Combines two of the fastest-growing enablers of AI, bringing together complementary electrical and optical technologies to address increasingly complex connectivity requirements across next-generation AI infrastructure Expected to create a broad full-stack connectivity portfolio that is intended to enable end-to-end extreme co-design, high-volume production of fully-optimized, pre-validated opt...
Japan-based TANAKA Precious Metal Technologies has announced plans to establish a precious metal refining joint venture with Malaysian resource recovery company MEP Enviro Technology Sdn. Bhd., expanding local recycling and materials processing capabilities for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The new company, TANAKA MEP REFINERY SDN. BHD., will operate from Batu Kawan Industrial Par...
Taiwan's semiconductor industry has renewed its support for examining the restart of nuclear power plants, as growing demand for advanced chips raises concerns about the island's long-term electricity supply. The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) confirmed its position at its annual meeting in Hsinchu on 29 October 2026, where its board agreed to back the government's review of nuc...
Taiwan King Lung Chin PTC Co., Ltd. (KLC Corporation), a Taiwan-based thermal management solutions manufacturer, highlighted its Thermal Test Vehicle (TTV) solutions for chip-wafer layout design, planning & verification, AI, and high-performance computing (HPC), alongside high-voltage coolant heaters for electric vehicles (EVs). As AI infrastructure and high-performance computing systems driv...
Nordic Semiconductor (OSE: NOD), a global leader in low-power wireless connectivity solutions, proves the upcoming Bluetooth® High Data Throughput (HDT) feature in silicon through its video demonstration. Nordic, who has an established reputation as a leader in Bluetooth technology, is one of the first vendors to showcase support for Bluetooth HDT. With support for longer packe...
Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon and software IP that powers the Smart Edge, unveiled its next-generation NeuPro™ NPU portfolio, featuring expanded capabilities and delivering up to 2X higher AI throughput per mm² and a 50% improvement in energy efficiency versus the first generation. Built on a common architecture and unified software stack, the new portfolio...
As data center power levels scale from hundreds of kilowatts to multi-megawatt AI clusters, protecting the systems against electrical faults while maintaining uninterrupted operation has become a strategic priority for data center operators. This raises the requirements against electrical fault protection and for predictive maintenance. Against this background, current sensing is evolving from a m...
Shares in major automotive semiconductor suppliers came under pressure on 28 October 2026, after NXP Semiconductors issued a fourth-quarter revenue outlook slightly below market expectations, prompting investors to reassess demand prospects across the automotive chip sector. ON Semiconductor (onsemi) recorded the largest decline among the companies tracked in the report, falling approximately 5% ...
Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon and software IP that powers the Smart Edge, unveiled its next-generation NeuPro™ NPU portfolio, featuring expanded capabilities and delivering up to 2X higher AI throughput per mm² and a 50% improvement in energy efficiency versus the first generation. Built on a common architecture and unified software stack, the new portfolio...
FuriosaAI, an AI semiconductor company building sustainable, high-performance inference compute for data centers, announced the completion of its $620 million (KRW 820 billion) Series D round, bringing its post-money valuation to approximately $2.9 billion. The financing marks a major milestone as FuriosaAI scales global commercial deployments of its RNGD AI inference accelerator. FuriosaAI will ...
For three decades, white LEDs have depended on rare earth materials such as yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) layered onto a blue LED chip (Figure 1). Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 092190) announced that it has broken that dependence. It has developed and begun mass producing a chip that emits white light without rare earths. The chip can be as small as 10 micrometers (µm). Seoul Viosys and i...
AXT, Inc. (NasdaqGS: AXTI), a leading manufacturer of compound semiconductor substrates announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Beijing Tongmei Xtal Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tongmei”), has entered into definitive agreements for a private equity financing to fund further expansion of its manufacturing capacity for indium phosphide semiconductor substrates, expansion of its principal...
As the semiconductor industry begins the 2nm manufacturing ramp and accelerates R&D toward the sub-2nm node, high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is emerging as a critical enabler of continued device scaling. By improving resolution and enhancing pattern fidelity, high NA EUV lithography is expected to play a central role in future semiconductor manufacturing. Her...
ChipAgents is expanding its agentic AI platform across digital and analog chip design, bringing traditionally fragmented workflows onto a common AI-native foundation. The platform is powered by IC-star, the chip neural engine that combines persistent design knowledge, advanced reasoning and orchestration, dynamic model routing and physics-aware models. ChipAgents’ full-stack approach bui...
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony) announced the upcoming release of the LYTIA 720, an approximately 50-effective megapixel*1 image sensor for mobile applications that delivers industry-leading*2 low-light performance and supports 4K 60 fps HDR video recording. Designed for use on the main camera of mobile devices, the new sensor inherits technologies developed for Sony's LYTIA high-...
ChipNexus™, a developer of agentic AI software for semiconductor and hardware design, announced the availability of the NEX™ Analog Agent, which brings analog design capabilities to NEX™, its multi-agent engineering platform. The Analog Agent works directly with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre simulation and Siemens Calibre physical verification, using the EDA licenses and process desi...
Movandi, the semiconductor and systems innovator powering next-generation wireless communications, announced its new 60GHz connectivity platform, powered by the MV6055 60GHz transceiver, to address the growing bandwidth and latency requirements across multiple markets including physical AI, fixed wireless access (FWA), integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), and network backhaul. The platfor...
SambaNova and Oracle are collaborating to deploy SambaRack SN50 inference chips in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers. Oracle will offer the capacity to AI model builders. The plan adds high-performance inference chips to OCI’s growing range of AI infrastructure, giving customers more choice in how they run inference at scale. SambaNova, the AI chip company delivering ...
Infineon Technologies has announced an investment of around €1.1 billion at its Villach site in Austria to establish what it describes as the world's first high-volume manufacturing facility for gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors on 300mm wafers. High-volume production is scheduled to begin at the end of 2027, with investment continuing through 2034. The expansion will upgrade infras...
SK hynix will announce its third-quarter 2026 results on 28 October, with Samsung Electronics set to follow on 29 October. Market consensus compiled by FnGuide projects SK hynix's third-quarter consolidated revenue at KRW 98.23 trillion and operating profit at KRW 76.96 trillion, increases of 301.76% and 576.11% year on year respectively. South Korean media expect the company's operating margin t...