• Thursday | 14 May 2026
Celera Semiconductor Appoints Bruno Kranzen to Board of Directors

Celera Semiconductor, the leading analog IC supplier using AI to slash the cost and time to develop and supply analog ICs, has appointed Bruno Kranzen to its Board of Directors. "Bruno has an impressive career starting in design and rising to lead ever larger businesses at companies such as National Semiconductor, Maxim Integrated and Analog Devices. His experience developing relationships with t...

28 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Chinese AI Chip Firms See Big Sales Growth After US Export Curbs

Chinese companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) chips, including Cambricon Technologies and Moore Threads, recorded sharp increases in revenue last year, partly driven by changes in US semiconductor export restrictions affecting China. Moore Threads said its revenue for the previous year is expected to reach approximately 1.52 billion yuan, representing a year-on-year rise of about 247 ...

26 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS
AI Trading Systems Deliver Triple-Digit Returns in Semiconductor Markets

Recent results from automated, AI-driven trading systems suggest strong profit potential in semiconductor markets, with some strategies producing double-digit annualised returns. Performance data from artificial intelligence trading tools indicate that several semiconductor-focused bots have delivered notable gains over the past year. These algorithms are designed to respond rapidly to market mov...

26 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS
CELUS and Atlantik Elektronik Announce Strategic Partnership

CELUS, developer of the leading AI-assisted electronics design platform used by developers and engineers globally, and Atlantik Elektronik, a leading distributor and design-in specialist for innovative electronic and semiconductor components, announced a strategic partnership aimed at streamlining and accelerating the hardware design process for engineers globally. This collaboration is a signifi...

23 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Neurophos Raises $110 Million in Series A Funding

Neurophos, a leader in photonic AI chip technology, has raised $110 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, bringing total funding to $118 million. The round was led by Gates Frontier, with participation from M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Carbon Direct Capital, Aramco Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Tectonic Ventures, Space Capital, and others. "Modern AI inference demands monumental amounts of ...

23 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
OmniOn Appoints Philip Zuk to Lead AI and Data Center Business

(OmniOn) has announced the appointment of Philip Zuk as its new Senior Vice President and General Manager of its AI and Data Center business. With more than 25 years of experience in the global power electronics and semiconductor industries, Zuk brings deep technical expertise, market insight, and a proven track record in strategic positioning and brand leadership to OmniOn’s mission of powe...

22 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Cadence Introduces HiFi iQ DSP for Voice AI and Audio

Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced the Cadence ® Tensilica ® HiFi iQ DSP IP, the sixth generation of its highly successful HiFi DSP family, based on a new architecture purpose-built for next-generation voice AI and emerging immersive audio. As these applications proliferate in the home entertainment, automotive infotainment and smartphone markets, the HiFi iQ DSP delivers the performance and...

22 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Ethernovia Secures Series B Funding to Advance AI Networking

Ethernovia, Inc., a semiconductor start-up building Ethernet-based, packet processor-centric networking solutions to support the real-time sensor, AI and control data demands of software-defined autonomy across vehicles, robots and intelligent machines, announced the close of a Series B funding round over $90 million led by Maverick Silicon with participation from Socratic Partners, Conduit Capita...

21 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
U.S. and Taiwan Announce $250 Billion Investment Agreement

The United States and Taiwan have entered into a landmark bilateral investment agreement that will see Taiwanese companies commit at least $250 billion towards expanding semiconductor, artificial intelligence, and advanced energy manufacturing capacity in the United States over the coming years. The agreement marks one of the largest cross border industrial investment commitments to date and sign...

19 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS
GIBO Expands AI Aviation Strategy with Aerial Intelligence Services

GIBO Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIBO), Asia's leading innovation-driven AI ecosystem, announced the next phase of its AI aviation roadmap, extending the GIBO.ai Calculation Engine beyond flight operations to deliver AI-powered aerial intelligence and data analytics services for commercial, industrial, and sustainability-focused markets. Building on its expansion into scalable AI-powered eVTOL platfor...

19 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Global Semiconductor Revenues to Pass $1 Trillion in 2026

Global semiconductor revenues will exceed $1tn in 2026, marking a historic milestone for the industry, according to Omdia’s latest market analysis. This growth is being driven by the rapid surge in memory and logic IC revenues, generated by massive demand from AI market. The semiconductor revenue forecast for 2025 increased significantly to 20.3% year-over-year (YoY), reflecting stronger-tha...

16 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Infinium Launches Immersion Cooling Platform for AI Data Centers

Infinium announced the launch of Infinium Edge™, an advanced data center infrastructure platform designed to enable high-density artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads through immersion cooling. As power densities of GPUs, CPUs and supporting components continue to rise, cooling has emerged as one of the primary constraints to data center performance, eff...

16 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Startup Island TAIWAN Silicon Valley Hub Marks One Year of Cross-Border Innovation

Startup Island TAIWAN Silicon Valley Hub celebrated its first anniversary in Palo Alto, bringing together startup founders, technology leaders, accelerators, and community representatives from Taiwan and the United States to reflect on a year of advancing cross-border innovation. Established by Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC) in 2025, the Silicon Valley Hub serves as a two-way bridge ...

15 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
New Photonics Introduces Industry’s First 1.6T Laser-Integrated NPO Transmitter

New Photonics® Ltd., the award-winning fabless semiconductor designer delivering innovative all-optical domain connectivity solutions for data center interconnect, introduced NPC50503 1.6T NPO laser integrated transmitter with integrated OSPic™ all-optical signal processor. The NPC50503 NPO chiplet is the industry's first laser-integrated 1.6T solution for a serviceable NPO environment a...

14 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Synopsys Joins Ignite Next to Support Europe’s Deep Tech Scale-Ups

Ignite Next, the independent scale-up program for deep tech innovation, announced that Synopsys, the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, has joined the program as a focus technology collaborator. This addition significantly strengthens the multi-partner setup launched earlier this month, which is designed to help European deep tech founders move faster from "Pre to B". Synops...

14 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
PlayNitride and Brillink Partner on Energy-Efficient Photonic Interconnects for AI and HPC

PlayNitride, a global leader in MicroLED technologies, announced a strategic collaboration with Brillink to develop a next-generation array-based photonic interconnect solution designed to deliver longer reach, lower power consumption, and superior bandwidth density for high-performance computing (HPC)and AI systems. As one of the industry's foremost MicroLED innovators, PlayNitride will contribu...

14 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Applied Brain Research Closes Oversubscribed Seed Funding Round

Applied Brain Research (ABR), the leader in low latency real-time on-device voice AI solutions, announced the successful closure of its oversubscribed seed funding round. The investment round was led by Two Small Fish Ventures (TSF), with Eva Lau joining the ABR board. The investment will fuel continued development and commercialization of ABR's breakthrough TSP1 state space accelerator chip and s...

14 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
DEEPX Named to CTA’s “What Not To Miss” Guide at CES 2026 for Second Consecutive Year

DEEPX, a global leader in ultra-low-power AI semiconductors, has once again been featured in the Consumer Technology Association's (CTA) "What Not To Miss" guide for CES 2026, marking the company's second consecutive year on this prestigious list. In the official CES 2026 guide, DEEPX is highlighted alongside industry titans such as AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Samsung Electronics as being recognize...

12 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS
SonicEdge Partners with Global Semiconductor Manufacturer to Integrate Modulated Ultrasound into Audio Chipsets

SonicEdge, a pioneer in micro-acoustic innovation, announced at CES 2026 a new strategic partnership with a leading global semiconductor manufacturer to integrate its modulated ultrasound IP directly into next-generation audio chipsets. The audio chipset will natively drive SonicEdge’s modulated ultrasound speakers. Additional major chip companies are expected to follow as the industry recog...

9 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
QuantalRF Expands RF Semiconductor and Antenna Ecosystem with DockOn® Models in Ansys HFSS

QuantalRF, the pioneering developer of RF semiconductor and antenna solutions, announced that its DockOn® antennas are now available in Ansys HFSS™ high-frequency electromagnetic software component libraries — now part of the Synopsys line of simulation and analysis solutions. This inclusion in HFSS gives RF engineers access to QuantalRF's antenna models, enabling faster and more p...

8 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS

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