• Saturday | 18 July 2026
Viettel to Invest US$1.3 Billion in Hanoi Semiconductor Fab as Vietnam Attracts US$588 Million in High-Tech Investment

Vietnam's capital is strengthening its position as a regional technology hub after Viettel committed US$1.3 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility, a move that has helped Hanoi attract US$588 million in high-tech investment during the first half of the year. The planned chip manufacturing complex forms part of Vietnam's broader strategy to develop a domestic semiconductor industr...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Harel Increases Stake in Camtek as AI Chip Manufacturing Drives Demand for Semiconductor Inspection Equipment

Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services has expanded its holding in semiconductor inspection equipment supplier Camtek, reinforcing institutional confidence in the company's long-term growth prospects amid rising demand for advanced chip manufacturing technologies. According to a recent regulatory filing, Harel increased its stake by 38.2% during the first quarter, acquiring an addit...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
UMC Begins Mass Production of Silicon Photonics Wafers in Singapore for AI Data Centres and Optical Networking

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has started commercial production of silicon photonics wafers at its 300 mm manufacturing facility in Singapore, strengthening its capabilities in optical semiconductor technologies as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and high-speed data communications continues to rise. The milestone follows a joint development programme with Singap...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
LG Chem Begins Mass Production of Semiconductor Strippers for Amkor Technology, Expanding Chip Materials Business

LG Chem (KRX: 051910) announced that it has begun mass production and supply of semiconductor strippers to Amkor Technology, marking the company’s first entry into the semiconductor stripper market and accelerating its strategy to expand its semiconductor materials business. Amkor Technology is a global leader in outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT), providing semiconducto...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB and Advanced Packaging Design, Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell

Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) introduced the AuraStack™ AI Super Agent on Cadence® Allegro® AI Studio, the world’s first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging design, taking designers from system planning to final product in a single AI-native environment. The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA CUDA-X, coor...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
ATLANT 3D Secures AI Hyperscaler Order for NANOFABRICATOR LITE to Accelerate AI-Driven Materials Discovery

ATLANT 3D announced that it has secured an order from a leading global AI hyperscaler for its NANOFABRICATOR® LITE platform. The system will support the customer's AI-driven materials discovery lab, enabling rapid experimental fabrication and validation of AI-generated materials as well as creating experimental data for a recursive innovation process. The order reflects the growing industry de...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Hedge Funds Increase Semiconductor Exposure as AI Investment Momentum Drives Market Positioning, Says Hazeltree

The first half of 2026 was defined by a tale of two stories. An AI-infrastructure investment cycle kept broadening and intensifying as positioning in AI-linked technology and hardware names grew steadily more crowded and consensus-driven from January through June, while markets had to absorb a serious geopolitical shock with an escalating Middle East conflict disrupting the transit of oil and push...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Whalechip Deploys ChipAgents AI Platform to Accelerate Semiconductor Chip Debugging

ChipAgents, the category leader for Agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, announced that Whalechip has successfully deployed ChipAgents' AI-powered platform, which immediately paid dividends during a recent critical chip debugging effort. Using ChipAgents, the Whalechip engineering team was able to rapidly identify critical design issues in a new chip and significantly reduce ...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Inturai Ventures and Chipforge Partner to Develop FPGA-Based Edge AI Platform for Autonomous Drone Swarms

Inturai Ventures Corp. (the "Company") (CSE: URAI) (OTC: URAIF) (FSE: 3QG0) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") with Chipforge, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pathkey Limited ("Pathkey") (ASX: PKY), an Australian public-listed semiconductor and technology group, to jointly develop drone swarm command and control on an edge-computing plat...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Direxion Launches 2X Leveraged ETF Tracking SK hynix to Expand AI Semiconductor Investment Portfolio

Direxion, a provider of exchange-traded funds designed for active and tactical investors, has expanded its semiconductor investment portfolio with the launch of the Direxion Daily SK Hynix Bull 2X ETF (SKHL). The new fund is designed to provide investors with leveraged exposure to one of the world's leading memory chip manufacturers, enabling traders to capitalise on daily price ...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Thermal Interface Materials Market to Reach USD 6.2 Billion by 2036 as AI and Semiconductor Demand Accelerates

The global market for thermal interface materials (TIMs) is forecast to grow from USD 3.8 billion in 2026 to USD 6.2 billion by 2036, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1%, according to a recent market study by Future Market Insights. The report attributes the market's expansion to rising demand for advanced thermal management technologies across the electronics, semiconductor...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
India Approves $14.8 Billion Semiconductor Mission 2.0 to Expand Domestic Chip Ecosystem

The Union Cabinet has approved the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0, allocating ₹1.27 lakh crore ($14.8 Billion)  to accelerate the country's semiconductor manufacturing ambitions and strengthen its position in the global electronics supply chain. The programme represents the next phase of India's strategy to build a comprehensive semiconductor ecosystem, spanning chip design, manufact...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Kalshi Launches GPU Compute Forward Curves for AI Infrastructure Market

Kalshi, the next-generation financial exchange, launched compute forward curves, a new pricing benchmark that shows the implied future price of renting GPU capacity. Kalshi’s forward curves are live now for Nvidia B200, H200, and A100 chips. A forward curve is a graphical representation of the market’s estimate of future prices. Kalshi’s curves measure the implied future price o...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Diodes to Acquire ElevATE Semiconductor in US$250 Million Deal

Presidio Investors (“Presidio”), a lower middle market private equity firm, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell ElevATE Semiconductor, Inc. (“ElevATE”) to Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) in an all-cash transaction valued at $250 million. ElevATE, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a leading fabless designer of low-power, high-density...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
SILITH and UMC Begin Mass Production of Silicon Photonics Chips for AI Networks

SILITH Technology, a silicon photonics fabless company, and United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) (“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, announced the first mass-production wafer delivery of photonic ICs from UMC’s Singapore fab, advancing the partnership between the two companies to scale next-generation silicon photonics manufacturing. The collab...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Toshiba Expands Digital Isolator Portfolio for Industrial Automation Applications

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has expanded its DCL34xx0B series of quad-channel standard digital isolators for industrial equipment with four new products. All products in the series deliver low current consumption of 0.2mA per channel (typ.)[1], are housed in a small SSOP16 package, and support mid-speed communications[2]. The new products are “DCL34...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Rochester Electronics and Qorvo Expand Global Semiconductor Distribution Partnership

Rochester Electronics, LLC, a premier continuous source of authorised semiconductors, and Qorvo®, a leading global provider of connectivity and power solutions, announced the completion of a worldwide distribution agreement. This collaboration significantly expands access to Qorvo’s RF and power high-performance semiconductor solutions for customers worldwide, with a particular emphasis ...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
TYLsemi Raises US$43 Million to Advance Chiplet Platform for AI Infrastructure

TYLsemiTM emerged from stealth and announced the closing of an oversubscribed $43 million early-stage funding round to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure. TYLsemi is the first chiplet platform company to deliver a full portfolio across IO, power delivery, and memory paired with a chiplet-based custom silicon design, integration and supply-chain ownership. This standards-based, pr...

15 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Bosch Secures US CHIPS Funding to Accelerate Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Production

Bosch, a leading provider of technology and services and the largest automotive supplier in the world according to external rankings, announced a definitive agreement with the Trump Administration for up to $225 million in direct funding from the Department of Commerce's CHIPS Program Office to support the up to $2 billion Bosch is investing to transform its Roseville, California site for the prod...

14 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
South Korea’s Semiconductor Equipment Boom Puts Pressure on Materials Suppliers

South Korea's semiconductor industry is experiencing robust growth in equipment orders as chipmakers accelerate investment in advanced manufacturing capacity, although the rapid expansion is placing increasing pressure on suppliers of semiconductor materials and components. Demand for semiconductor manufacturing equipment continues to be driven by investments in artificial intelligence, high-band...

14 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS

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