Nvidia Partnership With Groq Signals Strategic Shift In AI Accelerator DesignNvidia has entered into a technology licensing agreement with AI chip specialist Groq, marking a notable development in how leading semiconductor players are approaching custom AI accelerator design and performance optimisation. The agreement enables Groq to leverage selected Nvidia technologies to enhance its own AI pro...
Bangladesh Establishes National Semiconductor Research Centre To Build Future Ready Chip Ecosystem. Bangladesh has taken a decisive step towards entering the global semiconductor value chain with the launch of the Centre for Research and Excellence in Semiconductor Technology CREST, a national level initiative aimed at strengthening domestic research, innovation and talent development in advanced...
Tower Semiconductor, a leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, and Switch Semiconductor, a fabless power management company, announced the SW2001, a high-efficiency, monolithic 12-V Point-of-Load (POL) buck regulator designed on Tower’s industry-leading 65nm BCD platform. The SW2001 targets demanding applications including servers, AI compute systems, cloud stora...
MICROIP, a provider of specialized ASIC design services and AI solutions, announced the successful silicon validation of its internally developed NFC transceiver IC. Achieving "First-Pass Silicon Success" with a 99% functional yield, this milestone serves as a definitive proof point of the company's advanced ASIC design capabilities, demonstrating its ability to execute complex...
Altium, a global leader in electronics design systems, announced the appointment of Don Cantow as General Manager of Altium. In his role as General Manager, Mr. Cantow will be central to accelerating Altium’s adoption as an industry platform, while safeguarding its openness and accessibility across the global electronics ecosystem, spanning semiconductor companies and the broader EDA and EC...
Femto AI, the pioneer of ultra-efficient edge AI computing, announced a year of unprecedented momentum and transformative growth in 2025. Key milestones include shipping over 100,000 units of its groundbreaking Sparse Processing Unit (SPU) AI accelerator, successfully closing a new funding round, launching a rapidly growing developer community, and strategically expanding its executive leadership ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the 2026 standard mileage rate for business use of 72.5 cents. This rate is calculated using data from Motus, the leader in vehicle reimbursement, risk mitigation and productivity solutions for companies whose employees drive for work.1 With data from a broad pool of drivers across diverse industries, locations, and company types, Motus cap...
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components™, the authorized global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, is now shipping the new PSOC™ Edge machine learning microcontrollers (MCUs) from Infineon Technologie...
The United States government has approved the shipment of selected semiconductor manufacturing tools to China for 2026, enabling equipment exports linked to operations by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The decision marks an important regulatory development at a time when semiconductor supply chains have been navigating heightened scrutiny, export controls and geopolitical uncertainty. Industry...
TSMC has commenced mass production of its 2 nanometre semiconductor technology in the fourth quarter of 2025, reinforcing its leadership at the forefront of advanced logic manufacturing. The transition to volume production at 2nm represents a decisive step forward for the global semiconductor industry. The new process technology delivers meaningful gains in performance, power efficiency and trans...
Nvidia has completed a strategic $5 billion equity investment in Intel Corporation, marking a significant moment for the global semiconductor industry as demand for high performance computing continues to intensify. The transaction underscores Nvidia’s intent to deepen engagement across the semiconductor value chain at a time when AI workloads, data centre expansion and next generation comp...
Nova announced the appointment of Rami Hadar to its Board of Directors. Hadar is a highly accomplished executive with over 25 years of executive and investment experience in the high-tech industry. Hadar is a Managing Partner at Claridge Israel, a leading growth fund focused on innovative Israeli technology companies. He brings extensive board and executive experience across prominent tech f...
Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), a leader in high-performance connectivity, released its fourth annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report. The 2024 Report details the Company's progress, commitment, and approach as it looks to advancing a sustainable future. Valens Semiconductor's mission is to develop leading-edge products that enable robust, ultra-high-performance wired con...
AXT, Inc, a leading manufacturer of compound semiconductor wafer substrates, announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 7,098,492 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $12.25 per share. The gross proceeds from the offering to the Company are expected to be approximately $87 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses. I...
Immersion Corporation a leading provider of technologies for haptics, announced that it received a delinquency compliance alert notice (the “10-Q Nasdaq Notification Letter”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying the Company that it did not timely file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended (th...
The global lithography equipment market is set for strong long-term growth, with industry projections indicating it could more than double in value by 2035, driven by rising demand for smaller, faster, and more complex semiconductor devices. Expanding applications in artificial intelligence, 5G, and the Internet of Things are accelerating the need for advanced chipmaking technologies, rein...
The global AI hardware market is entering a period of unprecedented expansion as artificial intelligence applications move from experimental use cases to large-scale, mission-critical deployments across industries. Market projections indicate the sector could grow from just over USD 30 billion today to more than USD 620 billion by 2035, reflecting the accelerating demand for computing infr...
The global artificial intelligence (AI) chip market is entering a phase of unprecedented expansion, with projections indicating growth from USD 31.6 billion in 2025 to USD 846.8 billion by 2035, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34.84%. The surge highlights the critical role of AI silicon in powering digital transformation across industries worldwide. Rising enterprise adopti...
MemryX Inc., a company delivering production AI inference acceleration, announced its strategic roadmap for the MX4. The next-generation accelerator is engineered to scale the company's "at-memory" dataflow architecture from edge deployments into the data center, leveraging 3D hybrid-bonded memory to eliminate the industry's most pressing bottleneck: the "memory wall." MemryX is cu...
MediaTek, a global leader in innovative semiconductor solutions, announced that it is working closely with DENSO, one of the world's leading automotive technology providers, to develop a custom automotive System-on-Chip (SoC) solution tailored for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and cockpit systems. This joint effort merges DENSO's automotive-grade safety expertise and deep vehicle integ...