• Sunday | 20 September 2026
PsiQuantum Secures $100 Million US CHIPS Funding to Advance Quantum Computing Manufacturing

PsiQuantum announced that the company has signed definitive documentation with the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $100 million award to strengthen American leadership in quantum computing and semiconductor supply-chain security. In May 2026, the company announced that it had signed a letter of intent with the Department for $100 million in proposed federal research and development (R&...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
HyperLight Expands TFLN Photonics Ecosystem with VentureTech Alliance Investment

HyperLight Corporation ("HyperLight"), a leader in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics, announced that VentureTech Alliance ("VTA") has joined its Series C financing round. VTA is a venture investment firm focused on the semiconductor industry, with a portfolio spanning the semiconductor technology stack—including circuit design, foundry-adjacent process technology, EDA, advanced pack...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Panmnesia and Meta Propose CXL Architecture to Turn AI Datacentres into a Single Computing System

Panmnesia, a fabless semiconductor company, and Meta, a global hyperscaler, have jointly proposed a next-generation artificial intelligence datacenter architecture in which an entire datacenter operates like a single chip. The work appears as an invited Review in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering (NREE), a Nature Portfolio journal. The unit of AI execution is moving from one chip to the whole...

10 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Quantinuum Secures $100 Million CHIPS Funding to Advance US Quantum Manufacturing

Quantinuum (Nasdaq: QNT), a leading quantum computing company, announced it has finalised an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce's CHIPS Research and Development Office for $100 million in federal funding deployed through the CHIPS and Science Act. The award, which follows a letter of intent announced in May, supports R&D and U.S. quantum semiconductor manufacturing c...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
AOS Launches 600V Super Junction MOSFETs for High-Density Power Applications

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide-bandgap power devices, power management ICs and modules, announced the release of αMOS E2™ 600V Super Junction MOSFETs: AOGT037V60DE2 and AOGT060V60DE2. AOS engineered its newly developed αMOS E2 High-Voltage M...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Realtek Advances 3nm ASIC Strategy as AI Drives Taiwan’s Semiconductor Growth

Realtek Semiconductor is expanding its presence in higher-end custom chip development, with Chairman Chiu Shun-chien revealing that the company’s ASIC projects have now reached the 3nm process node. Speaking after being inducted as an Academician of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Chiu also confirmed that Realtek is working with Nvidia and other international ...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
SEMIFIVE Begins Mass Production of 4nm AI Inference Accelerator for HyperAccel

SEMIFIVE, a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) solutions, announced that it has begun mass production of a data center AI inference accelerator for HyperAccel. This milestone marks SEMIFIVE's first large-scale mass production project utilising Samsung Foundry's 4nm advanced process node. Following the successful initial production contract with HyperAccel, mass production v...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and EdgeCortix Partner on AI-Enabled Aerospace Defence Systems

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (“Kawasaki”) and EdgeCortix Inc. (“EdgeCortix”), a leading fabless semiconductor company specialising in energy-efficient edge AI processing, announced the signing of a Teaming Agreement to advance next-generation AI-enabled aerospace and defence systems. The agreement establishes a multi-year strategic program, with an initial scope totalli...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Intel Foundry and ASML Advance High-NA EUV Lithography for Mass Production

This week at the SPIE Photomask Technology + Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography conference, Intel Foundry and ASML highlighted continued progress in bringing High Numerical Aperture (High NA) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography into production and advancing the technologies that will shape its future adoption. Specifically, Intel Foundry and ASML shared the following updates: High NA continues ...

9 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Hanmi Semiconductor Expands 2.5D Packaging Equipment Presence in Taiwan

South Korean semiconductor equipment maker Hanmi Semiconductor has secured an important foothold in Taiwan’s advanced packaging market after its 2.5D bonding equipment passed mass-production qualification at a Taiwanese foundry. The company has subsequently begun supplying its packaging bonders to the unnamed customer, marking a significant step in Hanmi’s efforts to expand beyond its ...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Baya Systems Targets Japan’s AI and Chiplet Market with Advanced Data-Movement Technology

In this exclusive interview,  Semicon Leaders Asia speaks with Nandan Nayampally, Chief Commercial Officer at Baya Systems, about the company’s expansion into Japan and the growing opportunities across the country’s semiconductor ecosystem. Nayampally shares his insights into the rising demand for AI, HPC, automotive and chiplet-based architectures, the importance of efficien...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | Interaction
Silicon Labs Opens Austin R&D Lab to Advance Wireless Semiconductor Innovation

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), the leader in low-power wireless connectivity, celebrated the opening of its new research and development (R&D) laboratory for advanced chip design and testing in Austin. The new R&D laboratory, made possible in part through a $23 million grant from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF) established by the Texas CHIPS Act, was officially ...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Park Systems Opens Hillsboro Office to Support Pacific Northwest Semiconductor Industry

Park Systems, a leading global manufacturer of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and nanoscale metrology systems, today announced the opening of its newest regional office in Hillsboro, Oregon. The strategic addition enhances the company's ability to provide localised technical support, rapid-response customer engineering, and direct account management to key semiconductor and high-technology par...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
BYD’s Semiconductor Strategy Strengthens China’s Automotive Chip Self-Reliance

The global automotive industry is entering a new phase in which semiconductors are becoming as strategically important as batteries, motors and manufacturing scale. As vehicles evolve into software-defined, AI-enabled platforms, chips increasingly determine everything from power management and cockpit functions to advanced driver-assistance systems. At the same time, geopolitical tensions and tech...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Hyosung Heavy Industries Expands US Power Infrastructure for AI Data Centres

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-centre infrastructure is creating a new set of challenges for electricity generation, transmission and distribution, particularly in the United States. Rising power consumption from AI workloads, combined with the need to modernise ageing grid infrastructure, is prompting significant investment in technologies capable of delivering more ...

8 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
proteanTecs and MegaChips Partner to Enhance ASIC and LSI Silicon Visibility

ProteanTecs®, the leading provider of health and performance management solutions for advanced electronics, announced it is collaborating with MegaChips on the integration of ProteanTecs’ embedded monitoring technology into MegaChips’ next-generation ASIC and LSI digital systems. The joint work will focus on bringing deep silicon visibility across development, production and in-fi...

7 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Bruker BEST and Luvata Partner to Scale Superconductors for Fusion Energy

Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST), a segment of Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR), and Luvata Materials & Solutions, a Business Unit of Luvata Group (LUVATA), announced a strategic collaboration to support the rapidly growing demand for superconducting materials and technologies required by next-generation magnetic confinement fusion power demonstration plant projects ...

7 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Global Semiconductor Equipment Billings Hit Record US$40.53 Billion in Q2 2026

SEMI, the industry association advancing the global semiconductor and electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, announced in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) report that global semiconductor equipment billings increased 23% year-over-year to US$40.53 billion in the second quarter of 2026. Second-quarter 2026 billings registered an 11% quarter-over...

7 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Manz Asia and SUSS Partner to Advance Inkjet Solutions for Semiconductor Packaging

A leading manufacturer of advanced semiconductor packaging equipment, Manz Asia, announced a strategic collaboration with SUSS, a leading manufacturer of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry, to jointly advance next-generation inkjet solutions for semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging applications. As semiconductor manufacturing moves toward higher integrati...

7 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS
EverProX Launches MSDL 20G Chipset for Low-Power Multi-Camera Vision Systems

EverProX Technologies Munich GmbH, under its Silicon Line® brand—a pioneer in ultra-low-power optical and electrical interconnect technology announced the launch of "MSDL™ 20G", which is the first product in the new MSDL™ family, an end-to-end interconnect chipset comprising the SL8582x serializer and SL8581x deserializer. Engineered to overcome the bandwidth, EMI, and reach ...

7 Sep 2026 | Monday | NEWS

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