Denton Vacuum Secures Repeat Orders for Data Center Growth

Denton Vacuum LLC, a leading provider of thin film deposition and etch systems, announced that it has secured a new wave of repeat orders from long–standing customers supporting the rapidly expanding U.S. data center ecosystem. The orders span three of the company's flagship thin–film deposition platforms – the Integrity e–beam evaporation system, the Discovery sputtering s...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
MintNeuro and Motif Partner to Advance Brain Implants

MintNeuro, a pioneer of scalable, low-power semiconductor technology for neural implant applications, and Motif Neurotech, a therapeutic brain-computer interface (BCI) company developing miniature implants for mental health, announced a new strategic partnership that will unite MintNeuro's specialised neural interface chip technology with Motif's clinical-stage therapeutic implant platform &n...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Air Products Secures Major Semiconductor Supply Deal

Air Products (NYSE: APD), a world-leading industrial gases company and serving Samsung globally, announced it has been selected by Samsung to supply industrial gases for its new advanced semiconductor fab in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Under the agreement, Air Products will build, own and operate multiple state-of-the-art production facilities and a bulk speciality gas supply...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
JEDEC Advances DDR5 Memory Standards for Higher Bandwidth

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in standards development for the microelectronics industry, announced milestones from its JC-40 and JC-45 Committees for Logic and DRAM Modules: the publication of a new DDR5 multiplexed rank data buffer (MDB) standard; progress toward a multiplexed rank registering clock driver (MRCD) standard; and continued work on the DDR5 multiplexed ...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
New Qubit Design Reduces Noise by Thousands of Times

Quantum bits (qubits) are the fundamental building blocks of quantum information processing. A novel qubit platform invented at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory exhibits noise levels thousands of times lower than those of most traditional qubits. Noise refers to disturbances in the environment that diminish a qubit’s performance. The platform ...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Everspin Secures $40M Defense Contract for MRAM Technology

Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) persistent memory solutions, announced an agreement with a U.S. prime contractor to provide state-of-the-art Toggle MRAM process technology capabilities and engineering services for United States Defense Industrial Base customers. “This work builds...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
MaxLinear Launches 200G/Lane TIA for 1.6T Data Centers

MaxLinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a leading provider of high‑speed interconnect ICs for data centre, metro, and wireless transport networks,  announced the availability of its Washington TIA, a four-lane, 200G/lane transimpedance amplifier designed for 1.6T optical transceiver modules for AI data centre applications. As hyperscale data centres scale bandwidth and reach to support larger AI clu...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
nLIGHT Expands Italy Operations to Meet Defense Demand

nLIGHT, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASR), a leading provider of high-power lasers for mission-critical directed energy, optical sensing, and advanced manufacturing applications, announced plans to expand its existing operations in Torino, Italy, to support increased demand from European and allied customers for locally assembled directed energy solutions. The expanded Torino footprint is expected to enhance n...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
AOS Launches SmartClamp DrMOS for AI Power Demands

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide bandgap power devices, power management ICs, and modules, announced the launch of the SmartClamp™ family of protected DrMOS. Designed specifically for the extreme power demands of AI servers, data centers, and high-end graphics...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Lattice Wins AI Excellence Award for Edge AI Solution

Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low-power programmable leader, announced it was named a 2026 AI Excellence Award winner by Business Intelligence Group. Lattice was recognised for its Edge AI solution developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, which delivers a flexible, full-stack platform for real-time data acquisition and processing. The solution combines the Latti...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
FPT and Shinhan Bank Expand AI-Driven Finance Partnership

Global technology corporation FPT and Shinhan Bank Co., Ltd. (Korea) (“Shinhan Bank”) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand cooperation in digital finance, startup ecosystems, and strategic technologies, with AI as a key enabler to unlock new opportunities across innovation ecosystems in Vietnam and South Korea. The MOU exchange ceremony took place during the V...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Ambiq Launches AI Compression for Always-On Devices

Ambiq Micro, Inc. (“Ambiq®”), a technology leader in ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions for edge AI, announced compressionKIT™, a next-generation AI-based codec in beta, proven to substantially reduce the power and memory costs of handling continuous sensor data in wearable and edge devices. As always-on devices—from medical wearables to smart home and indust...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SouthernCrossAI Expands Sovereign AI Access via Equinix Fabric

SouthernCrossAI (SCX), Australia's full-stack sovereign AI infrastructure company, announced it is now providing sovereign AI inferencing capacity to the Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem, making its ASIC-powered inference nodes discoverable and accessible to enterprises, government agencies, and developers across the Equinix ecosystem. Alongside this milestone, SCX confirmed that its national infrastr...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Trio-Tech Raises $10M to Support Growth in AI and Automotive

Trio-Tech International (“Trio-Tech” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT: TRT), a comprehensive provider of semiconductor back-end solutions and a global value-added supplier of electronic equipment, announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct offering with fundamental institutional investors. The offering consisted of 1,052,632 shares of the Company’...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Majestic Labs Launches AI Server to Solve Memory Bottleneck

Majestic Labs unveiled Prometheus, the first AI server designed from the ground up to tackle the memory wall: the most critical obstacle to the advancement and deployment of AI models. Leveraging an innovative architecture and a complete software stack, the server connects orders of magnitude more memory to each processor, at unprecedented bandwidth, achieving performance equivalent to multiple ra...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Kopin and Fabric.AI Partner to Build Optical Links for AI Data Centres

Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays, including MicroLED displays, announced a strategic collaboration with Fabric.AI (NASDAQ: SBLX), a leading developer of fabless semiconductor solutions for AI infrastructure, to develop MicroLED-based optical interconnect technology that will be designed to replace tradit...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
MIPI Alliance Launches Group to Explore AI-Driven Humanoid Robotics

The MIPI Alliance, an international organisation that develops specifications that standardise wired interfaces for mobile and other connected ecosystems, announced the formation of a Physical AI Birds of a Feather (BoF) group dedicated to exploring upcoming technologies and trends in the physical AI market, with an initial focus on humanoids. The group will examine how MIPI specifi...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Liquid Instruments Raises $50M to Scale AI-Driven Test Solutions

Liquid Instruments, a pioneer in software-defined test solutions, announced the close of its $50 million Series C funding round, co-led by Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a global leader in design, emulation, and test solutions, and the Australian Government’s National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC). In addition to investing, Keysight will enter into a commer...

30 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
OpenLight Secures Fresh Capital as Demand Rises for Silicon Photonics Solutions

OpenLight, the world leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design leveraging its patented heterogeneous silicon photonics process, announced it has raised an additional $50 million in a Series A-1 round, bringing the company’s total funding to $84 million. The financing reflects growing commercial momentum and accelerating customer adoption across AI infra...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
ROHM Co., Ltd. Launches NFC Wireless Power Chipset for Smart Rings and Compact Wearables

ROHM Co., Ltd. has developed a wireless power supply IC chipset consisting of the receiver (ML7670) and transmitter (ML7671) compatible with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for compact wearables such as smart rings and smart bands. The smart ring market has seen rapid growth in recent years. However, for extremely small ring-shaped devices worn on the finger, wired charging is impr...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS