MetaOptics Develops Compact Tunable Metalens Module for 3D Fingerprint Biometrics

MetaOptics Ltd (Catalist: 9MT) ("MetaOptics" or the "Company", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") has announced plans to develop a compact optical module for 3D non-contact fingerprint biometrics, designed to support future smartphone integration possibilities. The project enhances the Company's existing 3D sensing technology by reducing optical stack size and incorporating elec...

3 Mar 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
MaxLinear Showcases Expanding Sierra-Powered Open RAN Portfolio at MWC 2026

MaxLinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a leading provider of wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that it will showcase a growing range of commercially available Open RAN Radio Units (O-RU) based on its Sierra single‑chip radio SoC at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 in Barcelona. ttendees visiting meeting room 2L8MR in Hall 2 will see demonstrations of several new Sierra-powered O-RUs, in...

3 Mar 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Micron Inaugurates $2.75 Billion Semiconductor Assembly and Test Facility in Sanand, Marking India’s Entry into Commercial Chip Production

  Micron Technology, Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its semiconductor assembly and test facility in Sanand, Gujarat, India. The state-of-the-art facility converts advanced DRAM and NAND wafers from Micron's global manufacturing network into finished memory and storage products. Once fully ramped, the first phase of Micron’s Sanand operation will feature more than 500,000 square f...

2 Mar 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Surge Components Reports 16% Sales Growth and Higher Profitability in Fiscal 2025

Surge Components, Inc. (“Surge” or the “Company”) (OTC Pink: SPRS), a leading supplier of capacitors, discrete semiconductors, switches, and audible/sounding devices, announced financial results for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2025. Operational Highlights Continues to strengthen its distribution sales channel, with distribution partners remaining a key growt...

2 Mar 2026 | Monday | NEWS
DNP Invests in Rapidus to Support 2nm Semiconductor Mass Production

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP, TOKYO:7912) announced that it has participated in Rapidus Corporation’s funding round as one of the round investors. This strategic funding initiative supports Rapidus’ plan to steadily progress from its current R&D phase to mass production of 2nm (10⁻⁹ meters) logic semiconductors by 2027. Through this initiative, DNP will advance the devel...

2 Mar 2026 | Monday | NEWS
MP Materials Selects Texas Site for $1.25 Billion Rare Earth Magnet Campus

MP Materials Corp. (NYSE: MP) today announced it has selected a 120‑acre site in Northlake, Texas, to develop “10X,” the company’s planned large-scale rare earth magnet manufacturing campus. Located less than 10 miles from MP’s existing Independence facility in Fort Worth, the new campus will cement North Texas as the center of gravity for the United States’ rare ea...

2 Mar 2026 | Monday | NEWS
BrainChip Named Technology Sponsor for 2025–2026 Raytheon Autonomous Vehicle Competition

BrainChip Holdings Ltd. (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low-power, fully digital, event-based neuromorphic AI, announced its role as the official Technology Sponsor for the 2025-2026 Raytheon Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC). The Raytheon AVC, themed “Operation Touchdown,” challenges undergraduate engineering teams from ac...

2 Mar 2026 | Monday | NEWS
MaxLinear Showcases Sierra SoC for Next-Generation Open RAN Radios at MWC 2026

MaxLinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a leading provider of wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that it will demonstrate its newest advancements in RAN radio technologies at MWC Barcelona 2026. Attendees visiting meeting room 2L8MR in Hall 2 will see demonstrations of how MaxLinear’s Sierra single-chip radio SoC helps OEMs develop new innovative Open RAN Radio Units (O-RUs) addressing...

2 Mar 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation Launches 7th-Gen 24V MOSFET for Tri-Fold Smartphones

Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: MX, “Magnachip”) announced the launch of its new 7th-generation 24V MXT LV MOSFET1 specifically designed for battery protection circuits in next-generation tri-fold smartphones, strengthening its presence in the premium foldable smartphone market. The product is now in mass production and is currently being supplied to a major global smar...

27 Feb 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation Launches 135°C Photorelays for Automotive Chip Testing

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has launched four voltage-driven photorelays, “TLP3407SRB,” “TLP3412SRB,“ ”TLP3412SRHB,“ and “TLP3412SRLB” housed in the small S-VSON4T package. The new photorelays deliver a maximum operating temperature rating of 135°C for equipment that operates at high temperatures. Volume ...

27 Feb 2026 | Friday | NEWS
First Solar, Inc. Secures Perovskite Patent License from Oxford Photovoltaics Limited

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) (“First Solar” or “the Company”) announced a patent licensing agreement that gives it access to existing issued patents and currently pending patent applications of Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (“Oxford PV”) The non-exclusive license paves the way for First Solar, the largest solar manufacturer in the Western Hemisphere and the ...

27 Feb 2026 | Friday | NEWS
MIPI Alliance Upgrades UniPro and M-PHY to Power Next-Gen UFS 5.0 Chips

The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops specifications that standardize wired interfaces for mobile and other connected ecosystems, announced major updates to two of its foundational specifications. MIPI UniPro v3.0 and MIPI M-PHY v6.0 offer significant performance, latency and power-efficiency improvements for next-generation JEDEC Universal Flash S...

27 Feb 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Findchips Launches Tariff Estimator for Semiconductor Component Sourcing

Supplyframe’s Findchips launched its Tariff Estimator across a wide range of parts in the vast Findchips catalog. This groundbreaking new feature empowers engineers and sourcing professionals to translate Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) and Harmonized System (HS) codes and country-of-origin details into estimated tariff duty rates for imports into the U.S., providing a cost range for sourci...

26 Feb 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Airspan Networks Holdings LLC Launches AirUnity Small Cells Powered by EdgeQ Chip

Airspan Networks Holdings LLC (“Airspan”), a leading global provider of wireless network solutions, announced the launch of AirUnity Small Cells, a next-generation small cell portfolio designed to help mobile network operators (MNOs) and enterprises expand 4G and 5G coverage and capacity through targeted deployments that support scalable network densification across diverse indoor and ...

26 Feb 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
The Chemours Company Executive Joins SEMI North America Advisory Board

The Chemours Company (Chemours) (NYSE: CC), a global chemistry company, announced that Gerardo Familiar, President of the company's APM business, has been appointed to the SEMI North America Advisory Board (NAAB). SEMI is a global industry association serving thousands of member companies across the semiconductor and electronics design and manufacturing supply chain. The SEMI N...

25 Feb 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
SambaNova Systems Unveils SN50 AI Chip, Plans Strategic Collaboration with Intel

SambaNova introduced their SN50 AI chip, which boasts a max speed that’s 5X faster than competitive chips. The company also announced a planned collaboration with Intel to deliver high‑performance, cost‑efficient AI inference solutions, and more than $350M in investment from new and existing investors. Positioned as the most efficient chip for agentic AI, the SN50 chip offers ...

25 Feb 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Apple Inc. Expands U.S. Chip and Semiconductor Manufacturing in Houston

Apple® announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini® to the U.S. for the first time. The company will also expand advanced AI server manufacturing at the factory and provide hands-on training at its new Advanced Manufacturing Center beginning later this year. Altogether, Apple’s Houston operations will create thousands...

25 Feb 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
KIOXIA America, Inc. Begins Shipping UFS 5.0 Evaluation Samples

KIOXIA America, Inc. today announced that it has begun shipping evaluation samples1 of embedded flash memory compatible with the next-generation UFS standard, UFS 5.0, which is currently being standardized by JEDEC®2. UFS 5.0 is a new standard for embedded flash storage designed to meet the performance requirements of next-generation mobile devices such as high-end smartphones equip...

25 Feb 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
proteanTecs and Gubo Technologies Partner to Enhance AI Chip Visibility

proteanTecs®, a leading provider of deep data health and performance monitoring solutions for advanced electronics, and Gubo Technologies Co., Ltd., China’s first post silicon workflow automation solution provider, today announced a collaboration to deliver combined semiconductor analytics solutions. The collaboration is intended to provide broad, actionable insights into yield, quality,...

25 Feb 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Fractilia Secures First Production Deployment of FAME 300 System

Fractilia, the industry leader in high-accuracy stochastics metrology and control, announced that its FAME 300™ system has been adopted for production use by a top-five semiconductor device maker, marking the first time an in-line stochastics control solution has been fully integrated into a modern manufacturing environment. Fractilia confirmed that FAME 300 has been deployed as a fully aut...

25 Feb 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS