• Tuesday | 12 May 2026
Global Semiconductor Equipment Market Hits Record $135 Billion in 2025 Amid AI-Driven Expansion

Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment increased 15% to $135.1 billion in 2025 from $117.1 billion in 2024, driven by continued investment in advanced logic, memory, and AI-related capacity expansion, SEMI, the industry association representing the global electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, reported. The data is available in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipme...

9 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Strategic Push into Agentic AI: SambaNova Systems and Intel Corporation Unveil Heterogeneous Inference Architecture

SambaNova announced the next phase of its collaboration with Intel: a heterogeneous hardware solution that combines GPUs for prefill, Intel Xeon® 6 processors as both host and “action” CPUs, and SambaNova RDUs for decode to deliver premium inference for the most demanding Agentic AI applications. The design will be made available in H2 2026 to enterprises, cloud providers, and...

9 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Mouser Launches 2026 EIT Series on Engineering AI for Everyday Applications

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorised global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, announced the first 2026 instalment of its Empowering Innovation Together (EIT) technology series, Engineering AI for Daily Life. This installment explores how artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in everyday products and services, from as...

9 Apr 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Metallium Advances Gallium Recovery Technology for Defence Supply Chains

Metallium Limited (ASX: MTM; OTCQX: MTMCF; OTCQX ADR: MTLMY) announced its 100% owned subsidiary of Metallium Ltd., Flash Metals Texas, Inc., has successfully completed Phase I of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) through the Defence Logistics Agency (DLA). The program, titled "Domestic Recovery of Gallium from Waste through Fla...

8 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
IQM Advances Public Listing Plans Through SPAC Merger with RAAQ

IQM Finland Oy, a global leader in deployed on-premises, full-stack superconducting quantum computers (“IQM”, “IQM Quantum Computers” or the “Company”), and Real Asset Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (Nasdaq: RAAQ) (“RAAQ”), announced the confidential submission of the draft registration statement on Form F-4 (the “Regi...

8 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Bruker Advances NanoIR Technology to Support Next-Gen Semiconductor Research

Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) announced accelerated development of its photothermal AFM-IR spectroscopy capabilities to address research challenges facing the semiconductor industry as device architectures continue to shrink and systems become increasingly more complex. As the largest supplier of nanoscale infrared (nanoIR) spectroscopy technology to the semiconductor industry, Bruker is ...

8 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Bureau Veritas to Acquire Lotusworks to Strengthen AI Infrastructure Capabilities

Bureau Veritas, a global leader in Testing, Inspection, and Certification services (TIC), announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire Lotusworks, a global leader in mission‑critical assets commissioning and quality assurance and control. This strategic move will uniquely position the Buildings & Infrastructure Product Line to benefit from AI-driven construction investments. Headqua...

8 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Eltek Secures $5.3m PCB Orders to Strengthen Global Presence

Eltek Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELTK), a leading global manufacturer of high-quality printed circuit boards, announced that it has received purchase orders totalling approximately $5.3 million from an international customer. The orders are scheduled for delivery beginning in the second quarter of 2026, with the final shipment expected in September 2027. "We are pleased with this award, which supports ou...

7 Apr 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Booking Holdings Appoints Former NXP CEO Kurt Sievers to Board

Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG) announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Kurt Sievers, former Chief Executive Officer of NXP Semiconductors, to the Board effective. Mr. Sievers served as President and Chief Executive Officer of NXP Semiconductors N.V. from 2020 until his retirement in 2025. He previously served as President beginning in 2018 and joined NXP's Executive Managem...

7 Apr 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
OMNIVISION and ATL Medical Partner to Advance Arthroscopy Imaging

OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor technology, including advanced digital imaging, analogue, and display solutions, and ATL Medical, Inc., a designer, developer and manufacturer of innovative medical devices, today announced that ATL is using the OVMed® OH0131 image signal processor (ISP) in its PREVOYANCE® Complete Imaging System with Chip-on-Tip® t...

7 Apr 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
ACCM Launches Zero-Skew Laminate for Next-Generation High-Speed Designs

Advanced Chip & Circuit Materials, Inc. (ACCM) introduced Celeritas SF1600, a laminate and prepreg material that eliminates fiber weave skew at its root. Fiber weave skew is a materials problem, not a routing one. Woven glass creates a spatially periodic dielectric in which differential pairs travel alternately through resin-rich and glass-rich regions. In a differential pair, the two conducto...

7 Apr 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Lattice Semiconductor Recognised for Cybersecurity Leadership at 2026 Awards

Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low-power programmable leader, announced it was named a multi-award winner at the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for its security leadership. The Lattice MachXO5™-NX TDQ FPGA family was recognised in the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) category for being the industry’s first FPGA family to deliver CNSA-2.0 compli...

6 Apr 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Cohu Secures $30m in Follow-On Orders for HPC Test Platform

Cohu, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHU), a global supplier of equipment and services optimising semiconductor manufacturing yield and productivity, announced that two customers have placed follow-on orders totalling $30 million for the Eclipse platform configured with active thermal control for testing of next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) processors. The orders, which are expected to be delivere...

6 Apr 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Parade Technologies Launches DP 2.1a MST Hub for Automotive and Display Expansion

Parade Technologies, Ltd. (Taiwan OTC: 4966.TWO), a leading high-speed interface, video display, and touch controller IC supplier, announces the availability of PS8651V DP 2.1a/HBR3 1:2 MST hub controller for automotive, accessories and video display designs that need DP/eDP port expansion. It adds to Parade’s DP MST Hub solutions, which include the PS8650 DP 2.1a/UHBR20 1:4 MST hub controll...

6 Apr 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Renesas Powers NASA’s Artemis II Mission with Radiation-Hardened ICs

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) ICs are being used in NASA’s Artemis II mission, which successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1. The first crewed mission around the moon in decades, Artemis II represents a major milestone in NASA’s plans to re...

6 Apr 2026 | Monday | NEWS
NUBURU Secures Initial Counter-Drone Deployment in Asia-Pacific

NUBURU, Inc. (NYSE American: BURU – the “Company”), a dual-use Defense & Security platform company focused on non-kinetic effects, directed-energy technologies, electronic warfare and software-orchestrated defense systems,  announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lyocon S.r.l. (“Lyocon”), has secured an initial deployment order for its portable directed-e...

6 Apr 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Cognichip Secures $60m Series A to Advance AI-Driven Chip Design

Cognichip, the company pioneering ACI® – Artificial Chip Intelligence – for semiconductor design, announced an oversubscribed $60 million Series A financing led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from SBI Investment and additional semiconductor-focused investors. All seed investors, including Mayfield, Lux Capital, FPV, and Candou Ventures, participated above pro rata allocat...

6 Apr 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Intel to Reclaim Full Ownership of Ireland Fab in $14.2bn Deal

Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) and Apollo (NYSE: APO) announced a definitive agreement for Intel to repurchase the 49% equity interest in the joint venture related to Intel’s Fab 34 in Ireland not held by Intel for $14.2 billion. The agreement reflects Intel’s continued business momentum underpinned by the growing and essential role CPUs play in the era of AI, a significantly strengt...

3 Apr 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Penguin Solutions Completes Strategic Divestment of Zilia Technologies

Penguin Solutions, Inc. (“Penguin Solutions” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PENG) announced that SMART Modular Technologies (LX) S.à r.l. (“Seller”), a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the Company, closed the transaction contemplated by that certain Stock Transfer Agreement (the “Stock Transfer Agreement”) entered into on December 29,...

3 Apr 2026 | Friday | NEWS
InTest Appoints Rich Rogoff as CEO to Drive Next Phase of Growth

InTest Corporation (NYSE American: INTT), a global supplier of innovative test and process technology solutions for use in manufacturing and testing in key target markets which include Semiconductor, Auto/EV, Defense/Aerospace, Industrial, Life Sciences, and Safety/Security, announced that Rich Rogoff, Division President of InTest’s Environmental Technologies Division, has also been named Pr...

3 Apr 2026 | Friday | NEWS

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