Jumbo Group is marking its 50th anniversary with an exciting, limited-time sale featuring exclusive discounts, special offers, and a variety of valuable prizes.

Celebrating “50 Years of Trust That Transforms,” Jumbo’s journey reflects five decades of reliability, innovation, and customer trust in the UAE. The special sale will highlight the Jumbo legacy of only offering the best and most popular products and services to its customers.

Running from November 15 to 24, this anniversary celebration features a guaranteed gifts promotion, ensuring that every customer has a chance to win big. With high-value prizes, exclusive benefits for cardholders, and significant discounts on the latest gadgets, the sale is set to be one of the most anticipated shopping events of the season.

As a thank-you to loyal customers and tech enthusiasts, Jumbo has lined up a stellar range of prizes, including the most sought-after tech products such as 85” Samsung TVs, Apple iPhone 16 models, MacBook Air laptops, Lenovo gaming laptops, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, Sony noise-cancelling earbuds, and Huawei smartwatches. Shopping discount vouchers valued at AED 100, AED 200, and AED 300 are also up for grabs, providing extra savings across an extensive range of products. These can be redeemed on purchases of AED 1,000 or more, AED 2,000 or more, and AED 3,000 or more, respectively, ensuring significant savings across a wide range of products. Shoppers will also enjoy exclusive discounts, including 10% off purchases with Sharjah Islamic Bank, HSBC, Emirates Islamic Bank cards, as well as additional savings for Esaad and Fazaa cardholders. Terms and conditions apply on the offers and discounts.

Members of Majid Al Futtaim’s SHARE programme will receive five times the points on all purchases, adding another layer of value for customers during this sale period.

Mr. Vikas Chadha, CEO of Jumbo Electronics Ltd., shared his excitement about the milestone celebration, saying, “Our 50th anniversary is a tribute to our customers who have supported us through the years and been at the heart of our journey. We’ve crafted this sale with unbeatable offers and prizes to celebrate their loyalty and make this milestone truly memorable. From the latest tech to exclusive deals, we’re excited to continue bringing the best to our community and look forward to many more years of excellence.

“To ensure everyone can join the celebration, our anniversary offers will be available both online and across all 17 Jumbo stores in the UAE. Jumbo invites all customers to be a part of the festivities, with celebratory activities at the Mall of the Emirates from November 22 to 24 that visitors can participate in and share their love and stories of loyalty with Jumbo.”

Customers can shop these incredible anniversary offers across all Jumbo Stores in the UAE and at jumbo.ae. The celebration will also feature roadshows in key malls for loyal customers, where Jumbo will reward them, making this milestone truly unforgettable. Don’t miss out on this extraordinary chance to win fantastic prizes and enjoy exclusive discounts as Jumbo marks a historic 50 years of excellence! Don’t miss out on this historic celebration of 50 years of excellence!

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (Toshiba) recently announces a new video that showcases its successful partnership with PROMISE Technology to deliver enhanced data storage capabilities to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, home to the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The video explores how the collaborative partnership has been instrumental in fulfilling CERN’s mission by delivering robust storage systems and cutting-edge hard drives to support its groundbreaking research.

The LHC’s collision detectors, which run 24/7, generate approximately 1TB of data per minute, necessitating robust and reliable data storage. Since 2008, CERN has used PROMISE Technology’s 24-bay JBOD VTrak J5800 HDD enclosures, with some of the earliest systems still operational today. CERN has also used Toshiba’s Enterprise Capacity HDDs, starting with capacities of 4TB over ten years ago to the MG09 Series Enterprise Capacity 18TB HDDs.

During this time, the two companies supported CERN in scaling up the storage capacity at its central data center, which sends this data to more than 170 research institutes around the world for analysis. Today, this storage system has reached a capacity of more than one Exabyte, which is one thousand Petabytes or a million Terabytes, realized with more than 120,000 HDDs sitting in more than 4,000 JBOD enclosures.

Building on this success, PROMISE Technology developed a new 60-bay JBOD model, the VTrak J5960. The JBOD storage system incorporates ‘Greenboost’ technology, a suite of energy-saving innovations that can reduce power consumption by up to 30%. In the HDD application lab, Toshiba completed early testing PROMISE Technology’s 60-bay JBOD with its Enterprise Capacity MG10 Series 20TB HDDs, and confirmed data- and cooling performance and power efficiency, which aligns with the global push towards more sustainable and environmentally friendly data management practices.

About this collaboration achievement in data storage Eric Bonfillou, Debuty Group Leader of CERN’s IT Fabric group states: “In our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, we need partners who understand the importance of data storage, reliability, and efficiency with solutions that are tailored to our unique needs.”

“The energy crisis is now a real challenge to all enterprises, including CERN,” Alice Chang, Chief Marketing Officer, PROMISE Technology. “The VTrak J5960 offers a well-rounded solution to solve this dilemma, and we are confident that Toshiba’s Enterprise Capacity HDDs, installed and operated in this JBOD, will support CERN’s future need for growing data storage capacity in a reliable and energy-efficient way.”

“At Toshiba, we are very proud to support CERN’s activities with Enterprise Capacity HDDs,” says Rainer W. Kaese, Senior Manager Business Development, Storage Products Division at Toshiba. “We continue to develop higher capacities, up to 30TB and beyond, as HDDs are and will remain essential for storing the exabytes of data that CERN and the entire world produce in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner.”

While the video celebrates the collaborative work with CERN, the focus remains on the technological advancements and the future of data storage at the research facility. Toshiba and PROMISE Technology are committed to providing solutions that ensure the LHC’s research continues without interruption, contributing to our understanding of the universe.

The FPA-3030i6 employs a newly developed projection lens that boasts high transmittance and high-durability. The system reduces lens aberration for high exposure dose processes and improves productivity by shortening exposure time.

The lens is made of high-transmittance glass material that reduces lens aberrations occurring during exposure by more than 50% when compared to previous stepper models. Higher transmittance also helps reduce exposure time while maintaining pattern fidelity, even under high exposure dose conditions.

Improving lens transmittance will also increase exposure intensity and shorten the exposure time required for each process. The FPA-3030i6 standard productivity for 8 inch (200 mm) wafers has increased to 130 wafers per hour from 123 for the previous stepper models.

Additionally, since the lens is highly durable, lens transmittance decrease over time is reduced and productivity can be maintained over the life of the system.

The NA (numerical aperture) range has also been expanded from 0.45~0.63 in the previous model to 0.30~0.63. Allowing for a smaller NA enables customers to select the optimum NA for each device layer.

Optional products including a wafer handling system for special substrates are available for order to meet users’ manufacturing needs for various emerging semiconductor devices including high-power and high-efficiency green devices.

The FPA-3030i6 is designed to support a wider range of device fabrication thanks to a variety of available process options for silicon (Si) as well as sapphire and compound semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates.

Canon will offer wafer feeding options enabling handling of substrates from 2 inches (50 mm) to 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter, as well as thick, thin and warped substrate handling.