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...
Taiwan Weighs Export Controls That Could Limit Advanced Chip Production Overseas Taiwan is evaluating tighter export control measures that could restrict the manufacture of its most advanced semiconductors outside the island, a move that may reshape global chip supply strategies and slow the rollout of cutting edge production at overseas facilities. At the centre of the discussion is a proposed ...
Strategic Leadership Deal Revitalises Intel With Government Backing A new leadership-aligned funding framework is reshaping the outlook for Intel, strengthening its competitive position and reinforcing its role within the United States semiconductor ecosystem. The arrangement brings together executive leadership continuity and substantial public investment, aimed at accelerating execution across ...
United States Defers New Tariffs On Chinese Semiconductor Imports Until 2027The United States has decided to postpone the introduction of new tariffs on semiconductor imports from China until 2027, extending the current policy timeline by approximately eighteen months. The move reflects a cautious recalibration of trade strategy at a time when global supply chains, inflation pressures and technolo...
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, announced it will participate in CES 2026, as a sponsor of the CES Foundry, a two-day event at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, January 7 and 8, 2026. The CES Foundry convenes entreprene...
RI Research Instruments, a company that is majority-owned by Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR), announced orders for key components and enabling subsystems for the research gamma ray source of the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) at the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) in Romania. The total value of these ELI contracts is ap...
The "Semiconductor Wafer Polishing & Grinding Equipment Market - Global Forecast 2025-2032" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Semiconductor Wafer Polishing & Grinding Equipment Market grew from USD 582.82 million in 2024 to USD 612.25 million in 2025. It is expected to continue its upward trajectory at a CAGR of 5.44%, ultimately reaching USD 890.64 million b...
STRADVISION, a global leader in AI-based vision perception technology for autonomous driving, will participate in CES® 2026 in Las Vegas with a strong focus on ecosystem collaboration and platform-level integration with leading semiconductor and technology partners. At CES 2026, STRADVISION will demonstrate how its vision perception software, SVNet, is implemented and operating across multipl...
Cyient Semiconductors has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Kinetic Technologies, a global leader in power management, high-performance analog and mixed-signal ICs for a total consideration of up to USD 93 Mn. The combination establishes a scaled platform in the $40B+ power semiconductor market, accelerating Cyient Semiconductors' growth trajectory across data centers, e...
QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a leading developer of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Hard IP and User Tools, ruggedized FPGAs, and Endpoint AI/ML solutions, announces the scope of its Prime U.S. government contract for the development of Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH), high reliability Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to support identified and future Department of Defense (DoD) s...
Aravolta is redefining data center operations for colocations, clouds, edge data centers, universities and more. Aravolta builds integrated data center infrastructure (DCIM), electrical power (EPMS) and building management (BMS) products and are rapidly expanding as demand soars for their products. Aravolta is led by Margarita Groisman (CEO), Jack Sutton (CTO), and Pietro Sette (COO). Margarita p...
Zetta Joule, Inc., an advanced small modular reactor company, announced it has received formal support for its ZJ high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) project from Aramco Services Company, an affiliate of Motiva Enterprises, LLC, which operates the largest refinery by throughput in the United States. Zetta Joule’s proposed ZJ research reactor is designed with the unique ability ...
S2C, MachineWare, and Andes Technology announced a collaborative co-emulation solution designed to address the increasing complexity of RISC-V-based chip design. The solution integrates MachineWare's SIM-V virtual platform, S2C's Genesis Architect and Prodigy FPGA Prototyping Systems, and Andes' high-performance AX46MPV RISC-V CPU core, providing a unified environment for hardware and softw...
Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced AI-powered Chat and Copilot assistants for its Advanced Design System (ADS), delivering breakthrough natural language capabilities that accelerate design workflows while maintaining enterprise-grade security. Electronic design teams face mounting challenges: complex multi-domain workflows, fragmented data management, and relentless pressure to accelera...
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...
Quilter, the physics-driven AI for electronics design, announced the world’s first computer designed by artificial intelligence. A single engineer completed the layout taking a schematic to manufacturing-ready files in less than a week, a process that traditionally takes an entire engineering team months and requires multiple rounds of redesign. This initiative, called Project Speedr...
Strategic acquisition positions Virtusa at the forefront of AI and chip design innovation to meet surging demand for advanced silicon Virtusa Corporation, a global product and platform engineering services company, announced the strategic acquisition of SmartSoC Solutions (SmartSoC), a leader in semiconductor engineering and integrated circuit (IC) design services. This acquisition marks a pivo...
-Cirrus Logic (NASDAQ: CRUS), a leading provider of high-performance audio and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced the launch of its new family of closed-loop haptic drivers CS40L51, CS40L52 and CS40L53, marking the company’s first haptic driver solutions reliability qualified in accordance with the AEC-Q100 automotive standard. The new family of products brings Cirrus Lo...
-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 ...
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 ...