• Friday | 23 October 2026
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
Intelligence per Microjoule: Why the Next Era of AI Will Be Decided at the Edge

For most of the past three years, the semiconductor industry has measured AI progress in one direction. Models have grown larger, clusters have grown denser, and accelerators have been paired with more high-bandwidth memory with each generation. That build-out has been remarkable, and it will continue. As we look toward 2027, though, the constraints shaping our industry are becoming as important a...

23 Oct 2026 | Friday | Feature
Photon Bridge Raises €10 Million to Scale Laser Production for AI Data Centres

Photon Bridge has raised €10 million to tackle an emerging bottleneck in AI infrastructure: producing the millions of lasers that will be needed to connect increasingly large clusters of AI processors. The round was co-led by new investors the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, with existing investors Innovation Industries, Faber, and Brabant Development Agency (BOM) also increasi...

23 Oct 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Precision Visibility for Stable Semiconductor Manufacturing

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most demanding industrial environments in the world. A modern fab brings together a vast range of systems: tightly controlled production processes, highly sensitive equipment, vacuum and gas delivery systems, electrical and mechanical infrastructure, cooling and utility systems, and cleanroom conditions—all of which must perform with exceptional cons...

23 Oct 2026 | Friday | NEWS
indie Semiconductor’s Photonics Technology Selected for Europe’s Copernicus CHIME Space Mission

indie Semiconductor (Nasdaq: INDI), an automotive solutions innovator, announced that superluminescent light-emitting diodes (SLEDs) from its photonics portfolio have completed final space qualification testing and have been selected for use in the Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment (CHIME). The selection builds on indie Photonics' existing work in space programs, where o...

22 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Samsung Electro-Mechanics and NVIDIA Partner to Expand AI Chip Substrate Production in South Korea

Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced that it has entered into a strategic business partnership with NVIDIA to strengthen the global AI semiconductor supply chain and accelerate the expansion of next-generation AI infrastructure. Under the agreement, the two companies will jointly invest in expanding dedicated manufacturing facilities for ABF package substrates used in AI semiconductors. Leveraging...

22 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Beyond Faster Chips: Why Data Movement Will Shape AI’s Next Chapter in 2027

That approach has worked incredibly well, but as we look toward 2027, it’s becoming clear that adding compute alone won’t sustain the next wave of AI innovation. The problem is that moving data to those processors, moving it between components, and managing it across complex systems are becoming just as important as the compute itself. An AI accelerator may have enormous processing c...

22 Oct 2026 | Thursday | Feature
Positron AI Secures Atlas and Titan Inference System Orders from General Compute

Positron AI announced that General Compute will purchase its Atlas inference systems and has committed to purchasing its next-generation Titan systems, expanding General Compute's dedicated inference offering. The agreement expands General Compute's world-class inference offering with Atlas and establishes a path to Titan, Positron's next-generation memory-first platform designed to brin...

22 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
HP and Infinity Double AI Inference Throughput on NVIDIA GB300 Platform

Infinity (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an automated AI research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced a collaboration with HP Inc. Infinity and HP have been working together to use Infinity Auto Research to optimize the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super model running on the HP ZGX Fury powered by NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Super...

22 Oct 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
SUSS Expands into Wafer Cleaning with GreenTec Solutions and 2027 Manufacturing Roadmap

As advanced packaging and semiconductor manufacturing become increasingly complex, demand for efficient, sustainable wafer-cleaning technologies is growing. SUSS is entering this market with GreenTec Solutions, expanding its photomask cleaning expertise into wafer-level applications. Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Yuta Nagai, Senior Vice President, Photomask Solutions at SUSS, about the company'...

22 Oct 2026 | Thursday | Interaction
Rocket One Partners with Virginia Commonwealth University to Develop Energy-Efficient Magnetic Computing Devices

Rocket One Inc. ("Rocket One" or the "Company") announced a sponsored research agreement with Virginia Commonwealth University ("VCU") to develop and demonstrate magnetic computing devices targeting a critical challenge in artificial intelligence: delivering greater computational capability while reducing energy consumption. The agreement establishes a one-year fabrication and testing progra...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Axcelis Invests $35 Million in New Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing Facility in South Korea

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACLS), a leading supplier of enabling ion implantation solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced that it will officially break ground on its new ion implantation equipment manufacturing facility in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Korea. This $35 million investment reflects Axcelis' continued commitment to strengthening its high-volume manufacturing infr...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
The AI Chip Supply Chain in 2026: 10 Pinch Points, Ranked by How Long They Will Last

SEMICON LEADERS ASIA ANALYSIS | OCTOBER 2026 Key takeaways HBM is the most severe shortage of 2026, but not the most durable. Record memory capex should bring meaningful relief by 2028, even if supply does not fully normalise in 2027. Wafers, CoWoS-class packaging and liquid cooling are cyclical constraints. Committed capacity with visible start dates should ease them from the second half of ...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
xMEMS Begins Mass Production of Solid-State Cooling Chips for AI Devices and Data Centres

Marks the first large-scale commercialization of solid-state active cooling for Edge AI Extends xMEMS’ thermal management platform across AI glasses, AI smartphones and data center infrastructure First commercial products featuring XMC-2400 expected to reach market in early 2027 xMEMS Labs, Inc., the pioneer of the world's first solid-state MEMS speakers and breakthrough &mu...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Sivers Semiconductors Secures First Production Orders for Automotive and Industrial LiDAR Lasers

Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, announced that its strategic LiDAR customer has initiated production orders for its automotive and industrial sensing customers. Sivers will supply the continuous-wave distributed feedback (CW DFB) lasers and optical amplifiers powering the customer's LiDAR platforms, positioning the company to support g...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
EV Group Advances Co-Packaged Optics Manufacturing with Wafer Bonding and Nanoimprint Lithography

As demand for faster, more energy-efficient AI infrastructure grows, co-packaged optics (CPO) is creating new opportunities for Asia's semiconductor foundries, packaging providers and photonics manufacturers. However, scaling production requires advances in wafer bonding, materials integration and precision manufacturing. Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Dr Bernd Dielacher, Director of Busine...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | Interaction
Tamil Nadu Launches Semiconductor Scheme with Up to 25% Capital Subsidies

The Tamil Nadu government has introduced the Tamil Nadu Semiconductor Ecosystem Scheme 2026, offering capital subsidies of up to 25% to attract semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain investments. Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay launched the scheme on 15 October 2026 at the State Secretariat in Chennai. The programme is designed to support semiconductor projects across fabrication, assembly, ...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Nordson SonoFlex Wins 2026 Best of West Award for Advanced Semiconductor Inspection

Nordson Test & Inspection has won the 2026 Best of West Award at SEMICON West for its SonoFlex Acoustic System, an automated inspection platform designed to improve defect identification and production throughput in small panel-based semiconductor assemblies. The award was announced on 15 October 2026 by SEMI and Semiconductor Digest during SEMICON West 2026, held at the Moscone Center in San...

20 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS

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