and academia are already evaluating the technology in production-relevant settings and the company is expanding access to additional research and development teams.

To support early adopters, CDimension also offers customized services through its Premier Membership program, including monolayer deposition over 3D structures and on up to 12-inch arbitrary substrates for prototyping and fabricating 2D-material-based circuits.

While 2D materials are CDimension’s first commercial release, they are just the beginning. The company’s vertically integrated architecture is designed to deliver system-wide performance gains through monolithic 3D integration and localized power management. CDimension holds multiple patents and patent applications across its materials, integration methods, and chip architectures, giving system builders the hardware foundation they need to overcome today’s bottlenecks and scale for tomorrow’s demands.

For more information, visit cdimension.com.

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Lattice, Mitsubishi Electric partner for industrial automation experiences https://www.engineering.com/lattice-mitsubishi-electric-partner-for-industrial-automation-experiences/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:05:00 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141445 Advanced factory automation experiences with our FPGA solutions that offer class-leading power efficiency, system bandwidth, reliability.

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Lattice Semiconductor announced its low power Lattice CertusPro-NX FPGAs now enable Mitsubishi Electric’s Computerized Numerical Controller (CNC) solutions to bring power efficient and reliable factory automation experiences. This collaboration was announced at the Lattice APAC Tech Summit in Tokyo, where Mitsubishi Electric participated as a guest keynote speaker. Hosted today, Lattice APAC Tech Summit showcased the company’s latest low power FPGA technology with industry leaders including Mitsubishi Electric, Desay, Furukawa AS, Glory LTD, LIPS, and NXP alongside more than 150 customers and partners in the APAC region.

Mitsubishi Electric’s industry-leading CNC solutions leverage the cutting-edge interface bridging capabilities of Lattice CertusPro-NX FPGAs to create high accuracy, adaptability, and efficient real-time processing. These features are ideal for a variety of Industrial applications, including machine building, Automotive, and electronics.

For more information, visit latticesemi.com.

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MachineWorks releases MachineWorks GPU 1.0 https://www.engineering.com/machineworks-releases-machineworks-gpu-1-0/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:49:52 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141425 MachineWorks GPU handles material removal and collision detection on the GPU instead of the CPU.

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MachineWorks Ltd has released MachineWorks 8.7, which includes the initial version of MachineWorks GPU—a new tool that performs geometric modeling operations using the GPU.

Large three to five axis job simulated in seconds using MachineWorks GPU

Highlights include:

  • Up to 10x faster performance using GPU-based material removal simulation
  • New multiple Boolean APIs enhance performance for in-session Boolean ops
  • Improvements to profile preparation including optimisations for saw-tooth profiles
  • More targeted and faster pruning of large snapshot trees
  • Improved eccentric turning, including support in the Application Framework Library

MachineWorks GPU runs material removal modeling and collision-detection tasks on the GPU instead of the CPU. GPUs typically have significantly more processing cores than CPUs, enabling improved performance for operations that benefit from data parallelization. 

Results from large three-axis and five-axis jobs are now returned more quickly, with mid-sized jobs computed in under a second.

For more information, visit machineworks.com.

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Green Industry Pros awards Vectorworks Landmark 2025 https://www.engineering.com/green-industry-pros-awards-vectorworks-landmark-2025/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:45:00 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141427 Landscape design software honored for innovation, usability, and professional value.

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Green Industry Pros, a magazine for landscape professionals, has selected Vectorworks Landmark 2025 as an Editor’s Choice Award recipient. Developed by Vectorworks, Inc., the design and BIM software was chosen by the publication’s editorial team and advisory board for its features and contributions to the industry.

Vectorworks Landmark 2025 is a design and modeling software tailored for landscape architects and designers. It offers tools to support visual communication, improve collaboration, streamline documentation, align with industry standards, and increase workflow efficiency.

Green Industry Pros offers updates on products, trends, technologies, and business practices relevant to landscape contractors and maintenance professionals. It covers topics such as lawn care, installation, irrigation, and power equipment.

View the award recipients on the Green Industry Pros website.

For more information about Vectorworks, Inc., visit vectorworks.net.

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STMicroelectronics and Metalenz sign license agreement https://www.engineering.com/stmicroelectronics-and-metalenz-sign-license-agreement/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:42:31 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141416 New license agreement enabling the proliferation of metasurface optics across high-volume consumer, automotive and industrial markets.

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STMicroelectronics announced a new license agreement. The agreement broadens ST’s capability to use Metalenz IP to produce advanced metasurface optics while leveraging ST’s unique technology and manufacturing platform combining 300mm semiconductor and optics production, test and qualification.

The new license agreement aims to address the growing market opportunity for metasurface optics projected to experience significant growth to reach $2B by 2029; largely driven by the industry’s role in emerging display and imaging applications.

For more information, visit st.com.

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Lumus expands partnership with Quanta https://www.engineering.com/lumus-expands-partnership-with-quanta/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:35:00 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141413 to scale mass manufacturability of reflective waveguide-based optical engines for AR glasses.

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Lumus announced an expanded partnership with Quanta Computer Inc., a global technology manufacturing leader, and long-time Lumus supply chain partner for its optical engines. The collaboration strengthens Lumus’ supply chain infrastructure and affirms the company’s readiness to deliver mass-manufactured waveguide-based optical engines to support the growing AR market.

As part of the expansion, Quanta has invested in dedicated production lines tailored to Lumus’ waveguide technology and transitioned to an automated manufacturing approach. These advances have enabled higher-yield, cost-effective production of thinner, more compact waveguides – laying the groundwork for future generations of high-performance, consumer-ready AR glasses.

To date, more than 55,000 Lumus waveguides have been shipped to customers, with the vast majority produced by global partners, such as Quanta, over the past five years. Because Lumus waveguides are designed to be manufactured on a unified infrastructure, all field-of-view variants, from low to high fields of view, are produced using the same streamlined process.

This shared platform approach ensures consistency in output while reducing complexity and cost for OEMs. It also accelerates the development of next-generation products, as new waveguides can be brought to market using existing infrastructure without retooling or process changes.

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Supermicro ships new 4-socket servers with Intel Xeon 6 CPUs https://www.engineering.com/supermicro-ships-new-4-socket-servers-with-intel-xeon-6-cpus/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:34:33 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141408 Performance increase of up to 50% compared to the previous generation of Intel processors.

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Super Micro Computer, Inc. is now shipping the industry’s most advanced 4-socket servers for large-scale database and enterprise applications. Using the latest Intel Xeon 6 Processors with Performance-Cores (P-Cores), these new servers are CXL 2.0 ready and are ideal for HPC, mission-critical workloads, and in-memory databases. Other applications that will benefit from these systems are those that require a very large memory footprint with massive processing power, or scientific simulation applications that rely heavily on CPU computing with low latencies. As a critical component of Supermicro’s Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS), these new servers offer significantly higher performance than previous generations of 4-socket systems.

Now Shipping 4 – Socket Servers with the Latest Intel Xeon 6 Processors.

For more information on Supermicro 4-socket server solutions, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/mp

Software Certified

Supermicro 4-socket servers are certified for SAP HANA and Oracle Linux. The large memory pools available to these systems allow superior SAP and Oracle performance as all workloads can be scaled up in a single node without the latency of horizontally scaling across networks. In addition, the 2U 4-socket systems can host two double-width GPUs while the 4U system can host up to 6 double-width GPUs for real-time or batch AI training and inferencing, tied to enterprise database applications. The unmatched versatility and capability of these systems future proof SAP and Oracle deployments for rapidly evolving generative AI automation and ERP workflows.

These new 4-socket servers reduce complexity when creating a high-performance data center for enterprise applications, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Databases, Analytics, Business Intelligence, ERP, CRM, Virtualization, and Scientific workloads. By bringing massive amounts of computing, memory, and storage resources together within a single instance of the operating system, very large workloads can be accommodated, without the complexity of implementing parallel processing across multiple nodes.

For more information, visit supermicro.com.

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Siemens’ Veloce CS selected by Arm for Neoverse Compute Subsystems https://www.engineering.com/siemens-veloce-cs-selected-by-arm-for-neoverse-compute-subsystems/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:45:01 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141404 for Neoverse Compute Subsystems verification and validation.

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Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Veloce Strato CS and Veloce proFPGA CS have been deployed at Arm, a longtime user of Veloce, as part of its design flow for Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS).

The Veloce CS system is available in a modular, blade-based configuration that is fully compliant with modern datacenter requirements for easy installation, very low power consumption, superior cooling, and compact footprint. Veloce proFPGA CS is also offered as a desktop lab version for additional user flexibility.

Veloce Strato CS delivers high emulation performance, maintains fast full visibility debug, and scales from 40 million gates (MG) to 40 billion gates (BG). Veloce PCIe composite device (PCD) technology is an emulation solution suite designed to help verify customer IP within Arm CSS. The PCD technology integrates Arm Compliance Suite (ACS), PCIe and NVMe, in one unified system visualization and debug environment enabled by Veloce Protocol Analyzer.

Veloce proFPGA CS delivers a fast and comprehensive software prototyping solution, scaling from one FPGA (VP 1902) to hundreds of FPGAs. Its high performance, together with its highly flexible and modular design, helps customers dramatically accelerate firmware, operating system, application development, and system integration tasks.

For more information, visit siemens.com

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Coltala Aerospace announces growth, upgrades at Evans Composites https://www.engineering.com/coltala-aerospace-announces-growth-upgrades-at-evans-composites/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:39:17 +0000 https://www.engineering.com/?p=141388 Coltala’s integration strategy has boosted Evans’ performance, scalability, and customer experience through stronger alignment.

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Coltala Aerospace, an aerospace and defense platform, announced operational and strategic updates at Evans Composites to strengthen its capabilities in composite repair and overhaul of aircraft flight controls and structures. Over the past year, Evans Composites reported a 55% increase in revenue in June 2025 compared to June 2024 and doubled its workforce. These developments, supported by Coltala Aerospace’s integration strategy, have improved operational performance, scalability, and customer service at Evans.

Composite panel repair in progress — vacuum-assisted resin infusion ensures structural integrity and seamless restoration.

Since joining the Coltala Aerospace platform, Evans Composites has experienced:

  • Over 30% reduction in turn times: Streamlined workflows and standardized procedures have improved operational efficiency, allowing for faster delivery while maintaining quality. Customers are receiving their products on time, with quicker turnaround.
  • Strategic cross division alignment: Integration under Coltala’s unified approach has improved cross-functional collaboration and clarified strategic priorities across business units. Each division focuses on its core strengths while coordinating effectively on shared activities.
  • Data-driven decision making: The implementation of reporting tools supports teams in making timely and informed decisions across all levels.
  • Enhanced customer experience: New communication protocols and service tracking methods support more consistent and transparent customer engagement. A 5-point communication process is used to keep customers informed throughout the service.
  • Scalable infrastructure investment: Updated systems and tools support long-term growth, compliance, and operational efficiency across the organization. The addition of tablets on the shop floor and redesigned employee workspaces has increased operational capacity to support the current phase of growth in a sustainable way.

These improvements reflect Coltala Aerospace’s core commitment to Precision and Purpose—delivering mission-critical solutions that strengthen America’s aerospace and defense capabilities.

To learn more, please visit coltalaaerospace.com.

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