Charlene Wan of Ambiq Micro on Advancing Data-Efficient Edge AI with compressionKIT™

In this interview with Semicon Leaders Asia, Charlene Wan, VP of Corporate Marketing & IR at Ambiq Micro, highlights how compressionKIT™ is extending ultra-low-power AI beyond inference to fundamentally rethink how data is captured, stored, and utilised at the edge. By enabling intelligent AI-based compression for continuous sensor streams, the platform helps developers reduce transmissi...

8 May 2026 | Friday | Interaction
Liftr Insights Launches Predictive AI Scorecard for Hedge Funds and Semiconductor Markets

Liftr Insights announces the release of the Liftr® Indicator Scorecard™, a next-generation market intelligence index. This unique tool will fundamentally change how hedge funds and financial services firms identify, evaluate, and act on emerging signals across semiconductors, cloud providers, and AI infrastructure. The Indicator Scorecard introduces a scoring-based framew...

8 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SPARK Microsystems Wins Semiconductor Innovation Award for LE-UWB Transceiver

SPARK Microsystems, a Canadian fabless semiconductor company specialising in next-generation short-range wireless communications, announced that its SR1120 LE-UWB™ wireless transceiver has been honoured as a recipient of the Product Innovation Award in conjunction with the Semiconductor Achievement Awards hosted by Canada's Semiconductor Council (CSC). Presented last night at the&...

8 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Gemtek Technology Company Ltd Launches 1.6T AiPhoton OSFP Transceiver for AI Data Centres

Gemtek Technology Company Ltd, a global leader in advanced networking solutions, announced the AiPhoton 1.6T OSFP transceiver. Built in collaboration with NewPhotonics®, a pioneer in photonic integrated circuits, the module features the NPG10204 DR8 PIC transmitter-on-chip. This latest PIC-based pluggable enables simplified manufacturing of photonic ICs delivering advanced DSP functionality in...

7 May 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
UST Acquires Taciti to Strengthen SAP Transformation Capabilities

UST, a leading AI and technology transformation solutions company, has acquired Taciti Consulting, a boutique SAP Silver Partner specialising in strategic, large-scale ERP transformation projects. This strategic move will boost UST’s presence in highly complex fields where Taciti has established itself as a leading global provider of bespoke ERP solutions, including Hi-Tech, semiconduct...

6 May 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
GigaDevice Showcases MCU Solutions for Smart Appliances

GigaDevice, a leading semiconductor company specialising in Flash memory, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and analog products, will showcase its latest MCU-based smart appliance solutions for consumer and edge IoT applications at Sensors Converge 2026 At the show, GigaDevice will present a series of live demonstrations with a focus on complete system-level designs for...

5 May 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Intel Strengthens Leadership to Drive AI and Innovation

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) announced two key leadership appointments to strengthen its core product business and advance the company’s innovation agenda. Alex Katouzian Appointed to Lead Client Computing & Physical AI Group Alex Katouzian will join Intel as executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing and Physical AI Group. In this role, Katouzian will ali...

5 May 2026 | Tuesday | 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
AOS Launches SmartClamp DrMOS for AI Power Demands

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide bandgap power devices, power management ICs, and modules, announced the launch of the SmartClamp™ family of protected DrMOS. Designed specifically for the extreme power demands of AI servers, data centers, and high-end graphics...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Lattice Wins AI Excellence Award for Edge AI Solution

Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low-power programmable leader, announced it was named a 2026 AI Excellence Award winner by Business Intelligence Group. Lattice was recognised for its Edge AI solution developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, which delivers a flexible, full-stack platform for real-time data acquisition and processing. The solution combines the Latti...

1 May 2026 | Friday | 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
Ambiq Launches AI Compression for Always-On Devices

Ambiq Micro, Inc. (“Ambiq®”), a technology leader in ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions for edge AI, announced compressionKIT™, a next-generation AI-based codec in beta, proven to substantially reduce the power and memory costs of handling continuous sensor data in wearable and edge devices. As always-on devices—from medical wearables to smart home and indust...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SouthernCrossAI Expands Sovereign AI Access via Equinix Fabric

SouthernCrossAI (SCX), Australia's full-stack sovereign AI infrastructure company, announced it is now providing sovereign AI inferencing capacity to the Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem, making its ASIC-powered inference nodes discoverable and accessible to enterprises, government agencies, and developers across the Equinix ecosystem. Alongside this milestone, SCX confirmed that its national infrastr...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Trio-Tech Raises $10M to Support Growth in AI and Automotive

Trio-Tech International (“Trio-Tech” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT: TRT), a comprehensive provider of semiconductor back-end solutions and a global value-added supplier of electronic equipment, announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct offering with fundamental institutional investors. The offering consisted of 1,052,632 shares of the Company’...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Majestic Labs Launches AI Server to Solve Memory Bottleneck

Majestic Labs unveiled Prometheus, the first AI server designed from the ground up to tackle the memory wall: the most critical obstacle to the advancement and deployment of AI models. Leveraging an innovative architecture and a complete software stack, the server connects orders of magnitude more memory to each processor, at unprecedented bandwidth, achieving performance equivalent to multiple ra...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Kopin and Fabric.AI Partner to Build Optical Links for AI Data Centres

Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays, including MicroLED displays, announced a strategic collaboration with Fabric.AI (NASDAQ: SBLX), a leading developer of fabless semiconductor solutions for AI infrastructure, to develop MicroLED-based optical interconnect technology that will be designed to replace tradit...

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
ROHM Co., Ltd. Launches NFC Wireless Power Chipset for Smart Rings and Compact Wearables

ROHM Co., Ltd. has developed a wireless power supply IC chipset consisting of the receiver (ML7670) and transmitter (ML7671) compatible with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for compact wearables such as smart rings and smart bands. The smart ring market has seen rapid growth in recent years. However, for extremely small ring-shaped devices worn on the finger, wired charging is impr...

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