SK keyfoundry Develops SiC Planar MOSFET Process Platform

SK KeyFoundry, an 8-inch pure-play foundry in Korea, announced that it has recently completed the development of its SiC (Silicon Carbide) Planar MOSFET process platform, which is gaining traction in the next-generation compound power semiconductor market. The company also revealed that it has secured an order for the development of a 1200V SiC MOSFET product from a new customer, marking its full-...

13 Mar 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Amber Semiconductor Raises $30m Series C to Advance AI Data Centre Power Technology

Amber Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company pioneering the next generation power management for AI data centres, announced the initial closing of its $30 million Series C financing round from new and existing investors.   The funding will be used to scale product development, expand customer engagements, and accelerate the commercialisation of Amber's breakthrough vertical powe...

13 Mar 2026 | Friday | NEWS
IBM and Lam Research Partner on Sub-1nm Logic Scaling

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) today announced a collaboration aimed at developing new processes and materials to support sub-1nm logic scaling. Building on a long record of successful partnerships, the new agreement will focus on the joint development of novel materials, fabrication processes, and high-NA EUV lithography processes to advance IBM's logic scaling ro...

12 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Gateworks Corporation Expands Catalina SBC Family with NXP Semiconductors i.MX 95 Processor

Gateworks Corporation, a leader in industrial embedded technology, announced the expansion of its Catalina Single Board Computer (SBC) family. Engineered around the high-performance NXP® Semiconductors i.MX 95 applications processor, the Catalina platform is designed to bring transformative Edge AI, machine vision and autonomous capabilities to the harshest industrial environments. NXP w...

12 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Nanopower Semiconductor Begins Volume Production of nPZero Power-Saving IC

Nanopower Semiconductor, a European fabless semiconductor manufacturer, announces that its award-winning nPZero power-saving integrated circuit (PSIC) is now in volume production, enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to move from evaluation to high-volume deployment in power-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) products. Nanopower's nPZero is a power-saving integrated circuit (PSIC) de...

12 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Nordic Semiconductor Launches Fuel Gauge v2.0 for IoT Battery Management

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...

12 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
ISLE 2026 Highlights Nanchang’s Optoelectronic Industry Cluster

ISLE 2026, Asia's largest exhibition for smart display and integrated systems, held in Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Centre (Shenzhen World) from March 5-7, demonstrated more than thousands of new products and solutions for diverse application scenarios in display and AV integration. In this year's ISLE, the Nanchang Optoelectronic Industry Cluster made a collective appearance u...

12 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Texas Instruments Introduces Edge AI Microcontrollers with Integrated NPU

Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) introduced two new microcontroller (MCU) families with edge artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, supporting the company's commitment to enabling edge AI across its entire embedded processing portfolio. The MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex MCUs integrate TI's TinyEngine neural processing unit (NPU), a dedicated hardware accelerator for MCUs that optimises deep l...

12 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Semtech Corporation, Digital Barriers Partner on AI Video Compression for Cellular Surveillance

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...

11 Mar 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Everspin Technologies Qualifies 64Mb xSPI STT-MRAM for High-Reliability Applications

Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) persistent memory solutions, announced continued progress across its high-reliability (HR) PERSYST xSPI STT-MRAM portfolio, including the completion of full production qualification for its 64Mb MRAM and the expansion of the family to a new 256M...

6 Mar 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Rambus Inc. Launches Industry-Leading HBM4E Memory Controller IP for AI Accelerators

Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, announced the industry’s leading HBM4E Memory Controller IP, extending its market leadership in HBM IP. This new solution delivers breakthrough performance with advanced reliability features, enabling designers to address the demanding memory bandwidth requirements of next-gen...

6 Mar 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Panmnesia and Openchip Sign AI Infrastructure Collaboration MOU at Mobile World Congress 2026

Panmnesia, a provider of advanced link solutions, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Openchip, a European AI accelerator design company, at MWC26 in Barcelona. The agreement focuses on technical collaboration related to AI/HPC infrastructure. The agreement marks a step toward technical collaboration aimed at enhancing performance, scalability, and resource effic...

6 Mar 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Noble Machines Inc. Emerges from Stealth with First Industrial Robot Deployment to Fortune Global 500 Customer

Noble Machines Inc., formerly Under Control Robotics, announced its emergence from stealth with its first deployment of industrial general-purpose robots shipped to a Fortune Global 500 customer within 18 months of the company's launch. Founded in 2024 by a team of engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech, Noble Machines operates on the belief that AI must prove itself in real industrial op...

5 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Semtech Corporation Acquires HieFo Corporation to Strengthen AI Optical Connectivity Portfolio

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading provider of high-performance semiconductor, Internet of Things (IoT) systems and cloud connectivity service solutions, announced the acquisition of HieFo Corporation (HieFo), a California-based private manufacturer of high-efficiency Indium Phosphide (InP) optoelectronic devices for optical transceivers used across data center interconnects (DCI) ...

5 Mar 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
MetaOptics Develops Compact Tunable Metalens Module for 3D Fingerprint Biometrics

MetaOptics Ltd (Catalist: 9MT) ("MetaOptics" or the "Company", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") has announced plans to develop a compact optical module for 3D non-contact fingerprint biometrics, designed to support future smartphone integration possibilities. The project enhances the Company's existing 3D sensing technology by reducing optical stack size and incorporating elec...

3 Mar 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
SambaNova Survey Highlights Rising Public Concern Over AI Energy Demand

SambaNova, builders of the fastest chip for agentic AI, released research highlighting the mounting concerns over the energy demands of AI data centres and the impact on households and national power grids. As AI deployment accelerates, business leaders and consumers are aware that legacy, GPU-based infrastructure is not built for the efficiency and scale required in a power‑constrained wor...

3 Mar 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
MaxLinear Showcases Sierra SoC for Next-Generation Open RAN Radios at MWC 2026

MaxLinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a leading provider of wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that it will demonstrate its newest advancements in RAN radio technologies at MWC Barcelona 2026. Attendees visiting meeting room 2L8MR in Hall 2 will see demonstrations of how MaxLinear’s Sierra single-chip radio SoC helps OEMs develop new innovative Open RAN Radio Units (O-RUs) addressing...

2 Mar 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Semtech Corporation Expands Smart Home Chip Strategy with Trident IoT Deal

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading provider of high-performance semiconductor, Internet of Things (IoT) systems and cloud connectivity service solutions, announced a definitive agreement with Trident IoT that positions Semtech’s LoRa Plus™ platform as the connectivity foundation for next-generation multi-protocol smart home and security solutions. With this agreeme...

27 Feb 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation Launches 135°C Photorelays for Automotive Chip Testing

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has launched four voltage-driven photorelays, “TLP3407SRB,” “TLP3412SRB,“ ”TLP3412SRHB,“ and “TLP3412SRLB” housed in the small S-VSON4T package. The new photorelays deliver a maximum operating temperature rating of 135°C for equipment that operates at high temperatures. Volume ...

27 Feb 2026 | Friday | NEWS
First Solar, Inc. Secures Perovskite Patent License from Oxford Photovoltaics Limited

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) (“First Solar” or “the Company”) announced a patent licensing agreement that gives it access to existing issued patents and currently pending patent applications of Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (“Oxford PV”) The non-exclusive license paves the way for First Solar, the largest solar manufacturer in the Western Hemisphere and the ...

27 Feb 2026 | Friday | NEWS