Global Semiconductor Market to Surpass USD 1 Trillion by 2031, Driven by AI, EVs and Advanced Packaging

Mordor Intelligence has published its latest analysis of the semiconductor industry, highlighting sustained expansion driven by artificial intelligence infrastructure, electric vehicle adoption, advanced packaging technologies, and increasing investments in domestic chip manufacturing ecosystems.  According to the industry analysis, the semiconductor industry size stood at USD...

19 Jun 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SandboxAQ Secures $500 Million CHIPS Award to Advance Domestic Semiconductor Materials Innovation

SandboxAQ announced a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce's CHIPS Research and Development Office for a $500 million award to address one of the most urgent challenges in American manufacturing: the foreign control of critical materials and chemistries that are essential to semiconductor manufacturing. The award provides funding to develop novel molecules and formulatio...

18 Jun 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Rapidus and Fondazione Chips-IT Forge Partnership to Strengthen Japan-Italy Semiconductor Collaboration

Rapidus Corporation announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Fondazione Chips-IT, an Italian private-law foundation dedicated to semiconductor circuit design. The Fondazione Chips-IT plays a central role in Italy's semiconductor ecosystem and collaborates with world-leading international research institutions and industry. In January of this year, the prime ...

17 Jun 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Rapidus and UK Semiconductor Centre Forge Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Future Chip Manufacturing

Rapidus Corporation announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC), a national body promoting the semiconductor industry in the UK, for future semiconductor manufacturing. The UKSC supports the development of the country's semiconductor ecosystem and growth strategies, as well as promotes international collaboration and technical par...

16 Jun 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Qnity Expands CMP Portfolio with New Optivision Max Polishing Pads

Qnity Electronics, Inc. (“Qnity”) (NYSE: Q), a premier technology solutions leader across the semiconductor value chain, announced the expansion of its offerings for chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) with the introduction of Optivision™ Max polishing pads. As semiconductor devices continue to shrink and increase in complexity, diverse CMP processes are critical to ach...

12 Jun 2026 | Friday | NEWS
ASPEED and Lattice Partner to Deliver Flexible Server Management for AI Data Centres

ASPEED Technology, the global leader in Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) and Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low-power programmable leader, announced a strategic partnership to advance flexible, growth-oriented control capabilities for next-generation datacenter systems. As a first commercial result of this collaboration, ASPEED introduced the AST1840 Satellite Management Con...

3 Jun 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Invisix Raises €20 Million to Advance Semiconductor Metrology Technology

Invisix, the semiconductor metrology company developing next-generation measurement tools for advanced chip manufacturing, has raised an oversubscribed €20 million seed round, which includes Hitachi Ventures, Transition Ventures, and imec. xpand, Doosan Investment Co., and a tier-1 semiconductor manufacturer. The funding will be used to grow the Invisix team, accelerate development of its fir...

2 Jun 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Fortress Investment Group Acquires Patent Licensing Specialist IPValue Management Group

Fortress Investment Group announced the acquisition of IPValue Management Group (“IPValue”), one of the world’s leading intellectual property (“IP”) licensing companies. Funds managed by Fortress Investment Group affiliates (“Fortress”) led a group of investors that acquired the company. “Coming off our strongest year to date, we view Fortress as un...

29 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Entegris, Inc. and JSR Corporation Sign EUV Materials Cross-Licensing Deal to Strengthen Next-Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing

Entegris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTG), a global leader in advanced materials and purity solutions for the semiconductor industry, and JSR Corporation, a materials innovation leader and the parent company of Inpria Corporation, announced entry into a non-exclusive cross-licensing agreement aimed at helping the semiconductor industry advance extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for next-generation chip man...

28 May 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
King Yuan Electronics Corp Invests S$100 Million in Singapore Semiconductor Testing Facility

Taiwanese semiconductor testing company King Yuan Electronics Corp (KYEC) is investing S$100 million in a new semiconductor testing facility in Singapore as part of its broader international expansion strategy. The project is expected to create more than 300 jobs across engineering, operations and management roles, strengthening Singapore’s position within the global semicond...

25 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Cyient Semiconductors Private Limited Launches First GaN Power IC Portfolio for India in Partnership with Navitas Semiconductor

Cyient Semiconductors Private Limited announced the launch of seven new gallium nitride (GaN) power devices for the Indian market, developed using Navitas Semiconductor's (Nasdaq: NVTS) industry-leading GaN technology.   The launch marks Cyient Semiconductors' first commercial GaN product family and a major milestone in advancing India's domestic power semiconductor ecosystem. The new p...

12 May 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
yieldWerx and WATS Partner to Unify Semiconductor and PCBA Test Analytics

Board-level and semiconductor test data are often analysed separately, limiting correlation across the product lifecycle. Linking PCB assembly (PCBA) test results, including in-circuit and functional test, with upstream wafer, sort, and final test data remains difficult, particularly in photonics, advanced packaging, and high-density integration environments. yieldWerx and WATS announce a partners...

11 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
SiTime Launches Precision Timing Solution for AI Data Centers

SiTime Corporation (NASDAQ: SITM), the Precision Timing company, announced the Elite 2 Super-TCXO® to increase GPU utilisation and compute efficiency in AI data centres by delivering better time synchronisation. The product targets a $1.5 billion cumulative market by 2030. “Industry reports show GPU utilisation in AI clusters can be as low as 20 to 40 per cent—a lar...

5 May 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
MintNeuro and Motif Partner to Advance Brain Implants

MintNeuro, a pioneer of scalable, low-power semiconductor technology for neural implant applications, and Motif Neurotech, a therapeutic brain-computer interface (BCI) company developing miniature implants for mental health, announced a new strategic partnership that will unite MintNeuro's specialised neural interface chip technology with Motif's clinical-stage therapeutic implant platform &n...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
FPT and Shinhan Bank Expand AI-Driven Finance Partnership

Global technology corporation FPT and Shinhan Bank Co., Ltd. (Korea) (“Shinhan Bank”) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand cooperation in digital finance, startup ecosystems, and strategic technologies, with AI as a key enabler to unlock new opportunities across innovation ecosystems in Vietnam and South Korea. The MOU exchange ceremony took place during the V...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
POLYN Advances Automotive Sensing with VibroSense Chip

POLYN Technology, a leader in neuromorphic technology with application-specific Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) products, has taped out a VibroSense™ engineering chip featuring an analog neuromorphic core for tire friction monitoring. This is POLYN’s first chip, developed in cooperation with GlobalFoundries, using more advanced nodes for this and the next generation of pr...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Cadence and NVIDIA Deepen AI Engineering Partnership

Expanded collaboration combines agentic AI, physics-based simulation, and digital twins to accelerate engineering and unlock new levels of productivity across semiconductors, physical AI systems and AI factories At CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2026, Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to deliver accelerated solutions across agentic AI, physics-based ...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Artemis Acquires Optikos Corporation to Accelerate Growth in Advanced Optical Engineering

Optikos® Corporation, a provider of engineering, manufacturing, and metrology expertise in optical systems, is joining forces with Artemis, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on scaling high-impact industrial tech. Through this acquisition, Artemis will provide the strategic support necessary to supercharge the engineering and manufacturing capabilities of Optikos. Through th...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
FPT Corporation and Intel Corporation Partner to Accelerate AI-Driven Factory Optimisation

FPT and Intel, a global leader in semiconductor and AI technologies, announced a strategic relationship to deliver an end-to-end AI-driven factory optimisation solution. Powered by AI, simulation, and digital manufacturing technologies, the collaboration aims to reduce bottlenecks, accelerate decision-making and improve downtime recovery, facilitating the sector’s transition towards AI-drive...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Everspin Technologies Partners with Microchip Technology to Expand MRAM Manufacturing Capacity

Everspin Technologies Inc., (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of persistent Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) solutions, announced its strategic manufacturing agreement with Microchip Technology to expand production capacity and strengthen long-term supply. Everspin has entered into an initial 10-year agreement, that can be extended in 2-year incremen...

10 Apr 2026 | Friday | NEWS