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
SEEQC Launches US–Taiwan Quantum Technology Ecosystem

SEEQC, the pioneer in building quantum computers with integrated cryogenic electronics on a chip and a leading supplier of quantum processing technology, announced a new US-Taiwan quantum technology ecosystem that brings together leading semiconductor, electronics, and academic partners to accelerate the commercialization of its Single Flux Quantum (SFQ)-based quantum computing platform. These par...

13 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
OMRON Launches P6K Relay Socket for Easy PCB Assembly and Maintenance

OMRON Electronic Components, a global leader in innovative component solutions, announced the launch of its P6K relay sockets, a surface-mount connecting socket designed specifically for the G6K PCB terminal-type relay series, including G6K-2P and G6K(U)-2P-Y models. The new socket solution streamlines printed circuit board (PCB) assembly while simplifying relay replacement and repair in both manu...

13 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Impinj and EM Microelectronic Sign Licensing Agreement for Gen2X Technology

Impinj, Inc. a leading RAIN RFID provider and Internet of Things pioneer, announced a licensing agreement with EM Microelectronic, a semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra-low power, low voltage integrated circuits (IC), to integrate Impinj Gen2X into future EM endpoint ICs. “We are committed to enabling a broader ecosystem of product and technology pro...

13 Jan 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
OpenAccess Coalition Announces 2026 Board of Directors

The OpenAccess Coalition is pleased to announce its 2026 Board of Directors, now representing 16 member companies. In 2025, the Coalition welcomed new representatives from Google and NVIDIA, further strengthening its leadership and commitment to advancing open standards in the semiconductor industry. -- The Board of Directors oversees the operations of the OpenAccess Coalition, including the membe...

12 Jan 2026 | Monday | NEWS