• Tuesday | 21 July 2026
POLYN Partners with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France to Accelerate Neuromorphic AI Chip Commercialisation

Alexander Simin, COO of POLYN Technology, speaks exclusively with Semicon Leaders Asia about the company's partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France, the commercialisation of its neuromorphic AI technology, and its vision for advancing edge AI, automotive innovation and the future of Physical AI.   Q1. How does this partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France strengthen POLYN’s commercial...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | Interaction
Infinity AI Raises US$15 Million to Accelerate AI Inference Software for Next-Generation Semiconductor Chips

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...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
WiMi Unveils QRAM-Based Quantum CNN to Accelerate AI Image Classification

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...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Tower Semiconductor to Invest US$3 Billion in Japan to Expand Silicon Photonics and AI Chip Manufacturing

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...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Micro-Transfer Printing Advances Silicon Photonics Integration for Next-Generation AI Infrastructure

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...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
CuspAI Launches AI Materials Foundry with NVIDIA and Meta to Accelerate Semiconductor Materials Discovery

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...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Tata Electronics Bets on Mature Semiconductor Nodes to Build India's First Commercial Chip Fab

Tata Electronics is focusing on mature semiconductor process technologies as it prepares to establish India's first commercial wafer fabrication facility, adopting a phased approach aimed at building a sustainable domestic chip manufacturing ecosystem rather than competing immediately in leading-edge production. The company's fabrication plant at Dholera, Gujarat, will initially manufacture chips...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Mitsubishi Electric, Rohm and Toshiba Target September Deal to Merge Power Semiconductor Businesses

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...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Penguin Solutions Closes US$750 Million Convertible Notes Offering to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Growth

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 ...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Power Integrations Grants Equity Awards to New Employees Under 2025 Inducement Plan

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...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
QumulusAI Becomes NVIDIA Cloud Partner to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Deployment

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...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Viettel to Invest US$1.3 Billion in Hanoi Semiconductor Fab as Vietnam Attracts US$588 Million in High-Tech Investment

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...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Harel Increases Stake in Camtek as AI Chip Manufacturing Drives Demand for Semiconductor Inspection Equipment

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...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
UMC Begins Mass Production of Silicon Photonics Wafers in Singapore for AI Data Centres and Optical Networking

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...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
LG Chem Begins Mass Production of Semiconductor Strippers for Amkor Technology, Expanding Chip Materials Business

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...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB and Advanced Packaging Design, Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell

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...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
ATLANT 3D Secures AI Hyperscaler Order for NANOFABRICATOR LITE to Accelerate AI-Driven Materials Discovery

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...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Hedge Funds Increase Semiconductor Exposure as AI Investment Momentum Drives Market Positioning, Says Hazeltree

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...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Whalechip Deploys ChipAgents AI Platform to Accelerate Semiconductor Chip Debugging

ChipAgents, the category leader for Agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, announced that Whalechip has successfully deployed ChipAgents' AI-powered platform, which immediately paid dividends during a recent critical chip debugging effort. Using ChipAgents, the Whalechip engineering team was able to rapidly identify critical design issues in a new chip and significantly reduce ...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Inturai Ventures and Chipforge Partner to Develop FPGA-Based Edge AI Platform for Autonomous Drone Swarms

Inturai Ventures Corp. (the "Company") (CSE: URAI) (OTC: URAIF) (FSE: 3QG0) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") with Chipforge, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pathkey Limited ("Pathkey") (ASX: PKY), an Australian public-listed semiconductor and technology group, to jointly develop drone swarm command and control on an edge-computing plat...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS

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