Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is preparing to raise prices for its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) advanced packaging service by 10 to 20%, according to a report published by Taiwan's Commercial Times on 27 October 2026. Third-party outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) suppliers are also said to be preparing similar price adjustments. CoWoS integrates AI processors and high-...
South Korea's semiconductor industry needs to strengthen its cost competitiveness and move towards higher-value products as China expands its chip manufacturing capacity, according to a new report from Samil PwC, the South Korean member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Published on 26 October 2026, the report examines how China's semiconductor industry has developed beyond individual technology in...
JST, a leading provider of wet benches, wafer cleaning and processing tools for the semiconductor industry, announced Apex, its upgraded Marangoni-type, isopropyl alcohol (IPA)-based wafer dryer. The new Apex dryer enables improved device yields by delivering reduced particle defect size and density and 10% to 15% shorter drying cycle times compared to JST’s existing IPA dryer. &n...
Nagare Labs emerged from stealth with $5M led by Playground Global and a new memory technology designed to overcome the most critical hardware bottleneck in AI innovation. Combining density and speed, Nagare’s memory technology promises to make AI compute systems more fluid, responsive, and economically scalable. A spinout of Georgia Tech, Nagare Labs was co-founded by Dr Suman Datta and Dr...
RAAAM Memory Technologies, a startup company providing an ultra-high-density, low-power on-chip memory technology, announced the appointment of Hong Hao, a former executive at Intel Foundry and Samsung Electronics, as Strategic Advisor. In this role, Mr Hao will work closely with RAAAM's executive team to support the company’s strategic growth and accelerate market engagement with customers ...
HCLTech (NSE: HCLTECH) (BSE: HCLTECH), a leading global technology company, and Rapidus Corporation, a Japanese company developing and manufacturing advanced logic semiconductors, officially inaugurated two HCLTech development centres in India dedicated to supporting Rapidus' evolving semiconductor engineering requirements. The centres, located in Bengaluru and Hubli, will leverage HCLTech's...
AlpSemi aims to transform this landscape by developing advanced power semiconductor devices specifically designed for solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs). This approach addresses a key challenge: improving the efficiency, compactness and cost competitiveness of semiconductor-based protection. Founded in 2024 by Frédéric Dupont and Fabrice Letertre, both former executives at Soitec,...
Atomera has signed a joint development agreement with IQE plc to develop gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers for radio-frequency (RF) semiconductor applications, targeting improved device performance and lower manufacturing costs in high-volume markets. The collaboration will bring together Atomera's Mears Silicon Technology (MST) and IQE's compound semiconductor epitaxy capabilities to...
Funds will support next-generation semiconductor research and development in Everett, Washington, enabling substantial power module manufacturing capability in Washington State. The project will also support research and development for domestic next-generation semiconductor tooling. Helion, a Washington-based fusion energy company, announced it has signed a letter of intent with the U.S. De...
TASKING, a leading provider of embedded software development tools, announced the first and only single-vendor unified toolchain for NXP® Semiconductors’ S32K5 microcontroller family. Developed in close collaboration with NXP, this toolchain brings compilation, debugging, and verification together in one workflow, accelerating development of next-generation zonal architectures and electr...
Rambus adopts ChipAgents agentic AI platform to accelerate its own chip and IP design and verification workflows The partnership brings together tailored Rambus silicon IP and ChipAgents’ agentic AI capabilities to speed up chip design and IP integration across customer-preferred design environments Rambus becomes a strategic investor in ChipAgents, reflecting shared commitment to advanc...
Infinity (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an automated AI research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced two key hires to its engineering team. Aditya Om, a former senior software engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), joins Infinity as Staff Inference Optimisation Engineer, and Elliot Arledge, whose CUDA and LLM coding courses h...
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, launched the RX74M and RX74N, new flagship 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) that deliver up to 600 MHz performance and are the first in the RX Family to be built on a 22nm process and incorporate embedded MRAM. Both devices deliver more than twice the performance of their 240 MHz predecessors, the RX7...
Atomera, a semiconductor transistor materials and technology licensing company, announced it has entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with IQE plc, the leading global supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions, to bring high-performance, cost-effective RF GaN to market. The collaboration leverages Atomera’s recently announced application of ...
For most of the past three years, the semiconductor industry has measured AI progress in one direction. Models have grown larger, clusters have grown denser, and accelerators have been paired with more high-bandwidth memory with each generation. That build-out has been remarkable, and it will continue. As we look toward 2027, though, the constraints shaping our industry are becoming as important a...
Photon Bridge has raised €10 million to tackle an emerging bottleneck in AI infrastructure: producing the millions of lasers that will be needed to connect increasingly large clusters of AI processors. The round was co-led by new investors the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, with existing investors Innovation Industries, Faber, and Brabant Development Agency (BOM) also increasi...
indie Semiconductor (Nasdaq: INDI), an automotive solutions innovator, announced that superluminescent light-emitting diodes (SLEDs) from its photonics portfolio have completed final space qualification testing and have been selected for use in the Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment (CHIME). The selection builds on indie Photonics' existing work in space programs, where o...
For most of the past decade, the semiconductor industry has answered AI's appetite for compute by just building more of it. More cores, more accelerators, more transistors, more advanced process nodes. It worked, and it worked remarkably well. But heading into 2027, with the continuing growth in model size, the exploding usage, the data needed, that playbook is running out of road. The reason is ...
Positron AI announced that General Compute will purchase its Atlas inference systems and has committed to purchasing its next-generation Titan systems, expanding General Compute's dedicated inference offering. The agreement expands General Compute's world-class inference offering with Atlas and establishes a path to Titan, Positron's next-generation memory-first platform designed to brin...
Infinity (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an automated AI research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced a collaboration with HP Inc. Infinity and HP have been working together to use Infinity Auto Research to optimize the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super model running on the HP ZGX Fury powered by NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Super...