Normal Computing announced $50 million in strategic funding led by Samsung Catalyst Fund, bringing total funding to more than $85 million. New investors also include Galvanise, Brevan Howard Macro Venture Fund, and ArcTern Ventures, alongside existing investors Celesta Capital, Drive Capital, Eric Schmidt's First Spark Ventures, and Micron Ventures. Normal was founded to tackle two converging cr...
Acquisition accelerates Ecolab’s sales growth by significantly expanding its Global High-Tech growth engine, creating an end-to-end fluid management and cooling platform for AI data centers Ecolab announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CoolIT Systems, a high-growth, high-margin leader in liquid cooling technology for next-gen AI data cen...
Advanced Micro Devices has expanded its strategic collaboration with Samsung Electronics, reinforcing supply chain alignment for next-generation AI and data centre technologies. The agreement focuses on securing advanced memory solutions while also exploring potential manufacturing partnerships. Under the arrangement, Samsung is expected to supply its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) for AMD&r...
APEC 2026 — In booth 2218, SimpleChips Technology Inc., a global provider of analogue and mixed-signal application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for automotive, medical, industrial and aerospace applications, announced the availability of the 18SCT005, the industry’s first 1200V high-voltage monitor IC. With a superior output accuracy of 0.7%, this monolithic IC is ide...
Qnity Electronics, Inc. (“Qnity”) (NYSE: Q), a premier technology solutions leader across the semiconductor value chain, announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate AI-driven innovation using open NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano, ALCHEMI BMD NIM, LAMMPS Kokkos, and CUDA-X accelerated Abaqus for modeling and simulation technologies. The collaboration is focused on advancing materials res...
At Embedded World 2026, branded semiconductor memory enterprise Longsys (301308.SZ) demonstrated its integrated storage innovation capabilities and dual business-model value under the theme "AI Storage for Embedded World". Automotive-grade Portfolio Powers Intelligent Vehicles With seven years of expertise in automotive-grade storage, Longsys has built comprehensive capabilities across chi...
Siemens announced the Fuse™ EDA AI Agent system, a purpose-built domain-scoped autonomous AI agent that plans and orchestrates multi-tool and multi-agent complex semiconductor, 3D IC and printed circuit board (PCB) system workflows that span across design, verification and manufacturing sign-off. Supporting NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, advanced Nemotron models and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, the Fuse...
Semiconductor equipment supplier E&R Engineering Corp. (8027.TW) announced its new office in Hillsboro, Portland. Following the establishment of its Phoenix, Arizona site, this second North American hub marks a milestone in providing localized support within the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem. Closer to Key Customers, with Order Visibility Extending to 2027 Driven by surging de...
Innatera, a specialist in neuromorphic computing for ultra-low-power edge AI, has partnered with Joya Design to deliver a commercially viable consumer audio solution powered by its Pulsar chip. The collaboration marks a significant step in transitioning brain-inspired computing from development into real-world product deployment. Joya Design has successfully integrated Innatera’s Pulsar mic...
Kinaxis® Inc. (TSX: KXS), a global leader in supply chain orchestration, announced a new milestone in advancing large-scale supply chain optimisation within the Kinaxis Maestro™ platform. Maestro already delivers high-performance optimisation across complex global supply chains, and Kinaxis is now extending that leadership by leveraging GPU acceleration powered by NVIDIA cuOpt&...
Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, announced a strategic partnership with O-Net Technologies and Enablence Technologies Inc. (TSXV: ENA) to develop an advanced external light source (ELS) module with Sivers laser arrays to support Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) roll-out in AI datacenters and HPC systems. O-Net ...
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony) today announced the upcoming launch of the IMX908, a 4K CMOS image sensor for security cameras featuring the industry's smallest 1.45 µm LOFIC pixels. * The new sensor utilises newly developed LOFIC pixels to achieve 96dB high dynamic range images with a single exposure at 4K resolution. This results in improved low-light performance...
At GTC 2026, Synopsys presented the outcomes of its ongoing collaboration with NVIDIA, highlighting how the integration of AI and accelerated computing is reshaping modern engineering and design processes. By combining its expertise in electronic design automation (EDA) and simulation with NVIDIA’s high-performance computing technologies, Synopsys is enabling organisations to tackle increas...
Tower Semiconductor has announced a strategic collaboration with Oriole Networks to accelerate the development of next-generation AI infrastructure, leveraging nanosecond optical circuit switching technology. The partnership brings together Oriole’s advanced networking architecture with Tower’s high-volume silicon photonics manufacturing platform. The objective is to commercialise opt...
Wolfspeed, Inc. (NYSE: WOLF), a global leader in silicon carbide technology, announced that its 300mm silicon carbide (SiC) technology platform could serve as a foundational materials enabler for advanced AI and high‑performance computing (HPC) heterogeneous packaging by the end of this decade. “As AI workloads continue to increase package size, power density, and integration complexity, ...
Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, and Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED platform company, announced a long-term collaboration to develop a new class of optical interconnect solutions to power the next wave of high-performance AI data center infrastructure. Today’s rapidly growing AI workloads are beginning to str...
A leading semiconductor advanced packaging equipment manufacturer, Manz Asia, announced a strategic partnership with Seiko Epson Corporation (Epson) aimed at accelerating the adoption of advanced inkjet technology in semiconductor manufacturing. The collaboration combines Manz Asia's expertise in semiconductor equipment engineering, process integration, and intelligent software with E...
Nordic Semiconductor, a global leader in low-power wireless connectivity solutions, announces Nordic Fuel Gauge v2.0, a major upgrade of its highly accurate software-based fuel gauge solution for the award-winning nPM1300 and nPM1304 Power Management ICS, at Embedded World 2026. The release adds sophisticated State-of-Health estimation, adaptive battery modelling, and long-term fleet analytics cap...
Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) persistent memory solutions, announced the UNISYST MRAM family, a new generation of unified memory designed to fundamentally change how embedded systems store and access code and data. “System designers are running into the physical and p...
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading provider of high-performance semiconductor, Internet of Things (IoT) systems and cloud connectivity service solutions, announced a partnership with Digital Barriers to deliver a fully integrated device-to-cloud cellular video solution, Semtech Video Compression, purpose-built for critical video surveillance and analytics. The turnkey solution int...