ChipAgents Raises $21 Million Series A to Accelerate AI-Powered Chip Design and Verification Platform

Sales 50x YoY, Deployments at 50 leading semiconductor companies. Former CEOs of Cadence and Mentor Graphics, Plus Former Synopsys CTO, Join Advisory Board. ChipAgents, the agentic AI platform transforming chip design and verification, announced the close of a $21 million Series A funding round, bringing the total fundraise to $24 million to date. This latest round closed with Besseme...

22 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Rigaku Establishes Rigaku Technology Taiwan to Strengthen Regional Innovation and Customer Support Across Semiconductors, Materials, and Life Sciences

Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”) hereby announces the establishment of Rigaku Technology Taiwan Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “RTTW”), a new group company in Taiwan, in 2025. A facility within RTTW, Rigaku Technology Center Taiwan (hereinafter RTC-TW), began full-scale operation in October 2025. RTTW will assum...

22 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Microtest Group Launches Quasar200 and Pulsar600 for Next-Generation Power Device Characterisation

Microtest Group, a leading European manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, has introduced two new turnkey platforms for power device characterisation — Quasar200 and Pulsar600 — developed by its UK subsidiary, ipTEST. The systems are engineered to evaluate how power devices manage high currents and voltages safely and efficiently, combining precision measurement with simplifi...

21 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Geely LEVC L380 Enhances Nighttime Safety with Raytron’s Infrared Night Vision System

Nighttime and low-light driving remain a inherent hazard on the road. According to the NHTSA, the traffic fatality rate is three times higher at night than during the day. The Geely LEVC L380, a premium electric MPV, tackles the risk with a suite of 28 perception sensors. At the heart of its predictive safety is an advanced Infrared Night Vision System (NVS), powered by a high-performance automo...

21 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
NEXT Semiconductor Unveils NXLR1 LiDAR Processor SoC for Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicles

The NXLR1 Lidar Processor Unit (LPU) enables enhanced long range LiDAR perception for automotive ADAS and autonomous vehicles. NEXT Semiconductor Technologies has developed a LiDAR Processor System-On-Chip (SoC) component to address the growing market for LiDAR sensors sourcing data for AI-enhanced autonomous vehicles. The immediate addressable market for LiDAR sensors includes on-orbit sa...

21 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Industrial Tech World Asia 2025 to Convene 3,500 Exhibitors and 160,000 Visitors in Shenzhen

Hosted by RX Greater China and its local partners, Industrial Tech World Asia 2025 (ITWA 2025) will be grandly staged from October 28 to 30 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao'an), China. As one of Asia's influential industrial technology mega event, this year's exhibition brings together cutting-edge technologies and innovative achievements across four advanced ma...

21 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Nexperia China Unit Maintains Normal Operations Despite Dutch Government Seizure of Parent Company

Nexperia’s China division announced that its operations remain fully functional and stable following the Dutch government’s recent seizure of its parent company in the Netherlands. The move, taken under national-security provisions, has drawn global attention to how deeply political oversight now extends into the semiconductor value chain. According to company officials, Nexperia&rs...

20 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
China’s SiCarrier Launches New Chip Design Software to Boost Domestic Semiconductor Independence

China’s SiCarrier Technology Co. Ltd. has unveiled two domestically developed electronic design automation (EDA) software tools through its subsidiary, signalling a significant advancement in the country’s ongoing push for semiconductor self-sufficiency. The launch reflects China’s accelerating efforts to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers amid intensifying glob...

20 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Chip Stocks Race Higher After Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Signals Strong AI-Driven Demand

Asian semiconductor equities climbed sharply on Thursday following TSMC’s unexpectedly strong forecast for the year, as the company pointed to robust demand for high-performance chips used in artificial-intelligence infrastructure. TSMC reported a record quarterly profit and raised its full-year revenue outlook, citing major customers ranging from Nvidia and Apple to global d...

20 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
SuperX Unveils GB300 NVL72 System, a Rack-Scale AI Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra for Trillion-Parameter Model Training

SuperX AI Technology Limited  announced the launch of the SuperX GB300 NVL72 System, a groundbreaking, rack-scale AI supercomputing platform powered by the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip. Designed to conquer the physical and computational limits of training and deploying next-generation trillion-parameter models, the liquid-cooled GB300 System delivers a significant leap in pe...

17 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Qnity™ and SK hynix Forge Strategic Collaboration to Advance Semiconductor Manufacturing with High-Performance CMP Materials

Strategic Collaboration to Support Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing with High-Performance Materials Qnity, DuPont's Electronics business, a premier technology solutions leader across the semiconductor value chain,  announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SK hynix, establishing a strategic long-term agreement for the supply of polishing pads for chemical mechan...

17 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Malema Launches M-3100 Series Clamp-On Ultrasonic Flow Meter for High-Precision Semiconductor Applications

Malema™, part of PSG and Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a leading provider of flow meter technologies for use in industrial and semiconductor applications, today announced the global launch of the new Malema M-3100 Series Clamp-On Ultrasonic Flow Meter. Engineered for precise fluid velocity measurement in liquid-filled closed conduits, the M-3100 Series is a high-performance, non-invasive ultr...

16 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
SemiQon and VTT Win EARTO Award for Cryogenic CMOS Chip Innovation Unlocking Quantum Computing and Space Potential

EARTO, the organisation of the European Research and Technology Organisations, awarded SemiQon and VTT first prize in the "Impact Expected" category on 14 October 2025 in Brussels for a pioneering cryogenic CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) chip innovation. The solution enables the full capacity of advanced CMOS functionalities at cryogenic temperatures, thereby unlocking new possib...

16 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Ceva Expands Semiconductor Leadership with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding to Power Secure Spatial Awareness and Physical AI at the Smart Edge

Ceva strengthens its leadership as a trusted single source for advancing the smart edge, with Bluetooth® 6.0 Channel Sounding for secure spatial awareness enabling on-device intelligence and Physical AI  As industries demand greater positioning accuracy, security, and reliability for wireless connectivity, Bluetooth® 6.0 emerges as a critical enabler for next-generation high perfor...

16 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
MediaTek and NVIDIA Extend Partnership to Power a New Era of Personal AI Supercomputing

Continues MediaTek's long history of collaboration with NVIDIA to advance AI innovation from supercomputers to vehicles, IoT devices, data center solutions, and beyond  MediaTek has teamed with NVIDIA on the design of the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip in NVIDIA DGX Spark, a personal AI supercomputer that allows developers to prototype, fine-tune, and inference large AI models on the ...

16 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Semiconductor Research Corporation Unveils MAPT Roadmap 2.0 to Accelerate U.S. Semiconductor Innovation and Workforce Growth

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) is proud to announce the release of the Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MAPT) Roadmap 2.0, a comprehensive update to the industry’s first 3D semiconductor roadmap. This second edition reflects the contributions of over 370 experts from 132 organizations across industry, academia, and government, and builds upon the momentum of ...

15 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
indie Semiconductor Launches Visible GaN DFB Laser to Power Quantum, Automotive LiDAR, and Industrial Photonics

indie (Nasdaq: INDI), an automotive solutions innovator, has released a new Visible Distributed Feedback (DFB) gallium nitride-based (GaN) laser diode from its Photonics BU product line, enabling next-generation quantum, a wide range of automotive applications, including LiDAR and sensing, and Industrial Raman applications with ultra-stable, sub-MHz linewidths at wavelengths from the near-UV (37...

15 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Johnson Controls Expands Silent-Aire Platform with Scalable CDU Solutions for AI-Driven Data Centres in Asia Pacific

Silent-Aire CDUs offer scalable cooling from 500kW to 10MW for high-density data centres in Asia Pacific Flexible, space-saving design with built-in redundancy helps achieve maximum availability and rapid deployment in dense urban markets like Singapore Johnson Controls full thermal portfolio can cut non-IT energy use by up to 50%, boosting efficiency even in warm-climate data cent...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Getac Launches S510AD Rugged Copilot+ PC Powered by AMD Ryzen™ AI for Next-Generation Edge Intelligence

The new S510AD joins the B360 Plus, F120 and next generation UX10 in Getac's rapidly growing lineup of Copilot+ PCs. Powered by AMD Ryzen™ AI technology, the S510AD delivers strong on-device AI performance, supporting faster insights and reducing reliance on cloud connectivity where applications allow. The S510AD is ideally suited to professionals working in industries including a...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
WiMi Explores Quantum Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks to Advance AI Efficiency and Accuracy

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that active exploration is underway in the field of Quantum Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks (QDCNN) technology. This technology is expected to break through the limitations of traditional convolutional neural networks in handling complex d...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS