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
IonQ to Acquire SkyWater in $1.8 Billion Deal

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum company, and SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the largest exclusively U.S.-based, pure-play semiconductor foundry, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which IonQ will acquire SkyWater for $35.00 per share in a cash-and-stock transaction, subject to a collar, implying a total equity value of approximately $1.8 b...

27 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Reed Semiconductor Wins Key Patent Case at U.S. Patent Office

Reed Semiconductor Corp., a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced a significant legal victory in a Patent Invalidation proceeding before the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). On January 22, 2026, the PTAB issued its Final Written Decision in IPR2024‑01158, ruling in favor of ...

27 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Ricursive Intelligence Raises $300M in Series A Funding

Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab founded by the co-creators of AlphaChip, announced a $300 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $4 billion post-money valuation. The round follows Ricursive's public launch less than two months earlier and includes participation from DST Global, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), Felicis Ventures, 49 Palms Ventures, ...

27 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
SEMIFIVE Partners with SAPIEN on Micro-LED Display Technology

SEMIFIVE, a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) design solutions, announced that it has signed a strategic MOU with SAPIEN Semiconductors, a company specializing in advanced micro-LED display driver ASICs. SEMIFIVE and SAPIEN Semiconductors will advance the design and technical evaluation of CMOS backplane technology, which is a core component of micro-displays. This partner...

27 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Amber Semiconductor Wins 2026 Innovation Award

Amber Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company pioneering the next generation of power management for data centers, announced that the San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Economic Development Alliance recognized AmberSemi with a 2026 innovation award. The award is particularly notable as it crosses all business categories, not just technology and comes from input and nomination by business, co...

26 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Wolfspeed Makes First 12-Inch Silicon Carbide Wafer

Wolfspeed a global leader in silicon carbide technology, announced a significant industry milestone with the successful production of a single crystal 300mm (12-inch) silicon carbide wafer. Backed by one of the industry’s largest and foundational silicon carbide IP portfolios, comprising more than 2,300 issued and pending patents worldwide, Wolfspeed is pioneering the transition to 300mm tec...

26 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS
TSMC Attracts Attention for Strong Growth and Stock Trend

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), listed on the New York Stock Exchange as TSM, has been highlighted by analysts as combining robust underlying business momentum with a favourable technical chart pattern — a combination that some investors view as attractive for growth‑oriented strategies. On the fundamentals, TSMC continues to demonstrate solid expansion in earnings and ...

26 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS