• Friday | 11 September 2026
JETRO and Purdue University Partner to Strengthen Japan-US Advanced Technology Innovation

The Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) and Purdue University announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen innovation collaboration in advanced technology fields and further connect the innovation ecosystems of Japan and the United States. The MOU was signed by Norihiko Ishiguro, Chairman and CEO of JETRO, and Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., President of Purdue ...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Semtech Launches Industry-First 10G PON OLT Chipset for Next-Generation Fibre Networks

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading provider of high-performance semiconductors powering AI data centre networking and intelligent, connected Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices worldwide, announced an industry-first chipset for 10G passive optical network (PON) optical line terminal (OLT) applications. As network operators globally begin scaling to 50G PON dep...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Amkor Expands Arizona Advanced Packaging Campus with $12 Billion Investment

Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR), a leading provider of outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services, announced phase 2 of its Arizona Advanced packaging and test campus. Driven by strong customer commitments that have surpassed the 33,000 square meters of cleanroom capacity planned for phase 1, the phase 2 expansion is expected to add 60,000 square meters and bring the campus to appr...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Samsung and Mistral AI Partner to Advance Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Mistral AI to enhance its semiconductor engineering and manufacturing capabilities, which will reinforce its leadership in AI chip technologies. The announcement of the partnership was made during the state summit held in Paris between South Korea and France. Under the agreement, Samsung will integrate Mistra...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Quintessent Strengthens AI Datacentre Team with New Engineering and Business Leaders

Quintessent, an innovator in resilient and low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, announced it has hired Ramesh Senthinathan, PhD, as vice president of system engineering, and Manar Mohamed as director of business development and marketing. Senthinathan will lead development of the company’s interconnect products, which will leverage Quintessent's quantum-dot technology platf...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Axcelis Invests $35 Million in New Ion Implantation Facility in South Korea

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACLS), a leading supplier of enabling ion implantation solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced plans to invest $35 million in its global manufacturing infrastructure through the construction of a new ion implantation equipment manufacturing facility in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Korea. President and CEO Russell Low commented, "This investme...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Samsung and ASML Expand High-NA EUV Partnership for Next-Generation Chip Manufacturing

Samsung Electronics and ASML announced an expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership, deepening collaboration on High NA EUV lithography and advanced semiconductor manufacturing technologies that will help drive the next generation of innovation in the AI era. Building on years of successful cooperation, the companies will work together to accelerate the development and deployment of ...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
IonQ Unveils Superion 256 Quantum Platform Built for Scalable Manufacturing

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world's leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, announced IonQ Superion 256, its sixth-generation quantum computing platform. This system is the first in the Superion platform that all future compute products are expected to be built on. The company also plans to reveal the industrial design of IonQ Superion 256 at its 2026 Investor Day later today at the New York S...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
SkyWater Launches Quantum Solutions Business for Semiconductor Development and Manufacturing

SkyWater Technology announced the launch of SkyWater Quantum Solutions, a dedicated merchant supplier offering focused on semiconductor process development, integration, and manufacturing. This unique offering will provide semiconductor solutions for quantum-computing, networking, and sensing applications. Dr Mihir Bhaskar will lead SkyWater Quantum Solutions as senior vice president and general ...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
PsiQuantum Secures $100 Million US CHIPS Funding to Advance Quantum Computing Manufacturing

PsiQuantum announced that the company has signed definitive documentation with the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $100 million award to strengthen American leadership in quantum computing and semiconductor supply-chain security. In May 2026, the company announced that it had signed a letter of intent with the Department for $100 million in proposed federal research and development (R&...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
HyperLight Expands TFLN Photonics Ecosystem with VentureTech Alliance Investment

HyperLight Corporation ("HyperLight"), a leader in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics, announced that VentureTech Alliance ("VTA") has joined its Series C financing round. VTA is a venture investment firm focused on the semiconductor industry, with a portfolio spanning the semiconductor technology stack—including circuit design, foundry-adjacent process technology, EDA, advanced pack...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Panmnesia and Meta Propose CXL Architecture to Turn AI Datacentres into a Single Computing System

Panmnesia, a fabless semiconductor company, and Meta, a global hyperscaler, have jointly proposed a next-generation artificial intelligence datacenter architecture in which an entire datacenter operates like a single chip. The work appears as an invited Review in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering (NREE), a Nature Portfolio journal. The unit of AI execution is moving from one chip to the whole...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Quantinuum Secures $100 Million CHIPS Funding to Advance US Quantum Manufacturing

Quantinuum (Nasdaq: QNT), a leading quantum computing company, announced it has finalised an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce's CHIPS Research and Development Office for $100 million in federal funding deployed through the CHIPS and Science Act. The award, which follows a letter of intent announced in May, supports R&D and U.S. quantum semiconductor manufacturing c...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
AOS Launches 600V Super Junction MOSFETs for High-Density Power Applications

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide-bandgap power devices, power management ICs and modules, announced the release of αMOS E2™ 600V Super Junction MOSFETs: AOGT037V60DE2 and AOGT060V60DE2. AOS engineered its newly developed αMOS E2 High-Voltage M...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Realtek Advances 3nm ASIC Strategy as AI Drives Taiwan’s Semiconductor Growth

Realtek Semiconductor is expanding its presence in higher-end custom chip development, with Chairman Chiu Shun-chien revealing that the company’s ASIC projects have now reached the 3nm process node. Speaking after being inducted as an Academician of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Chiu also confirmed that Realtek is working with Nvidia and other international ...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
SEMIFIVE Begins Mass Production of 4nm AI Inference Accelerator for HyperAccel

SEMIFIVE, a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) solutions, announced that it has begun mass production of a data center AI inference accelerator for HyperAccel. This milestone marks SEMIFIVE's first large-scale mass production project utilising Samsung Foundry's 4nm advanced process node. Following the successful initial production contract with HyperAccel, mass production v...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and EdgeCortix Partner on AI-Enabled Aerospace Defence Systems

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (“Kawasaki”) and EdgeCortix Inc. (“EdgeCortix”), a leading fabless semiconductor company specialising in energy-efficient edge AI processing, announced the signing of a Teaming Agreement to advance next-generation AI-enabled aerospace and defence systems. The agreement establishes a multi-year strategic program, with an initial scope totalli...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Intel Foundry and ASML Advance High-NA EUV Lithography for Mass Production

This week at the SPIE Photomask Technology + Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography conference, Intel Foundry and ASML highlighted continued progress in bringing High Numerical Aperture (High NA) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography into production and advancing the technologies that will shape its future adoption. Specifically, Intel Foundry and ASML shared the following updates: High NA continues ...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Hanmi Semiconductor Expands 2.5D Packaging Equipment Presence in Taiwan

South Korean semiconductor equipment maker Hanmi Semiconductor has secured an important foothold in Taiwan’s advanced packaging market after its 2.5D bonding equipment passed mass-production qualification at a Taiwanese foundry. The company has subsequently begun supplying its packaging bonders to the unnamed customer, marking a significant step in Hanmi’s efforts to expand beyond its ...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Baya Systems Targets Japan’s AI and Chiplet Market with Advanced Data-Movement Technology

In this exclusive interview,  Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Nandan Nayampally, Chief Commercial Officer at Baya Systems, about the company’s expansion into Japan and the growing opportunities across the country’s semiconductor ecosystem. Nayampally shares his insights into the rising demand for AI, HPC, automotive and chiplet-based architectures, the importance of efficien...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | Interaction

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