ASTRON, IBM Team to Research Origins of the Universe

ASTRON, an astronomy research organisations, has a collaborative agreement with IBM up its sleeve. The venture aims to focus on the design, engineering and manufacturing of customised, high performance analog and mixed signal processing chips. The high performance, low power usage customised chips will be used in antennas as part of ASTRON's project to build a new prototype radio telescope called SKADS/EMBRACE, which will be the precursor for the radio astronomy telescope, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope. Financial terms are not being disclosed.

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