• Sunday | 08 February 2026
Silicon Single-Photon Detector Reaches Over 84% Efficiency

Silicon single-photon detectors (Si SPDs) play a central role in quantum photonics and single-photon imaging for detecting single photons in the visible spectrum. Many of these applications demand high photon detection efficiency (PDE) for effectively collecting photons. While Si SPD have compact size and are easy to operate, boosting their efficiency above 80% has been a challenge. To address th...

16 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Penguin Solutions’ SMART CXL Memory Module Passes Industry Compliance Testing

Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENG) a leading provider of high-performance computing and AI infrastructure solutions,  announced that its SMART Modular CXL NV-CMM E3.S 2T non-volatile memory module has successfully passed CXL® compliance testing. This achievement not only signifies adherence to industry standards, but positions Penguin Solutions as a trusted leader in advanced memory t...

16 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Ionic Mineral Technologies Appoints Shane Porzio as Chief Operating Officer

Ionic Mineral Technologies ("Ionic MT"), a pioneer in developing one of the world’s most comprehensive hubs for rare earths and critical minerals, announced the appointment of Shane Porzio as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Mr. Porzio will lead the Company's operational scale-up from pilot to full commercial production of its nano-silicon, high-purity alumina, and rare earth elements deri...

16 Jan 2026 | Friday | 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
Sivers Semiconductors Wins $800K U.S. Defense Contract

Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, today announced it has won an $800K development contract from a leading U.S. defense contractor. Under the agreement, Sivers Semiconductors will apply its industry-leading mmWave beamformers, to support emerging U.S. tactical communications programs. This collaboration represents a strategically signific...

16 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Diodes Introduces New USB-C Power Delivery Controllers for Portable Devices

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) introduces the AP53781 and AP53782 28V USB Type-C® Power Delivery (PD) dual-role power (DRP) controllers designed for managing DC power requests and outputs in battery-powered portable devices. The controllers support the latest USB PD3.1 extended power range (EPR) standard, delivering up to 140W for charging as well as releasing power from the internal batte...

15 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Quick Logic Receives First Orders for Radiation-Hardened FPGA Development Kit

Quick Logic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Hard IP, Strategic Radiation Hardened, Antifuse and ruggedized FPGAs, announced that it has received orders for its Strategic Radiation Hardened FPGA Development Kit (SRH FPGA Dev Kit). These SRH FPGA Dev Kits include the SRH FPGA test chips, funded last year by QuickLogic, that have been fabricated on Global Foundries' i...

15 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Beacon Global Strategies Launches New Export Control Practice

Beacon Global Strategies (BGS), a leading strategic advisory firm specializing in global public policy, defense, and national security, announced the launch of its new Export Control and Industrial Strategy Practice. The firm also announced that Meghan Harris has been promoted to Managing Director to lead the newly established practice, and that Kevin Kurland, former Principal Deputy Assistant Sec...

15 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Origin AI and NXP Partner to Bring Smart Motion Sensing to Homes

Origin℠ AI, the inventors of AI Sensing℠, announced a strategic collaboration with NXP® Semiconductors, the trusted supplier for innovative solutions in industrial and IoT markets, to embed Origin's award-winning WiFi Sensing software directly into NXP's i.MX 9 applications processors and wireless tri-radio chipsets. This endeavor fast-tracks the deployment of intelligent motion sensing in...

15 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Siemens Acquires ASTER Technologies to Strengthen PCB Design and Testing

Siemens announced it has acquired ASTER Technologies ("ASTER"), a privately held market leader in printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) test verification and engineering software. This strategic move integrates ASTER's advanced "shift-left" design for test (DFT) functionality directly into Siemens' Xpedition™ software and Valor™ software – part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio...

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
ESD Industry Revenue Grows 8.8% in Q3 2025, Reports ESD Alliance

Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 8.8% to $5,566.4 million in the third quarter of 2025 from the $5,114.5 million registered in the third quarter of 2024, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, announced in its latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. The four-quarter moving average rose 10.4%, based on a comparison of the most recent four quarters to the...

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
Quantum Computing Inc. Named Stalking Horse Bidder for Luminar Assets

Quantum Computing Inc. an innovative quantum optics and integrated photonics technology company, announced that, following its previously announced agreement to acquire Luminar Semiconductor, Inc. ("LSI"), it has submitted a bid and has been selected as the stalking horse bidder for selected remaining assets of Luminar Technologies, Inc. ("Luminar"). This proposed transaction will be completed in ...

14 Jan 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Bruker Signs $500 Million Superconductor Supply Agreements for MRI Systems

The Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) division, a segment of Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR),  announced two multi-year supply agreements for Bruker’s latest superconductors, which are used by global radiology companies to build their next generations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnets. The combined order value of the two agreements is approximately $500 milli...

13 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Quectel Launches New Smart Robotic Computing Module

Quectel Wireless Solutions, an end-to-end global IoT solutions provider, announces the launch of a new-generation smart robotic computing module, the SH602HA-AP. Based on the D-Robotics Sunrise 5 (X5M) chip platform and with an integrated Ubuntu operating system, the module features up to 10 TOPs of brain processing units (BPU) computing power. Designed for demanding robotic workloads, this high-...

13 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Bruker Acquires Full Ownership of TOFWERK

Bruker Corporation announced the acquisition of an additional 60% ownership stake in TOFWERK AG, a Switzerland-based innovator in ultra-fast time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry technology for small molecule applied markets, consolidating Bruker’s ownership to 100%. The transaction adds ultra-fast TOF-MS technology for small-molecule markets, including atmospheric chemistry research, air q...

13 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS

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