QBayLogic joins the Phoenix/San Francisco economic mission
QBayLogic has taken part in the economic mission to Phoenix (Arizona) and San Francisco (California), organized by RVO / Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. Together with 50 other semiconductor firms and knowledge institutes from the Netherlands and Flanders. The week was packed with visits to technology leaders such as Google, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA – spearheaded by Prime Minister Mark Rutte (The Netherlands) and Minister President Jan Jambon (Flanders).
Micky Adriaansens, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands, speaking at ASM – a large Dutch company that specializes in the design, manufacturing, sales and service of semiconductor wafer processing equipment.
The Netherlands has long been punching above their weight with multi-billion tech companies such as ASML and ASM. As NRC duly noticed, the Netherlands therefore plays a key role in the global semiconductor industries, and this mission meant to further enshrine this position, and to ensure continued cooperation with one of the largest markets in the world – the USA. QBayLogic is proud to walk amongst these giants. Like them, QBayLogic pushes against the boundaries of the semiconductor industry with our state of the art hardware development language and tooling.
For QBayLogic itself this mission was undoubtedly a success. We got the chance to talk about our work shaking up the way we program our data centers dubbed Bittide. Work we’re doing with our colleagues Martin Izzard (Google) and professor Sanjay Lall (Stanford / Visiting researcher at Google). It was a great pleasure to finally meet them in person after years of working together over Google Meet. Also great thanks to prime minister Mark Rutte for making the time to hear us out, even though his schedule was packed to the brim.
Thursday morning the delegation visited Google, where Martin Izzard presented project Bittide – a novel way of designing data centers – for which QBayLogic provides R&D services w.r.t. the hardware implementation.
Besides our talking to the American parties, it was great to talk to so many of our Dutch and Flemish contacts. Though I am sure I am forgetting some of you, I would like to mention a bunch of you in particular: Paul Van Ulsen (Salland Engineering (Europe) B.V.), Marieke Stokkelaar (ChipTech Twente), Bas Klaver (Demcon), Marloes de Goeijen (OostNL), Edith Bevers (Microsoft), Luc Martens (Ghent University), Sven Pekelder (Settels Savenije Group of Companies), and Richard Visee (SystematIC Design B.V.). Thanks for making this trip one not easy to forget! Also, Guus Rijnders, shoot me a message if you want to see the Bittide demo hardware you saw in the presentation in the flesh!
Finally, I will leave you with one of my favorite pictures from the trip to the US: winding down from the busy week at a real American diner.
Martijn at Sandy’s Cafe
