All 27 European Union member states have joined a Dutch-led initiative to strengthen Europe’s semiconductor strategy, as momentum builds for a renewed “Chips Act 2.0” aimed at safeguarding critical technologies, accelerating approvals, and expanding semiconductor capacity across the bloc. The Semicon Coalition, founded in March by the Netherlands alongside eight other EU count...
Alchip Technologies, the dedicated high-performance and AI computing ASIC leader, validated its 3DIC ecosystem readiness with results from its 3DIC test chip tape out. The results vaulted Alchip into a clear 3DIC technology leadership because it validated an entire, integrated 3DIC solution, as well as its various elements. The test chip provided CPU/NPU core demonstration, UCIe and PCIe ...
International Battery Metals Ltd. (“IBAT”) (TSXV: IBAT) & (OTCQB: IBATF), an advanced technology provider of modular direct lithium extraction (DLE) systems, announced it has entered into an 18-month exclusive collaboration agreement with a major Middle East energy services provider to jointly pursue direct lithium extraction (DLE) opportunities across the region. The agree...
Largest single order in the past three years includes more than 50,000 Avalon® A15 Pro bitcoin miners scheduled for delivery in fourth quarter 2025 Canaan Inc., an innovator in crypto mining, announced that it has secured a purchase order from a U.S.-based bitcoin miner for more than 50,000 of its latest-generation Avalon A15 Pro mining machines. Representing the largest order in the past t...
Global X Management Company LLC ("Global X"), the New York-based provider of exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced the launch of the Global X AI Semiconductor & Quantum ETF (CHPX), designed to capture innovation in the semiconductor industry. The fund is passively managed and priced at 50 bps. The semiconductor industry is evolving to cater to demands of next-gen computing, including AI a...
-Kioxia Corporation, a subsidiary of Kioxia Holdings Corporation (TOKYO: 285A) and Sandisk Corporation announced the start of operation at the Fab2 (K2), a state-of-the-art semiconductor fabrication facility, at the Kitakami Plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Fab2 has the capability to produce eighth-generation, 218-layer 3D flash memory, featuring the companies’ revolutionary CBA (CM...
-QuantumScape Corporation (NYSE: QS), a global leader in next-generation solid-state lithium-metal battery technology, and Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramics, and materials science, announced an agreement to jointly develop ceramic separator manufacturing capabilities for QS solid-state batteries. The companies will work together...
Collaboration enables workflows for TSMC advanced node technologies, accelerating AI, high-speed data communications, and advanced computing Key Highlights An AI-assisted optimization workflow helps shorten design cycle times on TSMC's compact universal photonic engine (COUPE) platform and strengthens design quality using Ansys optiSLang®, Ansys Zemax OpticStudio®, and Ansys Lu...
Aiming to strengthen the private-sector-led domestic automotive semiconductor ecosystem, expanding interdisciplinary cooperation across foundries, fabless companies, packaging companies, and more The company hosted the inaugural Auto Semicon Korea with the goal to localize automotive semiconductors and create a self-sustaining domestic value chain and business opportuniti...
Collaboration includes a strategic investment from UST as the companies look to build manufacturing base through the 'Make in India' initiative UST, a leading AI and technology transformation solutions company, has announced a strategic investment in Kaynes Semicon, a prominent Indian semiconductor manufacturer. The investment arrangement lays the foundation for g...
NexPoint, a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm, today announced that it has fully subscribed its NexPoint Semiconductor Manufacturing DST (the "Trust"), a Delaware Statutory Trust ("DST") offering. The offering has reached its total goal of $137 million in equity raised since its launch. The Property is located in Temecula, California, a city within the Riverside metropolitan stati...
Taking place from October 28 to 30, 2025 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao'an), NEPCON ASIA is the premier platform to discover the latest technologies and market trends, connect with new suppliers and products, and explore potential partnerships and distribution opportunities. Featuring an ever-expanding showcase of automation equipment and technologies, the ...
Tekscend Photomask (formerly Toppan Photomask), the world's largest merchant photomask supplier for the semiconductor industry, has installed a state-of-the-art photomask laser writing system, the SLX1, at its Corbeil, France facility. This marks the first European deployment of the SLX1 system, manufactured by Swedish technology leader, Mycronic AB. The new system represents a strat...
Flip Electronics, an authorized distributor of obsolete semiconductors and electronic components, announced that it is rebranding its subsidiary, Resurgent Manufacturing Services, to Flip Electronics Manufacturing Services (FMS). In January 2023, Flip Electronics acquired Resurgent Semiconductor, expanding its obsolescence management portfolio with extended-life manufacturing services for obsol...
Delta, a global leader in power management and smart green solutions, inaugurated in Taiwan its Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center, a strategic hub for equipment validation and talent training programs to support customers implementing geographically-distributed production and smart centralized management. At this one-stop platform site featuring hands-on training as well as production verifi...
Cyient Semiconductors Private Limited, a fast-growing custom silicon company, announced a strategic Channel Partner Agreement with GlobalFoundries (GF), one of the world's leading pure-play semiconductor foundries. Under the agreement, Cyient Semiconductors becomes an authorized reseller of GF's semiconductor manufacturing services and technologies. This collaboration is a significant step towa...
Pixelworks, Inc., announced that Universal Pictures' Nobody 2will be presented with TrueCut Motion™ technology on selected premium screens worldwide. Under the direction of the filmmakers, the Pixelworks motion grading team utilized advanced TrueCut Motion technology to bring stunning motion clarity to the new chapter from the bare-knuckle action-thriller, Nobody, which opened at num...
Normal Computing announces the successful tape-out of CN101, the world's first thermodynamic computing chip. This engineering milestone represents a key step toward validating Normal's Carnot architecture, purpose-built to accelerate computational tasks by harnessing the intrinsic dynamics of physical systems and achieving up to 1000× energy consumption efficiency on targeted AI and scient...
PI (Physik Instrumente), a global leader in precision motion and positioning solutions, offers standard and custom air bearing linear slides. Based on decades of experience from PI's USA engineering and manufacturing teams, these air bearings are designed for applications requiring ultra-smooth, zero stick-slip linear motion and sub-micron straightness and flatness. Frictionless Performa...
OpenLight, a leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing based on heterogeneous integration, today announced the close of its oversubscribed $34MSeries A. The round is co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; Juniper Networks, now part of HPE; Lam Capital, the corporate venture ...