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2025 Marked the Year of Silicon Sovereignty in Asia’s Semiconductor Power Shift

TSMC’s new Global R&D Center in Taiwan reflects Asia’s drive to maintain cutting-edge chip capabilities on home soil. Semiconductor technology has become not just an industry, but an instrument of national power. Semiconductors in 2025 are not merely about cranking out more chips – they have become closely tied to national sovereignty and strategy. Nowhere is this shift more...

29 Dec 2025 | Monday | Analysis
Quantum Computing Inc. to Acquire Luminar Semiconductor Unit for $110M in Cash

Luminar Technologies, Inc. a leading global technology company, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Quantum Computing Inc. (“QCi”) pursuant to which QCi will acquire Luminar Semiconductor, Inc. (“LSI”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Luminar, in an all-cash transaction valued at $110 million. QCi is an integrated photonics and quantum optics technology com...

17 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Taiwan Strengthens Semiconductor Leadership While Opening Doors to Global Capital

  Taiwan is reinforcing its position at the centre of the global semiconductor industry, combining deep rooted technological expertise with a renewed openness to foreign investment as demand for advanced chips continues to accelerate worldwide. The island’s semiconductor ecosystem is entering a new phase of expansion, marked by sustained capital inflows, capacity upgra...

16 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
United States Accelerates Structural Reset of Semiconductor Industry to Secure Long-Term Leadership

  United States is pressing ahead with a comprehensive restructuring of its semiconductor industry, signalling a decisive shift towards a more resilient, competitive and strategically aligned national chip ecosystem. The ongoing transformation reflects a clear policy direction to reduce structural vulnerabilities exposed by recent global disruptions. By rebalancing supply chains and strengt...

16 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
BrainChip Secures $25M to Advance Akida Neuromorphic AI Platform and Scale Product Portfolio

-BrainChip Holdings Ltd. (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low-power, fully digital, event-based neuromorphic AI, secured a capital raise of $25 million to fuel the development and commercialization of its neuromorphic AI technology and expansion of its product offerings in chips and modules. BrainChip is expanding its product portfolio t...

12 Dec 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Nordic Semiconductor Launches nRF9151 SMA Development Kit for Next-Gen Cellular IoT and Satellite Connectivity

Nordic Semiconductor, a global leader in low-power wireless connectivity solutions, announces the launch of the nRF9151 SMA Development Kit (DK), a specialized DK for RF engineers developing cellular IoT, DECT NR+, and Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) applications. Alongside the hardware release, Nordic has launched new modem firmware that adds NTN (satellite) support to the nRF9151 module – ...

12 Dec 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Bruker Secures $25M in Advanced NMR and EPR System Orders from Leading European Research Institutes

-Bruker Corporation  announced several significant European orders for high-performance magnetic resonance systems from three leading research institutions in France and Germany: In the summer, École Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL) in Paris, France ordered a novel NMR relaxometry system to be used alongside its recently acquired 900 MHz NMR spectrometer. This unique capability w...

11 Dec 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Tachyum begins action to defend TPU trademark against Google filing

-Tachyum® announced that it is beginning to take steps to defend the use of its registered TPU® trademark. Tachyum initially applied for trademark status in September 2015 and has held the rights to TPU (for its AI Tachyum Processing Unit) since October 2020. Google recently filed for similar trademark protection of Google TPU for its Tensor Processing Unit on November 21st of this ...

10 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
UMC Secures Imec Silicon Photonics Technology To Accelerate 12 Inch Optical Chip Platform

  United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303)(“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, announced a licensing agreement with imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in advanced semiconductor technologies, for the transfer of imec’s iSiPP300 silicon photonics process, featuring co-packaged optics (CPO) compatibility, to accelerate UMC’s ...

9 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
HKUST and SEMI Unite Global Semiconductor Leaders at Inaugural 2025 SIIAS Summit

Uniting Global Semiconductor Leaders to Drive Industry Innovation and Growth  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and SEMI successfully concluded the inaugural 2025 Semiconductor Innovation and Intelligent Application Summit (SIIAS). As a prelude to the University's 35th anniversary celebrations and supported by the HKSAR Government, the landmark event makes its debu...

8 Dec 2025 | Monday | NEWS
NVIDIA and Synopsys Form Multi-Year Strategic Partnership to Accelerate AI-Driven Engineering; NVIDIA Invests $2B in Synopsys

Multi-year collaboration spans NVIDIA CUDA accelerated computing, agentic and physical AI, and Omniverse digital twins to achieve simulation speed and scale previously unattainable through traditional CPU computing – opening new market opportunities across engineering. To further adoption of GPU-accelerated engineering solutions, the companies will collaborate in engineering and marketi...

3 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Fujifilm Completes New Building to Boost Its Semiconductor Materials Business

Fujifilm has announced the completion of a new state-of-the-art building at its Shizuoka site in Japan, marking a significant expansion of its semiconductor materials operations. The facility is designed to strengthen the company’s research, development and quality-evaluation capabilities as global demand for sophisticated chipmaking materials continues to rise. Situated within the Fujifi...

28 Nov 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Semtech Delivers Record Q3 Net Sales as CEO Hong Hou Highlights Strong Customer Momentum and Ultra-Efficient Technology Leadership

Record net sales of $267.0 million, representing 13% year-over-year growth GAAP gross margin of 51.9%, up from 51.1% a year ago and Non-GAAP adjusted gross margin of 53.0%, up from 52.4% a year ago GAAP operating margin of 11.6% compared to 7.5% a year ago and Non-GAAP adjusted operating margin of 20.6% compared to 18.3% a year ago GAAP diluted loss per share of $0.03 compared to a diluted ...

26 Nov 2025 | Wednesday | Company results
W. L. Gore & Associates Opens Shanghai Battery Lab to Accelerate Advanced Battery Materials Innovation

W. L. Gore & Associates announced the opening of its Battery Lab in Shanghai, China, expanding its global R&D capabilities to accelerate advanced battery materials development for customers worldwide. The lab is dedicated to the development, characterization, and rigorous testing of critical materials for battery cells and packs—spanning membranes, venting solutions, moisture and con...

26 Nov 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Smartkem and JEV Advance Talks on Semiconductor–Energy Merger to Power Future AI Data Centers

Proposed all-stock transaction aims to align JEV's scalable energy platform with Smartkem's semiconductor innovations to power next generation AI data centers Smartkem, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMTK), ("Smartkem"), a company developing a new class of organic semiconductor technology, announced that it has agreed to a 60-day extension of its non-binding Letter of Intent ("LOI") for a proposed all-stock bus...

24 Nov 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Innatera and VLSI EXPERT Partner to Bring Neuromorphic Computing into University and Professional Training Programs

Hands-on courses will be powered by Pulsar microcontrollers across universities and professional programs Innatera, the leader in brain-like neuromorphic computing for ultra-low-power intelligence at the sensor edge, announces its supply-led collaboration with VLSI EXPERT, a leading semiconductor training, skilling, and up-skilling organization in India and the United States. The agreement b...

21 Nov 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Sivers and Tachyon Partner to Deliver Breakthrough 28GHz mmWave Connectivity with TRB02801 Integrated Circuit

Strategic Collaboration Uses Sivers' TRB02801 Integrated Circuit to Power Tachyon's Innovative Millimeter-Wave Solution Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, announced a mass-production purchase order agreement valued at approximately $3 million with Tachyon Networks Inc. ("Tachyon"), a pioneering provider of affordab...

21 Nov 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Beneq Launches Transmute to Bring Atomic Layer Deposition to True High Volume Semiconductor Manufacturing

New platform delivers ALD film quality at production throughput for Wide Bandgap and other specialty device manufacturing Beneq, a global leader in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment and solutions, announced Beneq Transmute™, a next-generation ALD platform designed for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Engineered for high volume production of Wide Bandgap (WBG) power electronics...

20 Nov 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
dSPACE Introduces DARTS ARROW for Advanced Functional Testing of Automotive Radar Sensors

dSPACE will demonstrate a new radar solution for functional testing of radar sensors. The DARTS ARROWhas been specially developed for use in end-of-line tests and periodic technical inspections (PTI) of radar-based driver assistance systems. The compact radar target simulator is efficient and easy to use and simulates the range, speed, and radar target cross-section of a radar target in dynamic ...

19 Nov 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Onto Innovation Closes $495M Semilab Acquisition to Boost Advanced Materials Characterization for Logic, Memory, and Packaging

Acquisition strengthens Onto’s position in advanced materials characterization for advanced logic/memory, specialty and advanced packaging segments Onto Innovation Inc. announced the successful closing of its previously announced acquisition of key product lines from the materials analysis business of Semilab International. Valued at approximately $495 million, the transaction ...

18 Nov 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS

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