STARTRADER announced the launch of SK Hynix Inc. (SKHY) as a US Stock CFD on its trading platform. Moving swiftly following SK Hynix's recent US listing, which raised approximately $26.5 billion, STARTRADER is ensuring clients can engage with this name at the earliest opportunity. This is precisely the type of occasion STARTRADER builds its product strategy around. As significant names enter...
MetaOptics Ltd (Catalist: 9MT) ("MetaOptics" or the "Company," and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group"), announced that it has agreed to deploy its key metalens Direct Laser Writer ("DLW") system at the University of Arizona's Centre of Semiconductor Manufacturing (the "University"). The agreement marks a critical step in advancing its U.S. expansion strategy and its collaborativ...
Wistron Corporation ("Wistron") celebrated the grand opening of its D1 AI smart facility in Fort Worth, Texas, the site where the first NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip was built and mass-produced in the United States. The US$ 700 million facility, spanning approximately 324,000 square feet, was officially unveiled during a ceremony led by Wistron Chairman Simon Lin and NVIDI...
FemtoAI, a leading AI inference platform and creator of the Sparse Processing Unit (SPU), announced 5X growth in 1H 2026, driven by engagements with Samsung and Marshall, new customer use cases and increased developer adoption. The demand for AI inference globally continues to outpace supply, and femtoAI is filling a gap. With 200K+ chips already deployed, and customers across data centre, enterp...
Acrab, a technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure for the next generation of intelligent systems, unveiled GΞLIX 1, its first-generation edge AI system-on-chip (SoC), together with Agent Box, a personal edge AI system powered by the company's full-stack computing platform. As AI moves from generating answers to completing tasks, agents increasingly need to understand conte...
AXT, Inc. (NasdaqGS: AXTI), a leading manufacturer of compound semiconductor wafer substrates, announced that Jia-Bin Duh has been appointed to the AXT Board of Directors, effective July 16, 2026. The AXT Board expanded to six directors from the previous number of five. Duh brings more than 30 years of senior executive leadership and investor experience across the technology and consumer sectors,...
Siemens announced that it has agreed to acquire Defacto Technologies, a privately held EDA software company active in the register-transfer level (RTL) design field focused on automated SoC design creation and integration. The acquisition further expands Siemens' EDA portfolio with capabilities that help customers manage growing SoC complexity through automated SoC design creation, earlier impleme...
ChipAgents, a leader in agentic AI for semiconductor engineering, announced that Ambiq, a leader in ultra-low-power Edge AI semiconductor solutions, has expanded deployment of the ChipAgents platform following a successful evaluation. The expanded scope reflects the growing adoption of AI-native engineering tools as semiconductor companies seek new approaches to developing increasingly sophisticat...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation have signed a definitive agreement to establish a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the automation and digital transformation of manufacturing operations through advanced AI-powered vision technologies. As part of the collaboration, the two companies will create a new joint venture, Advanced Vision Solutions Co...
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), announced a strategic collaboration to develop Fortinet Security Processor 6 (SP6). Expanding a long-standing relationship between the two companies, this collaboration combines Fortinet’s proprietary, purpose-built security processor expertise with Intel’s advanced design, packaging, and manufacturing capabilities to accele...
Gradiant, a global leader in advanced water and wastewater solutions, announced the successful completion of its work for a major new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Dresden, strengthening Europe’s capacity to produce the technologies powering an increasingly digital and electrified world. Representing an investment of approximately €5 billion, the new facility is one of German...
Quest Global, the largest private independent pure-play engineering services company, has been recognised as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens® Semiconductor Industry Services and Solutions 2026 Study for the U.S. market. The company secured Leader positions in Design, Test and Verification Services and Manufacturing and Engineering Services, r...
Photon Queue, a quantum technology company building high-efficiency quantum memories for next-generation quantum computing systems, announced the close of its oversubscribed seed funding round of $4 million, led by Playground Global. The seed round builds on Photon Queue’s early customer traction, including contracts with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Maryland that valid...
Accelsius, the leader in two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for AI and high-performance computing, announced results from independent third-party benchmark testing demonstrating that two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling better supports NVIDIA’s goal of enabling global free cooling with warm facility-water temperatures. The results show that single-phase performance at 45&...
Aeonsemi, a leader in mixed-signal and DSP connectivity ICs, announced LumaReach™, the industry’s first commercially available 10 Gbps Ethernet-over-coax network controller IC. Developed as a new fibre-extension technology, LumaReach™ delivers fibre-class latency and bandwidth over existing RG6 and RG59 coaxial cabling already installed in approximately 150 million homes acr...
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, has opened its new 30,000-square-foot state-of-the-art, vertically integrated research and microgravity payload development facility in Georgetown, Indiana. The facility will serve as a global hub supporting accelerated demand as the company continues to expand its leadership in space-enabled research, deve...
Mach42, an AI-driven company developing technology to accelerate analog circuit simulation for semiconductor design, has closed a £7m pre-series A funding round. The round was led by IP Group plc, the most active UK-based early-stage science and technology investor, alongside existing investors BGF and Foresight Group. The funding will enable Mach42 to scale its engineering and business dev...
Air Products (NYSE: APD), a world-leading industrial gases company, announced Air Products San Fu has been awarded a long-term agreement to support a semiconductor manufacturer's expansion in Taiwan. The project will supply multiple new semiconductor fabs and back-end packaging facilities, supporting growing demand driven by artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Air Product...
Alexander Simin, COO of POLYN Technology, speaks exclusively with Semicon Leaders Asia about the company's partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France, the commercialisation of its neuromorphic AI technology, and its vision for advancing edge AI, automotive innovation and the future of Physical AI. Q1. How does this partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France strengthen POLYN’s commercial...
Infinity.inc (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an early-stage AI infrastructure research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced it has raised $15 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. The round included significant participation from Touring Capital, along with Principal VC, executives at major chip...