• Thursday | 24 September 2026
Cognex Launches In-Sight 1750 for AI-Driven Wafer Traceability and Semiconductor Production

Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX), the global technology leader in industrial machine vision, announced the launch of the In-Sight® 1750 Series, a next-generation wafer and panel identification system designed to help semiconductor manufacturers reduce disruptions, improve traceability, and maintain throughput. As semiconductor manufacturers expand capacity to support AI infrastructure, advan...

24 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
IonQ and SDT Strengthen South Korea Quantum Ecosystem with Superion 256 Partnership

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, announced a strategic partnership with Korea-based quantum technology and software company SDT, Inc. Under this multi-year collaboration, IonQ will supply SDT with a Superion 256 quantum computer as well as IonQ’s silicon-vacancy (SiV) quantum memory module. "Demand for our new Superion 256 system is growi...

24 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
ChipAgents and eMemory Accelerate Semiconductor IP Verification with Agentic AI

ChipAgents, the category leader in agentic AI platforms for semiconductor design, announced that eMemory, a leading pure-play developer and provider of logic-based non-volatile memory (Logic NVM), founded in 2000, has deployed ChipAgents to automate critical portions of its functional-model verification workflow for NVM IP. Using ChipAgents, eMemory reduced the engineering effort for datasheet an...

24 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Ezurio Launches BL54LM20 Series with Edge AI for Scalable IoT Connectivity

Ezurio, a global leader in connectivity and embedded compute technology, announces the BL54LM20 Series: the BL54LM20A, BL54LM20B, and BL54LM20B USB-C Adapter. Built on Nordic Semiconductor's new nRF54LM20A and nRF54LM20B SoCs, the BL54LM20 Series brings USB, more memory, more I/O, and, for the first time in the BL54L family, module-level Edge AI capability to market. Pairing a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-...

24 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
GSME and Teradyne Partner to Accelerate Semiconductor Test and Production Readiness

GS Microelectronics U.S., Inc. (GSME), a fast-growing semiconductor solutions provider, and Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ: TER), a leading provider of automated test equipment and advanced robotics, announced a multi‑year strategic partnership to establish a state‑of‑the‑art semiconductor test and evaluation center designed to accelerate customer time‑to‑market. The collaboration integra...

24 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
TransPak Expands Southeast Asia Presence with New Thailand Facility

TransPak, a global provider of crating, packaging and logistics solutions, announced the opening of its new facility in Chonburi, Thailand, expanding the company's capabilities across Southeast Asia. Located in the Namyong Terminal Free Zone in the Bueng Subdistrict of Si Racha District, the 2,318-square-meter (approximately 24,950-square-foot) facility offers packaging, final assembly, pack-on-s...

24 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Valens Semiconductor and onsemi Collaborate on Cost-Optimised 3MP Automotive Camera Solution

Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a leading provider of high-performance connectivity chipsets, announced a collaboration with onsemi on a cost-optimised integrated sensor for high-volume 3-megapixel automotive camera applications. Through this collaboration, the parties intend to give OEMs and Tier 1s a faster path to A-PHY. Under the agreement, Valens will work with onsemi on the cost-optimised...

23 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
STARTRADER Launches 24/7 CFDs Referencing CXMT and Unitree Robotics

STARTRADER announced the launch of two new 24/7 CFD instruments: CXMTUSD (CXMT Corporation) and UNITREEUSD (Unitree Robotics), available Monday through Sunday, 00:00–24:00 (GMT+3 platform time), subject to scheduled maintenance windows. Both instruments are USD-denominated CFDs referencing Shanghai-listed companies. The AI story has focused largely on software, while the hardware behind it ...

23 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
EFC Gases Breaks Ground on Advanced Materials Facility in Texas

EFC Gases & Advanced Materials ("EFC"), a leading global supplier of speciality gases and advanced materials, celebrated the groundbreaking of its new advanced manufacturing facility in McGregor, Texas, on September 15, 2026. The project represents a significant investment in expanding domestic production of high-purity materials critical to semiconductor manufacturing and strengthening the U....

23 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Navitas Invests $5 Million in Magnachip to Expand SiC Power Semiconductor Collaboration

Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: MX) (“Magnachip” or the “Company”), a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal power semiconductor platform solutions, announced that Navitas Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: NVTS) (“Navitas”) has agreed to make a $5 million strategic equity investment in Magnachip. Under the terms of a privately negotiat...

23 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
BrainChip Launches AKD1500 PCIe Card for Low-Power Neuromorphic Edge AI

BrainChip Holdings Ltd has launched the AKD1500 PCIe development card, giving engineering teams a new way to evaluate ultra-low-power, event-based neuromorphic AI across standard computing platforms. The new PCIe card is built around BrainChip's AKD1500 Edge AI co-processor and can be installed into a standard PCIe slot in a desktop, workstation, industrial PC or single-board computer. The compan...

23 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
MegaChips and proteanTecs Advance Embedded Silicon Monitoring for AI and High-Performance ASICs

Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Noritaka Kojima, General Manager, proteanTecs Japan, about the collaboration between MegaChips and proteanTecs and how embedded silicon monitoring and analytics can help customers improve power, performance, yield and reliability across the lifecycle of advanced ASIC and LSI platforms.   Q. What was the key business opportunity behind bringing protea...

23 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | Interaction
OpenLight Strengthens Leadership Team to Scale Silicon Photonics and AI Connectivity

OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous silicon photonics integration and custom photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) design, announced two significant additions to its executive leadership team: Kevin Soukup as Chief Operating Officer and Kirk Ouellette as Chief Strategy Officer and Interim Chief Revenue Officer. Soukup joins OpenLight after leading the Silicon Photonics busines...

22 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Teradyne Launches Iris 100 for High-Volume MicroLED Optical Testing

Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ: TER), a leading provider of automated test equipment and advanced robotics, announced Iris 100, a production-ready optical test platform for microLED devices. Teradyne Iris 100 brings semiconductor-grade optical test to microLED manufacturing, measuring every individual emitter in an array and integrating directly with the Teradyne UltraFLEXplus platform for combined optica...

22 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Semtech Joins XPO MSA to Advance 200G/Lane Optical Interconnects for AI Datacentres

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 its membership in the eXtra-dense Pluggable Optics Multi-Source Agreement (XPO MSA), an industry initiative to enable high-bandwidth optical interconnects for AI network infr...

22 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Universal Vapor Jet Unveils NovaJet for Dry, Maskless Semiconductor Thin-Film Deposition

Universal Vapor Jet Corporation (UVJC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (Nasdaq: OLED), is set to unveil NovaJet, the first commercial system built on its proprietary Universal Vapour Jet Printing (UVJP) platform, at the WESEMiBAY Semiconductor Ecosystem Conference and Expo in Shenzhen, China. The launch marks UVJC’s first trade show appearance and introduce...

22 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
MetaOptics Secures US$10 Million Facility to Scale Metalens Manufacturing in the US

MetaOptics Ltd (Catalist: 9MT) ("MetaOptics" or the "Company", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group"), a leading-edge semiconductor optics company pioneering metalens technology, announced that it has secured an investment facility of up to US$10 million from White Lion Capital LLC ("White Lion"), pursuant to a warrant deed entered into with White Lion, under which the Company may, ...

22 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Semtech Advances 50G Optical Fronthaul for AI-Driven 5G-Advanced 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 full production availability of its mobile transport portfolio, enabling 50G fronthaul for the next wave of 5G-Advanced radio deployments. The announcement aligns with the industry...

22 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Kyocera and Tohoku University Advance Optical Isolators for Silicon Photonics and CPO

Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Tomoya Sugita, Manager, Optical Research Section, Advanced Technology Research Institute, Kyocera Corporation, about Kyocera’s laser-annealing technology for monolithically integrated optical isolators and its potential to advance silicon photonics, CPO, and AI data centre interconnects. Q. What industry and market requirements are driving the need for ...

21 Sep 2026 | Monday | Interaction
Lattice Semiconductor Launches AI-Powered FPGA Development Tool Lattice Prompt

Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low-power programmable and platform firmware leader, introduced a new leadership AI-powered FPGA development tool for small and mid-range FPGAs that redefines how FPGA developers work across the full design flow. Lattice Prompt pairs with AI agentic tools developers already use, combining them with Lattice design tools, knowledge base, and documentation to...

21 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS

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