Nvidia Partnership with Groq Signals Shift Toward Specialized AI Accelerators

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...

2 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Bangladesh Launches National Semiconductor Research Centre to Build Future-Ready Chip Ecosystem

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...

2 Jan 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Tower Semiconductor and Switch Semiconductor Introduce High-Efficiency 12V POL Buck Regulator

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...

1 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
MICROIP Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success for NFC Transceiver IC

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...

1 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Altium Appoints Don Cantow as General Manager

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...

1 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
FemtoAI Reports Strong Growth and Momentum in 2025

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 ...

1 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
IRS Sets 2026 Business Mileage Rate at 72.5 Cents Per Mile

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...

1 Jan 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Mouser Now Shipping Infineon PSOC Edge Machine Learning MCUs

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...

31 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
U.S. Approves Limited Chip Equipment Exports to China for 2026

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...

31 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm Semiconductors

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...

31 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Nvidia Makes $5 Billion Strategic Equity Investment in Intel

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...

31 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Nova Appoints Rami Hadar to Board of Directors

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...

30 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Valens Semiconductor Highlights Sustainability Progress in 2024 ESG Report

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...

30 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
AXT Announces Pricing of Underwritten Public Offering

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...

30 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Immersion Receives Nasdaq Notice Related to Delayed Financial Filings

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...

30 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Lithography Emerges as the Strategic Engine of the Next Semiconductor Growth Cycle

  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...

29 Dec 2025 | Monday | NEWS
AI Hardware Enters a Supercycle as Global Market Races Toward USD 620 Billion by 2035

  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...

29 Dec 2025 | Monday | NEWS
From Data Centers to Self-Driving Cars: AI Chips Anchor the Next Wave of Digital Transformation

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...

29 Dec 2025 | Monday | NEWS
MemryX Introduces MX4 Accelerator Roadmap Targeting Data Center AI Inference

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...

29 Dec 2025 | Monday | NEWS
MediaTek and DENSO Join Forces to Develop Advanced Automotive SoC Platform

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...

29 Dec 2025 | Monday | NEWS