ChipAgents, the category leader for Agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, announced it has closed an oversubscribed $50 million Series A1 funding round, bringing total capital raised to $74 million. The round was led by Matter Venture Partners, a TSMC-backed HardTech VC firm, with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, and Ericsson. ...
Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) commemorated the opening of its new office in Boise, Idaho, joined by U.S. Senator Jim Risch, representatives of Micron Technology, Inc. and other distinguished local government, community, and academic leaders. The new office will initially support approximately 150 Lam personnel from the greater Boise area focused on collaborative research, devel...
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader™ empowering innovation, invites electronic design engineers to visit its exhibit at DesignCon 2026, February 24 – 26, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Mouser representatives will be at Booth 1139 in the exhibit hall to present the newest and widest selection of semiconductors and t...
Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon and software IP for the smart edge, announced that 2025 marked a breakthrough year for its artificial intelligence ("AI") licensing business, with 10 NeuPro™ neural processing unit ("NPU") agreements signed and with AI contributing more than 20% of annual licensing revenue in 2025. As AI expands beyond the cloud into real-...
The European Union has committed €700 million to support a new pilot line dedicated to nano-integrated circuit (NanoIC) technologies, marking a major step in strengthening Europe’s semiconductor capabilities. The investment forms part of the EU’s wider Chips Act initiative, which seeks to reinforce the region’s technological independence and competitiveness in the global chi...
Texas Instruments has introduced a new range of automotive semiconductor solutions designed to enhance vehicle safety and enable higher levels of driving automation. The latest portfolio reflects the company’s ongoing efforts to support the automotive industry’s transition towards more intelligent, connected and software-defined vehicles. A key component of the annou...
SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), the largest exclusively U.S.-based pure-play semiconductor foundry, announced the appointment of Christine Dunbar as senior vice president of sales and solutions engineering, reporting directly to President and COO John Sakamoto. In her role, Dunbar will focus on accelerating customer acquisition and scaling growth across the company’s core platforms....
The Advanced Semiconductor R&D Center has officially broken ground at the headquarters campus of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Hsinchu. Jointly developed by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, the National Development Council, and the National Science and Technology Council, the center is designed to lower verification barriers for small and mid-sized IC design firm...
Chiplet Summit, the industry’s largest chiplet event, today announced that MIPS, a GlobalFoundries company, will participate in Chiplet Summit 2026, February 17-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Drew Barbier, VP Products at MIPS, will deliver a presentation titled “Safety-Critical Physical AI Applications Using RISC-V.” He will also be on the panel “S...
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has commenced construction of a new advanced semiconductor research and development facility in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. The project represents a total investment of NT$3.772 billion and is scheduled for completion by December 2027, with phased operations expected to begin in the first quarter of 2028. The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by...
GigaDevice, a leading semiconductor company specialising in Flash memory, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and analogue products, has entered into a distribution agreement with SEMITRON, a leading electronic component distributor with a focus on the DACH region. Under the terms of the deal, SEMITRON is set to supply both GigaDevice's leading Flash, MCU, power and senso...
MetaPhase announced that its accelerating-innovation solution, ChallengeAI™, has been assessed as "Awardable" by the Department of War (DoW) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the DoW’s suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and...
ChEmpower, a leader in semiconductor process innovation, announced Chakra™, a family of functional polishing pads, beginning with the Copper Series, designed specifically for abrasive-free Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP). Chakra™ is a core component of ChEmpower’s patented planarization technology, enabling the precision, yield, and surface integrity required for next-gen...
At SmallSat Symposium 2026, VORAGO Technologies, a radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant chip provider for space applications, announced a software partnership with wolfSSL, a company specialising in embedded cryptography for secure systems, successfully for the last 20 years. This unique partnership delivers radiation-hardened chips with built-in, standards-based cryptographic secur...
I/ONX High Performance Compute (HPC) has been selected to participate in a series of classes and training workshops at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ (UNLV) College of Engineering. I/ONX has joined the AI-driven, Career Inspiring Experiential Program for Semiconductor Education (ACIES) program as an industry partner, and Chief Executive Officer Justyn Hornor is leading the discussions...
Wolfspeed, a global leader in silicon carbide technology, is expanding its use of Snowflake to accelerate manufacturing efficiency and operational excellence as it scales production to meet growing market demand. After bringing together factory, supply chain, and enterprise data on a single, governed platform, Wolfspeed is now deploying AI across its operations to improve cost, quality, ...
GCT Semiconductor Holding, Inc. (“GCT” or the "Company") (NYSE: GCTS), a leading designer and supplier of advanced 5G and 4G semiconductor solutions, and Skylo Technologies, Inc, a global Non-Terrestrial Network provider spanning 36 countries across 70 million square kilometres of coverage, announced a partnership to advance next-generation satellite connectivity. As part of this colla...
Axera, a portfolio company of Qiming Venture Partners and a leading Chinese edge AI chip company, successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on February 10th, 2026, Beijing time, becoming the first of its kind to go public. Axera (00600.HK) issued shares at a price of HK$28.2 per share with a market capitalization of HK$ 16.58 billion. As the first investors in the company, Qim...
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) announced SOS Enterprise, an advanced edition of its engineering data management platform. The solution builds on the SOS Core software and automates engineering data governance and traceability to prepare for AI adoption at scale. As semiconductor and electronics development accelerates, engineers face growing design complexity and rapidly incre...
Efinix®, Inc., the FPGA pioneer accelerating edge AI innovation, announced the promotion of Tony Ngai to Co-President and Chief Technology Officer. In his expanded role, Ngai will drive the scaling of Efinix's engineering organisations while continuing to lead innovation in FPGA architecture, IC design, software development, and next-generation product roadmaps. "Tony invented Efinix’s ...