• Monday | 09 November 2026
Sony Introduces 50MP LYTIA 720 Smartphone Image Sensor with Improved Low-Light Performance and 4K HDR Video

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony) announced the upcoming release of the LYTIA 720, an approximately 50-effective megapixel*1 image sensor for mobile applications that delivers industry-leading*2 low-light performance and supports 4K 60 fps HDR video recording. Designed for use on the main camera of mobile devices, the new sensor inherits technologies developed for Sony's LYTIA high-...

29 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
ChipNexus Launches NEX Analog Agent to Automate Semiconductor Design and Verification

ChipNexus™, a developer of agentic AI software for semiconductor and hardware design, announced the availability of the NEX™ Analog Agent, which brings analog design capabilities to NEX™, its multi-agent engineering platform. The Analog Agent works directly with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre simulation and Siemens Calibre physical verification, using the EDA licenses and process desi...

29 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Phison Electronics Wins Two Micron Supplier Awards for Semiconductor Performance and Quality

Phison Electronics (8299TT), a global leader in NAND flash controllers and storage solutions, is honored to announce that it was presented with Outstanding Supplier Performance Awards in the Semiconductor category and the Best in Quality – Assembly and Test category at the Micron Supplier Day 2026. The event, held in Boise, Idaho, United States was attended by top-level management of Micron ...

29 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Movandi Launches 60GHz Wireless Connectivity Platform Delivering Over 5Gbps for Edge AI and 5G Networks

Movandi, the semiconductor and systems innovator powering next-generation wireless communications, announced its new 60GHz connectivity platform, powered by the MV6055 60GHz transceiver, to address the growing bandwidth and latency requirements across multiple markets including physical AI, fixed wireless access (FWA), integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), and network backhaul. The platfor...

29 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
SambaNova and Oracle Partner to Deploy SN50 AI Inference Chips in OCI Data Centres

SambaNova and Oracle are collaborating to deploy SambaRack SN50 inference chips in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers. Oracle will offer the capacity to AI model builders. The plan adds high-performance inference chips to OCI’s growing range of AI infrastructure, giving customers more choice in how they run inference at scale. SambaNova, the AI chip company delivering ...

29 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Japan Plans Additional ¥400 Billion Investment in Rapidus to Advance 2nm Chip Production

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) plans to seek an additional ¥400 billion (around US$2.5 billion) in government investment in chipmaker Rapidus over three fiscal years starting in 2027. The plan was disclosed on 19 October in documents submitted to a subcommittee of the Fiscal System Council, which advises Japan's Finance Minister. METI is seeking ¥150 billion in its...

28 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
China's Chip Manufacturing Expansion Threatens South Korean Memory Margins, PwC Says

South Korea's semiconductor industry needs to strengthen its cost competitiveness and move towards higher-value products as China expands its chip manufacturing capacity, according to a new report from Samil PwC, the South Korean member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Published on 26 October 2026, the report examines how China's semiconductor industry has developed beyond individual technology in...

27 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
JST Launches Apex Wafer Dryer with Faster Processing and Improved Defect Control

 JST, a leading provider of wet benches, wafer cleaning and processing tools for the semiconductor industry, announced Apex, its upgraded Marangoni-type, isopropyl alcohol (IPA)-based wafer dryer. The new Apex dryer enables improved device yields by delivering reduced particle defect size and density and 10% to 15% shorter drying cycle times compared to JST’s existing IPA dryer. &n...

27 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Nagare Labs Introduces Z2RAM Memory Technology to Address AI Chip Performance Bottlenecks

Nagare Labs emerged from stealth with $5M led by Playground Global and a new memory technology designed to overcome the most critical hardware bottleneck in AI innovation. Combining density and speed, Nagare’s memory technology promises to make AI compute systems more fluid, responsive, and economically scalable. A spinout of Georgia Tech, Nagare Labs was co-founded by Dr Suman Datta and Dr...

27 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
RAAAM Memory Technologies Appoints Former Intel Foundry and Samsung Executive Hong Hao as Strategic Advisor

RAAAM Memory Technologies, a startup company providing an ultra-high-density, low-power on-chip memory technology, announced the appointment of Hong Hao, a former executive at Intel Foundry and Samsung Electronics, as Strategic Advisor. In this role, Mr Hao will work closely with RAAAM's executive team to support the company’s strategic growth and accelerate market engagement with customers ...

27 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
HCLTech and Rapidus Open Two Semiconductor Engineering Centres in India

HCLTech (NSE: HCLTECH) (BSE: HCLTECH), a leading global technology company, and Rapidus Corporation, a Japanese company developing and manufacturing advanced logic semiconductors, officially inaugurated two HCLTech development centres in India dedicated to supporting Rapidus' evolving semiconductor engineering requirements. The centres, located in Bengaluru and Hubli, will leverage HCLTech's...

27 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
How AlpSemi Is Reinventing Power Semiconductors for Solid-State Circuit Breakers

AlpSemi aims to transform this landscape by developing advanced power semiconductor devices specifically designed for solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs). This approach addresses a key challenge: improving the efficiency, compactness and cost competitiveness of semiconductor-based protection. Founded in 2024 by Frédéric Dupont and Fabrice Letertre, both former executives at Soitec,...

26 Oct 2026 | Monday | Feature
Atomera, IQE Partner to Develop RF GaN-on-Silicon for Volume Manufacturing

Atomera has signed a joint development agreement with IQE plc to develop gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers for radio-frequency (RF) semiconductor applications, targeting improved device performance and lower manufacturing costs in high-volume markets. The collaboration will bring together Atomera's Mears Silicon Technology (MST) and IQE's compound semiconductor epitaxy capabilities to...

26 Oct 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Helion Secures Agreement for Up to $175 Million in US CHIPS Funding for Fusion Semiconductor Development

Funds will support next-generation semiconductor research and development in Everett, Washington, enabling substantial power module manufacturing capability in Washington State. The project will also support research and development for domestic next-generation semiconductor tooling. Helion, a Washington-based fusion energy company, announced it has signed a letter of intent with the U.S. De...

26 Oct 2026 | Monday | NEWS
TASKING and NXP Introduce Unified Software Development Toolchain for S32K5 Automotive Microcontrollers

TASKING, a leading provider of embedded software development tools, announced the first and only single-vendor unified toolchain for NXP® Semiconductors’ S32K5 microcontroller family. Developed in close collaboration with NXP, this toolchain brings compilation, debugging, and verification together in one workflow, accelerating development of next-generation zonal architectures and electr...

26 Oct 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Rambus Partners with ChipAgents to Accelerate Semiconductor Chip Design and Verification

Rambus adopts ChipAgents agentic AI platform to accelerate its own chip and IP design and verification workflows The partnership brings together tailored Rambus silicon IP and ChipAgents’ agentic AI capabilities to speed up chip design and IP integration across customer-preferred design environments Rambus becomes a strategic investor in ChipAgents, reflecting shared commitment to advanc...

26 Oct 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Infinity Appoints Former Meta Engineer Aditya Om and CUDA Expert Elliot Arledge to Strengthen AI Chip Software Development

Infinity (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an automated AI research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced two key hires to its engineering team. Aditya Om, a former senior software engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), joins Infinity as Staff Inference Optimisation Engineer, and Elliot Arledge, whose CUDA and LLM coding courses h...

26 Oct 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Renesas Launches 600 MHz RX74M and RX74N Microcontrollers with 22nm Technology and Embedded MRAM

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, launched the RX74M and RX74N, new flagship 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) that deliver up to 600 MHz performance and are the first in the RX Family to be built on a 22nm process and incorporate embedded MRAM. Both devices deliver more than twice the performance of their 240 MHz predecessors, the RX7...

23 Oct 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SEEQC and NVIDIA Demonstrate 50% Improvement in Quantum Error Correction Performance

SEEQC, Inc. (“SEEQC” or the “Company”), a chip-based quantum computing company, announced results demonstrating significant performance improvements in quantum error correction decoding through a digital interface optimized multi-stage decoding architecture combining SEEQC’s chip-based pre-decoder technology with the NVIDIA Ising open family of AI models. SEEQC&rsquo...

23 Oct 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Atomera and IQE Partner to Develop High-Performance RF GaN-on-Silicon Wafers

Atomera, a semiconductor transistor materials and technology licensing company, announced it has entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with IQE plc, the leading global supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions, to bring high-performance, cost-effective RF GaN to market. The collaboration leverages Atomera’s recently announced application of ...

23 Oct 2026 | Friday | NEWS

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