Samsung Unveils Next-Generation AI Memory Innovations, Including Industry-First V10 BV-NAND and zHBM at FMS 2026

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in advanced memory technology, showcased its latest AI memory innovations at Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026 in Santa Clara, California. With broad expertise spanning DRAM, NAND, enterprise storage and relevant advanced semiconductor technologies, Samsung presented its latest AI memory portfolio and technology roadmap, including a preview of ...

6 Aug 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Marvell Expands AI Memory Infrastructure Portfolio to Boost Token Efficiency and Scalable AI Inference

Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced innovations across its AI memory infrastructure portfolio, advancing its position spanning server-level AI storage, rack-scale CXL memory expansion and pooling, and pod-level optical shared memory. The portfolio helps hyperscalers and cloud providers scale memory more independently from...

6 Aug 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
NEO Semiconductor Launches NEO.AI Memory Platform to Break AI Memory Bottlenecks

NEO Semiconductor, a leading innovator in advanced AI and memory technologies, announced the launch of NEO.AI, its next-generation AI memory platform designed to solve the two most significant memory bottlenecks limiting future artificial intelligence systems: on-chip memory (AI cache) and HBM capacity. As part of the platform launch, the company is officially unveiling X-SRAM, its breakthrou...

6 Aug 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
AI-Powered Analog Simulation to Transform Semiconductor Verification and Accelerate Chip Design

Semicon Leaders Asia Interviews Paul Neil, Chief Operating Officer, Mach42 on AI-Powered Analog Simulation, Faster Verification and the Future of Semiconductor Design   Q. Mach42’s latest funding will support the commercialisation of AI-driven analog circuit simulation technology. How will this investment accelerate your go-to-market strategy, and which semiconductor market segments r...

6 Aug 2026 | Thursday | Interaction
POLYN Introduces Deterministic Responsive Computing to Bridge the Gap Between AI and Real-Time Physical Systems

As artificial intelligence moves beyond cloud computing into autonomous vehicles, industrial automation and intelligent robotics, one challenge continues to limit its deployment in safety-critical environments: delivering AI inference with guaranteed timing, predictable behaviour and ultra-low power consumption. POLYN Technology believes it has identified a solution. The company has released a n...

6 Aug 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Alif Semiconductor Licenses Arm Keil MDK to Accelerate Edge AI Development on Ensemble and Balletto MCUs

Alif Semiconductor announced that Alif has licensed Arm® Keil® MDK to provide Alif's customers with professional software development tools for the Alif Ensemble® and Balletto® families of Arm-based microcontrollers and fusion processors. The agreement gives Alif's customers access to the Keil MDK toolchain for embedded software develop...

5 Aug 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Ceva and Actions Technology Launch Bluetooth HDT Audio SoCs Ahead of Bluetooth 7.0

Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon and software IP for the Smart Edge, and Actions Technology Co., Ltd. (688049.SH), a leading provider of smart wireless audio and Edge AI SoCs of AIoT, announced the introduction of the Actions Technology ATS296X-series Bluetooth® audio series of chips, powered by the Ceva-Waves™ Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT) plat...

5 Aug 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Ambiq Launches Open-Source heliaPROFILER to Accelerate Edge AI Optimisation on Apollo SoCs

Ambiq Micro, Inc. (“Ambiq®”), a technology leader in ultra-low power semiconductor solutions for edge AI, announced the launch of heliaPROFILER™, a new open-source profiling tool that expands its HELIA™ AI ecosystem. Designed for AI developers building on Ambiq Apollo SoCs, heliaPROFILER provides cycle-accurate insight into AI model execution on production har...

5 Aug 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Brewer Science Completes Heraeus Epurio Semiconductor Chemicals Acquisition to Strengthen Advanced Chip Materials Portfolio

Brewer Science, Inc., a global leader in advanced materials and processes for the fabrication of cutting-edge microdevices, announced it has completed its acquisition of the semiconductor chemicals business line of Heraeus Epurio, a recognised technology leader in ultrapure electronic chemicals for the semiconductor industry. The closing is a deliberate act of vertical integration: by bringing the...

5 Aug 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Sandisk and SK hynix Unveil Open HBF Standard to Advance AI Inference Memory Architecture

Sandisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) and SK hynix Inc. announced the release of the HBF™ (High Bandwidth Flash) technical specification through the Open Compute Project (OCP), advancing the workstream to drive HBF standardisation for the AI inference era, just six months after the consortium began work in February. The specification was developed through the HBF technology workstream under OC...

5 Aug 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
IonQ and EPB Launch First U.S. Quantum Communications R&D Centre Connected to a Live Network

IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum platform company, and EPB, Chattanooga’s energy and communications solutions company, announced plans for the Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Centre. This will be the first dedicated next-generation quantum communication research and development (R&D) innovation lab directly connected to a real-world network. “In...

5 Aug 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Marvell to Showcase AI Memory, CXL and PCIe 6.0 Storage Solutions at FMS 2026

Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced it will showcase its comprehensive portfolio of AI memory and storage solutions at FMS 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Centre and Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California. As agentic AI inference scales, memory capacity, bandwidth and connectivity are becoming as critical as compute. Lar...

4 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
KIOXIA Launches GP1 PCIe 6.0 NVMe SSD with 10 Million IOPS to Accelerate AI GPU Memory Expansion

KIOXIA America, Inc. announced the KIOXIA GP1 Series PCIe® 6.0 NVMe™ SSD, the first product in its KIOXIA GP Series of Super High IOPS SSDs optimised for GPU direct access. Building on the KIOXIA GP Series technology introduced earlier this year1, the KIOXIA GP1 Series delivers up to 10 million random read IOPS2 using KIOXIA XL-FLASH™ generation 2 flash mem...

4 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Kioxia Unveils XL1 CXL Memory Expansion Module Powered by XL-FLASH for AI Data Centres at FMS 2026

Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, announced that it will exhibit the KIOXIA XL1 series, a Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) compatible memory expansion module, at the Kioxia booth at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage, taking place August 4 - 6 in Santa Clara, CA. The product features KIOXIA XL-FLASH™, a low-latency and high-performance flash memory techn...

4 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
XCENA Launches MX1 CXL Memory Platform to Eliminate AI Inference Memory Bottlenecks

XCENA, providing memory-centric computing solutions for AI infrastructure, introduced MX1, its production memory lineup built to break through the capacity, utilisation, and data-movement now limiting AI inference at scale. The company is showcasing MX1 at FMS 2026: The Future of Memory and Storage, being held Aug. 4–6 at the Santa Clara Convention Centre. As generative AI drives larger mod...

4 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
IonQ Completes SkyWater Acquisition to Strengthen U.S. Quantum Semiconductor Manufacturing

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum platform company, completed its acquisition of SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the largest exclusively U.S.-based semiconductor foundry. “Acquiring SkyWater crystallises IonQ’s vision to serve as a technology leader, merchant supplier and ecosystem enabler across the entire quantum industry. We are investing in capabilities from...

4 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Linde to Invest $1.8 Billion in US and Taiwan to Expand Semiconductor Gas Supply

Linde (Nasdaq: LIN) announced that it has been awarded a new long-term agreement to supply ultra-high-purity industrial gases to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. The agreement will support the expansion of the customer’s semiconductor manufacturing complex in Phoenix, Arizona. Linde will invest $1 billion to expand its existing on-site industrial gases complex i...

4 Aug 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
AI, Advanced Packaging and EVs to Drive the Next Decade of Thermal Interface Materials Growth

In this interview with Semicon Leaders Asia,  Nikhil Kaitwade, Associate Vice President at Future Market Insights, Inc., discusses how AI infrastructure, advanced semiconductor packaging and electrification are driving demand for thermal interface materials, while highlighting the role of Asia, material innovation and industry collaboration in shaping the market's future.   Which end...

3 Aug 2026 | Monday | Interaction
Montage Technology Begins Trial Production of Industry-First CXL 3.2 Memory Expander Controller for AI Data Centres

Montage Technology announced the industry's first trial production of its CXL® 3.2 Memory eXpander Controller (MXC) chip, designed to address escalating demands for memory expansion and resource pooling in AI, cloud computing, and data centre environments. Leveraging CXL technology, the MXC chip enables customers to build memory infrastructure with higher capacity, improved reso...

3 Aug 2026 | Monday | NEWS
TrendForce Forecasts Diverging Memory Market in 2027 as AI Sustains DRAM Boom While NAND Faces Oversupply

TrendForce's latest research on the memory industry reveals that AI will remain the primary driver of memory demand in 2027. However, market dynamics are expected to diverge between DRAM and NAND Flash. On the DRAM side, continued HBM capacity allocation, robust AI server demand, and growing procurement of CPU memory and HBM are expected to keep supply constrained and prices on an upward trajecto...

3 Aug 2026 | Monday | NEWS