India Commits USD 4.8 Billion In Union Budget 2026 To Emerge As A Global Semiconductor Contender

  India’s Union Budget 2026 marks a clear inflection point in the country’s semiconductor ambition. What emerges is not a tactical incentive programme but a calibrated national strategy designed to reposition India from a peripheral electronics base to a credible node in the global semiconductor value chain. For global semiconductor and electronics multinationals,...

2 Feb 2026 | Monday | NEWS
ISG Launches Study on Semiconductor Services and Solutions

Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a global AI-centred technology research and advisory firm, has launched a research study examining providers that help semiconductor companies adopt advanced technologies, supported by digital manufacturing and intelligent automation. The study results will be published in a series of comprehensive ISG Provider Lens® reports, called Se...

30 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
GCT Licenses 5G and 4G Chipsets to Global Satellite Provider

GCT Semiconductor Holding Inc. (“GCT” or the "Company") (NYSE: GCTS), a leading designer and supplier of advanced 5G and 4G semiconductor solutions, announced that it has licensed its 5G and 4G chipsets to one of the world’s largest satellite communications providers. The agreement enables the integration of GCT’s 5G and 4G chipsets into the satellite provider’s user ...

30 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Arasan Launches xSPI + eMMC Combo PHY IP

Arasan Chip Systems, a leading provider of semiconductor IP for mobile and automobile SoCs, announced the immediate availability of its xSPI + eMMC Combo PHY IP. This IP integrates both the xSPI and eMMC 5.1 PHYs into a single, unified solution, enabling support for two distinct memory protocols within a single IP. The xSPI + eMMC Combo PHY IP is targeted at mission-critical applications in t...

30 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Nova Metrion® Adopted for Advanced Logic and Memory Production

Nova (Nasdaq: NVMI), a leading innovator in metrology and process control solutions for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, announced the adoption of its Nova Metrion® platform by global leaders in Memory and Logic device production. The platform was purchased for Gate-All-Around (GAA) and advanced DRAM device production, enabling customers to accelerate performance and yield....

30 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
FPT Establishes Vietnam’s First Locally Owned Semiconductor Testing and Packaging Plant

Hanoi, FPT Corporation officially announced the establishment of the FPT Advanced Semiconductor Testing and Packaging Plant, aiming to strengthen connectivity across the semiconductor value chain and to realize Vietnam's major national orientations on mastering core and sovereign technologies, in line with Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, Decision No. 1131/QĐ-TTg and Decision No. 1018/QĐ-TTg, there...

30 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SWEP Launches All-Stainless B4TS Heat Exchanger

 SWEP, part of Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a world-leading supplier of brazed plate heat exchangers (BPHEs), announced the launch of its SWEP All-Stainless B4TS product designed for the electronics and semiconductor industries. The SWEP B4TS is frameless and compact and designed for use with R744 (refrigerant grade CO2) built for handling high-pressured applications. This innovation...

30 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Atomera Advances GaN-on-Silicon Technology

Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ:ATOM), a semiconductor materials and technology licensing company, announced that its concept paper on Gallium Nitride on Silicon (GaN-on-Si) technologies has been accepted to move to the proposal stage as part of a PowerAmerica Institute Initiated Proposal (IIP) to advance wide-bandgap (WBG) power semiconductor technology. The paper, which proposes a co...

29 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
nLIGHT Expands Manufacturing Space in Colorado

nLIGHT, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASR), a leading provider of high-power lasers for mission-critical directed energy, optical sensing, and advanced manufacturing applications, announced it has added 50,000 square feet of leased manufacturing and office space to expand its existing facilities in Longmont, Colorado. The additional space will more than double the Company’s current capacity and enable the...

29 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Kyocera and Maxell Begin Testing All-Solid-State Batteries

Kyocera Corporation (TOKYO: 6971) and Maxell, Ltd. (TOKYO: 6810) began test operations in December 2025, installing power modules that use Maxell’s all‑solid‑state battery “PSB401010H” into industrial robots and controllers at Kyocera’s Kagoshima Sendai Plant, one of its semiconductor ceramic package production sites. The ceramic‑packaged all...

29 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Littelfuse Reports Strong Fourth Quarter Results

Littelfuse, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFUS), a leader in developing smart solutions that enable safe and efficient electrical energy transfer, reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 27, 2025: “I am proud of our teams as we finished the year with significant momentum, delivering fourth quarter results above our guidance range and successfully closing the acquisition of Bas...

29 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Ultra Clean Holdings Names New Chief Operating Officer

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: UCTT) announced that Harjinder Bajwa has departed the company effective January 25, 2026, and that Robert Wunar has been appointed Chief Operating Officer effective March 2026. Mr. Wunar brings more than 30 years of deep operations and supply chain leadership within the semiconductor capital equipment industry. Most recently, he served as the COO/Mana...

29 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
SK KeyFoundry Launches 200V BCD Process

SK KeyFoundry, an 8-inch pure-play foundry in Korea, announced that it has recently launched its fourth-generation 200V high-voltage 0.18-micron BCD (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) process and will begin full-scale product development with major domestic and global customers, targeting mass production within the year. As vehicle electrification and the expansion of AI data centres continue to accelerate, mar...

29 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Lightmatter and Synopsys Collaborate on 3D Co-Packaged Optics Platform

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic (super) computing, announced a strategic collaboration with Synopsys, the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, to integrate Synopsys 224G SerDes and UCIe IP for 3nm process into Lightmatter’s Passage™ 3D Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) platform. Through this collaboration, Lightmatter is developing a robust, low-laten...

28 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
AOS Launches αMOS E2™ 600V Super Junction MOSFET Platform

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide band gap power devices, power management ICs, and modules, unveiled its powerful αMOS E2™ 600V Super Junction MOSFET platform. The first high-voltage product from the newly developed platform is AOS’ AOTL037V60DE2. 600V ...

28 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
La Luce Cristallina Launches CMOS-Compatible Oxide Pseudo-Substrate

  La Luce Cristallina announced it has launched its new CMOS-compatible oxide pseudo-substrate, enabling high-quality, epitaxial strontium titanate (SrTiO₃) films to be grown directly on 200-mm silicon and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. This platform bridges the gap between academic oxide research and commercial manufacturing, facilitating the development of advance...

28 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Quest Global Appoints Rick Bergman as President & Global Business Head of Semiconductor

Quest Global, the world's largest independent pure-play engineering services company, today announced the appointment of Richard (Rick) Bergman as President & Global Business Head of its Semiconductor vertical. As the Global Business Head, Rick will focus on shaping the division's long-term strategy, accelerating revenue growth, and deepening relationships with global customers. His responsib...

28 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
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
Semiconductor Test Consumables Makers Strengthen Market Strategies

Companies operating in the semiconductor test consumables sector are strengthening their market strategies as demand for advanced testing solutions continues to rise. Products such as probe cards, test sockets and related components play a critical role in ensuring semiconductor performance and reliability, prompting manufacturers to invest in innovation and capacity expansion. Industry leaders a...

27 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Micron Advances Semiconductor Manufacturing Plans in India

Micron Technology is accelerating the execution of its India manufacturing strategy as it advances its long-term production roadmap in the country. The company’s assembly and test facility in Sanand, Gujarat, is progressing steadily toward full operations, marking a major milestone in Micron’s global manufacturing expansion. Developed with support from India’s semiconductor ince...

27 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS