• Monday | 21 September 2026
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
NovoLINC Launches MaxLINC Thermal Interface Material for High-Power AI Chips

NovoLINC, an innovator in advanced thermal interface material (TIM) solutions for high announced MaxLINC, a new generation of thermal interface material engineered for the rapidly increasing power and heat flux of AI computing. MaxLINC achieves thermal resistance as low as 0.7 mm²•K/W with excellent reliability, delivering over 20% cooling energy savings for AI servers compared to c...

21 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS
SK hynix Launches SK hynix Ventures to Expand Strategic AI Ecosystem Partnerships

SK hynix Inc. (or "the company", www.skhynix.com) announced the launch of its corporate venture capital (CVC) brand, "SK hynix Ventures," aimed at expanding strategic partnerships within the global AI ecosystem and securing future innovative technologies. To mark the occasion, SK hynix held the inaugural "SK hynix Ventures Day" in Silicon Valley, where executives shared investment strategies...

21 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS
India Advances Semiconductor Ecosystem as SEMICON India 2026 Highlights Scale, Talent and Global Partnerships

India is moving towards the next phase of its semiconductor ambitions, with the second day of SEMICON India 2026 highlighting progress across chip design, manufacturing, advanced packaging, materials, research and development, supply chains and talent. Speaking during a fireside conversation, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Railways, and Information ...

19 Sep 2026 | Saturday | NEWS
Odisha Steps Up Semiconductor Ambitions with ₹23,600 Crore Investment Proposals

Odisha is stepping up its efforts to establish itself as a significant semiconductor and electronics hub, showcasing its expanding capabilities across the value chain at SEMICON India 2026 in New Delhi. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw and Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated the Odisha Pavilion at Yashobhoomi, where the state highlighted ...

19 Sep 2026 | Saturday | NEWS
Tata Electronics and Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya Partner to Build Semiconductor Talent Pipeline

Tata Electronics and Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop industry-ready talent for India’s expanding semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. The partnership will focus on building specialised skills needed for semiconductor manufacturing facilities and supporting infrastructure. Tata Electronics and GSV will work with Tata Electronics&...

18 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem Poised for Rapid Growth as Industry Leaders Highlight Expansion

India’s semiconductor industry is entering a new phase of expansion, with industry leaders highlighting growing manufacturing capacity, supply-chain localisation, global partnerships and workforce development at SEMICON India 2026. Dr. Randhir Thakur, CEO and MD of Tata Electronics, said India has moved beyond the question of whether it can manufacture semiconductors and is now focused on ho...

18 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
D-Robotics Raises $400 Million Series C to Scale AI Robotics Infrastructure

D-Robotics, a leading provider of robotics development infrastructure, announced the closing of a US$400 million Series C funding round. The round attracted strategic investment from a leading global internet company, alongside top-tier investment institutions, and continued follow-on investments from existing shareholders. The funding aims to enhance Sunrise™ Chip's product portfolio acros...

18 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Bloom Energy’s 800V DC Fuel Cells Could Cut AI Data Centre Costs by $5.5 Billion

Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), a global leader in power solutions, released a special report, “The New Rules of AI Power,” showing that its unique 800V DC-native fuel cell solution can reduce non-compute capital expenditures for a 1 GW AI data centre by $3.6 billion, or 27%, and the five-year total cost of ownership by $5.5 billion, or 9%. The conventional power system architecture was buil...

18 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SEMICON India 2026 Opens as India Showcases Growing Semiconductor Ecosystem

India is showcasing the progress of its semiconductor industry as SEMICON India 2026 gets underway in New Delhi, bringing together global and Indian companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, start-ups and academic institutions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the fifth edition of the three-day conference and exhibition at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, on 17 September. The event is being...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
India Unveils ‘Semicon 2.0’ to Accelerate Semiconductor Ecosystem

India is moving into the next phase of its semiconductor development with the launch of ‘Semicon 2.0’, a programme focused on expanding the country’s capabilities across chip design, manufacturing, advanced packaging, research and development, and talent development. Speaking at SEMICON India 2026, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said t...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
SEMICON India 2026 to Bring Together Global Semiconductor Ecosystem in New Delhi

New Delhi is set to host SEMICON India 2026 from 17–19 September, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to inaugurate the three-day conference and exhibition at Yashobhoomi on 17 September. Organised around the theme ‘Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem’, the event will bring together global and Indian semiconductor companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, s...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
AI Financing Drives Hedge Fund Positioning Shifts Across Semiconductor Stocks

AI remained a key theme for global hedge funds in August, as the financing of the AI infrastructure buildout increasingly shifted from equity toward debt-financed structures. As AI-related corporate debt issuance accelerated, companies relying more heavily on external financing for AI investment showed early signs of greater sensitivity than those funding growth through internal cash generation, a...

18 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Anderon Secures $1 Billion CHIPS Award to Advance Quantum Wafer Manufacturing

Anderon LLC ("Anderon"), an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, announced the finalisation of a $1 billion award under the CHIPS and Science Act with the U.S. Department of Commerce (the "Department"). The award will accelerate Anderon's R&D efforts to advance the nation's quantum wafer manufacturing capabilities. Announced in May under a letter of intent between the Department and IBM, Anderon operates...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Air Products Invests $250 Million in Arizona to Support US Semiconductor Expansion

Air Products (NYSE: APD) announced it has signed a long-term agreement with one of the leading semiconductor manufacturers to supply high-purity industrial gases and related infrastructure to support the customer's plant and production expansion plans in the United States (U.S.). This is the second semiconductor manufacturing supply win Air Products has recently announced, with a combined inv...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
MIPI Alliance Forms Kinematics Working Group to Standardise Radar and Lidar Data

The MIPI Alliance, an international organisation that develops specifications that standardise wired interfaces for mobile and other connected ecosystems, announced the formation of a Kinematics Working Group focused on the development of a specification to standardise the format of kinematic sensor data streams transported over the broadly implemented MIPI CSI-2 camera and imaging interface. Kin...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Cadence and Analog Devices Develop Next-Generation SHARC-FX DSP for Automotive Audio

Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced that its Tensilica IP Group and Analogue Devices, Inc. (ADI) worked together to develop the latest generation of SHARC® automotive audio processors, further strengthening ADI’s industry-leading position in premium in-vehicle audio solutions. The joint effort brings Cadence’s highly optimised Tensilica DSP architecture into the next-generation ADSP p...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
TeRAM Emerges from Stealth with $37 Million to Develop 3D SRAM for AI Datacentres

TeRAM emerged from stealth with $37 million in equity financing from early-stage investors to tackle the memory wall facing AI deployment. The company is developing custom 3D SRAM for frontier AI applications, initially in data centers. As AI models scale beyond two trillion parameters, new memory technology is needed to increase capacity and throughput while reducing power consumption. TeRAM is v...

18 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Aeonsemi Advances Ultra-Compact Timing Solutions for Automotive, Robotics and Physical AI

Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Foeking Wu, Clock Product Line Manager at Aeonsemi, about the company’s ArcadiumNano™ silicon oscillator family and how ultra-low power, flexible frequency coverage and compact packaging are enabling next-generation intelligent systems. Q. Aeonsemi is bringing its proven Arcadium™ timing technology into the new ArcadiumNano™ family. What ma...

16 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | Interaction

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