MegaChips and proteanTecs Advance Embedded Silicon Monitoring for AI and High-Performance ASICs

Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Noritaka Kojima, General Manager, proteanTecs Japan, about the collaboration between MegaChips and proteanTecs and how embedded silicon monitoring and analytics can help customers improve power, performance, yield and reliability across the lifecycle of advanced ASIC and LSI platforms.   Q. What was the key business opportunity behind bringing protea...

23 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | Interaction
OpenLight Strengthens Leadership Team to Scale Silicon Photonics and AI Connectivity

OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous silicon photonics integration and custom photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) design, announced two significant additions to its executive leadership team: Kevin Soukup as Chief Operating Officer and Kirk Ouellette as Chief Strategy Officer and Interim Chief Revenue Officer. Soukup joins OpenLight after leading the Silicon Photonics busines...

22 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
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
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
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
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
Valens Semiconductor Appoints Semtech COO Asaf Silberstein to Board of Directors

Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a leading provider of high-performance connectivity chipsets, announced the appointment of Asaf Silberstein, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Semtech Corporation, to its Board of Directors. Silberstein brings more than two decades of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry, with extensive expertise in global operations, business...

16 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Axcelis Invests $35 Million in New Ion Implantation Facility in South Korea

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACLS), a leading supplier of enabling ion implantation solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced plans to invest $35 million in its global manufacturing infrastructure through the construction of a new ion implantation equipment manufacturing facility in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Korea. President and CEO Russell Low commented, "This investme...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
PsiQuantum Secures $100 Million US CHIPS Funding to Advance Quantum Computing Manufacturing

PsiQuantum announced that the company has signed definitive documentation with the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $100 million award to strengthen American leadership in quantum computing and semiconductor supply-chain security. In May 2026, the company announced that it had signed a letter of intent with the Department for $100 million in proposed federal research and development (R&...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Baya Systems Targets Japan’s AI and Chiplet Market with Advanced Data-Movement Technology

In this exclusive interview,  Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Nandan Nayampally, Chief Commercial Officer at Baya Systems, about the company’s expansion into Japan and the growing opportunities across the country’s semiconductor ecosystem. Nayampally shares his insights into the rising demand for AI, HPC, automotive and chiplet-based architectures, the importance of efficien...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | Interaction
Lam Research and NY CREATES Launch Semiconductor Training Programme to Address US Talent Shortage

Robert E. Geer, Vice President for Education and Workforce Development at NY CREATES, speaks to Semicon Leaders Asia about the five-year partnership with Lam Research to strengthen semiconductor talent development. The programme aims to equip around 3,500 students with advanced process integration skills through virtual fabrication and digital-twin technology, helping prepare the workforce for the...

27 Aug 2026 | Thursday | Interaction
SEMICON India 2026: PM Modi to Inaugurate Global Semiconductor Industry Event in New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate SEMICON India 2026 at Yashobhoomi, the India International Convention and Expo Centre in New Delhi. The event will bring together stakeholders from across the global semiconductor ecosystem, including manufacturers, technology companies, equipment and materials suppliers, investors, researchers and policymakers. Organised by SEMI in collaboration with ...

21 Aug 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Gradiant Expands US Water Infrastructure Push as AI and Semiconductor Demand Grows

Every microchip, data centre, and megawatt of AI capacity depends on water. Gradiant, the water layer of the AI economy, announced a series of milestones reinforcing its ability to solve that constraint across the United States: a new US leadership hire, three new offices, an innovation centre, and long-term services contracts, including one with a chip major. Gradiant named Dr Nish Vora as ...

20 Aug 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Mimik and AMD Advance Device-First Agentic AI for Physical Systems

In this exclusive interview with Semicon Leaders Asia, Fay Arjomandi, Founder, CEO and Board Member of mimik, shares how mimOE Embedded Edition and AMD’s Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series are shaping a device-first approach to Agentic AI, enabling secure, scalable and efficient intelligence for physical AI, autonomous systems and industrial automation.   Q. mimOE Embedded Edition has been...

17 Aug 2026 | Monday | Interaction
Sivers Semiconductors and SemiNex Launch $3.4M InP Laser Programme for AI Data Centre Interconnects

Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies and SemiNex Corporation, a developer of high-power indium phosphide (InP) laser diodes, DFB lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and external cavity lasers, announced a program for next-generation InP light sources for AI data center interconnects. The program is initially valued at ap...

14 Aug 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Aeonsemi Brings 10Gbps Ethernet Over Existing Coax to Next-Generation AI and Broadband Networks

Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Mike Hansen, Sr. Product Line Manager at Aeonsemi, on how LumaReach™ is reshaping Ethernet-over-coax deployments and enabling cost-effective, high-speed connectivity. Q. LumaReach™ introduces what you describe as the industry's first commercially available 10 Gbps Ethernet-over-coax network controller. What market opportunity did Aeonsemi identify, a...

13 Aug 2026 | Thursday | Interaction
Cirrus Logic Bets Big on Smart Energy with Next-Gen Metrology AFE Platform

SemiconLeaders Asia speaks with Eddie Sinnott, VP, Automotive and Industrial, Cirrus Logic, on the company's big bet on smart energy — from its Scottish Enterprise-funded metrology analogue front-end platform and University of Strathclyde partnership to Edinburgh's growing role as its largest engineering hub outside the United States. Q. Cirrus Logic has received R&D funding from Scotti...

12 Aug 2026 | Wednesday | Interaction
AP Memory Appoints Former Qualcomm and NXP Executive Jian Zhang to Leadership Team

AP Memory, a leading global design company providing customised memory solutions, announced the appointment of Jian Zhang to its leadership team. Jian will apply her extensive global semiconductor experience to help strengthen AP Memory's technology development, product engineering, operations management, and global customer collaboration, supporting the company's next phase of growth and global e...

11 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Ambiq Advances Edge AI Development with Open-Source heliaPROFILER for Apollo SoCs

Semicon Leaders Asia Speaks with Dr Adam Page, Head of AI at Ambiq, on AI Workload Optimisation, Open-Source Edge AI and the HELIA Ecosystem Q. heliaPROFILER is designed to simplify AI workload optimisation on resource-constrained devices. What specific challenges faced by edge AI developers does this new tool address, and how does it improve the development process? The conversation around...

11 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | Interaction