Aeonsemi, a leader in mixed-signal and DSP connectivity ICs, announced LumaReach™, the industry’s first commercially available 10 Gbps Ethernet-over-coax network controller IC. Developed as a new fibre-extension technology, LumaReach™ delivers fibre-class latency and bandwidth over existing RG6 and RG59 coaxial cabling already installed in approximately 150 million homes acr...
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, has opened its new 30,000-square-foot state-of-the-art, vertically integrated research and microgravity payload development facility in Georgetown, Indiana. The facility will serve as a global hub supporting accelerated demand as the company continues to expand its leadership in space-enabled research, deve...
Mach42, an AI-driven company developing technology to accelerate analog circuit simulation for semiconductor design, has closed a £7m pre-series A funding round. The round was led by IP Group plc, the most active UK-based early-stage science and technology investor, alongside existing investors BGF and Foresight Group. The funding will enable Mach42 to scale its engineering and business dev...
Air Products (NYSE: APD), a world-leading industrial gases company, announced Air Products San Fu has been awarded a long-term agreement to support a semiconductor manufacturer's expansion in Taiwan. The project will supply multiple new semiconductor fabs and back-end packaging facilities, supporting growing demand driven by artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Air Product...
Infinity.inc (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an early-stage AI infrastructure research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced it has raised $15 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. The round included significant participation from Touring Capital, along with Principal VC, executives at major chip...
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, announced the release of its latest independently developed achievement—a quantum convolutional neural network for efficient image classification based on quantum random access memory (QRAM). This technology is oriented toward typical image classific...
Tower Semiconductor will invest approximately US$3 billion to significantly expand its manufacturing footprint in Japan, backed by around US$1 billion in financial support from the Japanese government, as the speciality foundry seeks to capitalise on surging demand for semiconductors powering artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and advanced communications. The Israeli chipmaker sa...
Silicon photonics has emerged as a promising technology for addressing bandwidth and latency bottlenecks of conventional electrical interconnects and therefore are being explored for future artificial intelligence infrastructure. However, heterogenous integration of multiple material systems remains a challenge. Now, researchers show how micro-transfer printing can enable highly versatile heteroge...
CuspAI announced the launch of the AI Materials Foundry, bringing together a global network of data, labs, compute and scientific expertise for the design of new materials, orchestrated by a single agentic platform. Over 45 organisations join as founding members, including NVIDIA, which will provide the compute infrastructure, and Meta’s Fundamental AI Research Team, who develop the Univers...
Mitsubishi Electric is aiming to reach an agreement by September to combine its power semiconductor business with those of Rohm and Toshiba, as the three Japanese companies seek to strengthen their competitiveness in the rapidly expanding global market for power chips. The proposed integration would bring together three of Japan's leading power semiconductor manufacturers, creating one of the wor...
Penguin Solutions, Inc., the AI Factory Platform Company (“Penguin,” “we” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PENG), announced that it has closed its previously announced private offering of $750.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2031 (the “Notes”) to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers as ...
Power Integrations has announced the grant of equity awards to five newly hired employees as part of its strategy to attract and retain talent, reinforcing its commitment to building a strong workforce to support the company's long-term growth. The company granted a total of 12,017 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and 1,213 Performance Stock Units (PSUs), at target, to employees who joined the busin...
QumulusAI (Nasdaq: QMLS), a neocloud infrastructure provider purpose-built for the AI computing era, announced it has been approved as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) within the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN), reinforcing its ability to bring high-performance compute online quickly to meet growing customer demand. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, QumulusAI can work with AI-native companies, enterprises, a...
Vietnam's capital is strengthening its position as a regional technology hub after Viettel committed US$1.3 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility, a move that has helped Hanoi attract US$588 million in high-tech investment during the first half of the year. The planned chip manufacturing complex forms part of Vietnam's broader strategy to develop a domestic semiconductor industr...
Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services has expanded its holding in semiconductor inspection equipment supplier Camtek, reinforcing institutional confidence in the company's long-term growth prospects amid rising demand for advanced chip manufacturing technologies. According to a recent regulatory filing, Harel increased its stake by 38.2% during the first quarter, acquiring an addit...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has started commercial production of silicon photonics wafers at its 300 mm manufacturing facility in Singapore, strengthening its capabilities in optical semiconductor technologies as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and high-speed data communications continues to rise. The milestone follows a joint development programme with Singap...
LG Chem (KRX: 051910) announced that it has begun mass production and supply of semiconductor strippers to Amkor Technology, marking the company’s first entry into the semiconductor stripper market and accelerating its strategy to expand its semiconductor materials business. Amkor Technology is a global leader in outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT), providing semiconducto...
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) introduced the AuraStack™ AI Super Agent on Cadence® Allegro® AI Studio, the world’s first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging design, taking designers from system planning to final product in a single AI-native environment. The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA CUDA-X, coor...
ATLANT 3D announced that it has secured an order from a leading global AI hyperscaler for its NANOFABRICATOR® LITE platform. The system will support the customer's AI-driven materials discovery lab, enabling rapid experimental fabrication and validation of AI-generated materials as well as creating experimental data for a recursive innovation process. The order reflects the growing industry de...
The first half of 2026 was defined by a tale of two stories. An AI-infrastructure investment cycle kept broadening and intensifying as positioning in AI-linked technology and hardware names grew steadily more crowded and consensus-driven from January through June, while markets had to absorb a serious geopolitical shock with an escalating Middle East conflict disrupting the transit of oil and push...