nLIGHT, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASR), a leading provider of high-power lasers for mission-critical directed energy, optical sensing, and advanced manufacturing applications, announced plans to expand its existing operations in Torino, Italy, to support increased demand from European and allied customers for locally assembled directed energy solutions. The expanded Torino footprint is expected to enhance n...
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 launch of the SmartClamp™ family of protected DrMOS. Designed specifically for the extreme power demands of AI servers, data centers, and high-end graphics...
Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low-power programmable leader, announced it was named a 2026 AI Excellence Award winner by Business Intelligence Group. Lattice was recognised for its Edge AI solution developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, which delivers a flexible, full-stack platform for real-time data acquisition and processing. The solution combines the Latti...
Global technology corporation FPT and Shinhan Bank Co., Ltd. (Korea) (“Shinhan Bank”) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand cooperation in digital finance, startup ecosystems, and strategic technologies, with AI as a key enabler to unlock new opportunities across innovation ecosystems in Vietnam and South Korea. The MOU exchange ceremony took place during the V...
Ambiq Micro, Inc. (“Ambiq®”), a technology leader in ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions for edge AI, announced compressionKIT™, a next-generation AI-based codec in beta, proven to substantially reduce the power and memory costs of handling continuous sensor data in wearable and edge devices. As always-on devices—from medical wearables to smart home and indust...
SouthernCrossAI (SCX), Australia's full-stack sovereign AI infrastructure company, announced it is now providing sovereign AI inferencing capacity to the Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem, making its ASIC-powered inference nodes discoverable and accessible to enterprises, government agencies, and developers across the Equinix ecosystem. Alongside this milestone, SCX confirmed that its national infrastr...
Trio-Tech International (“Trio-Tech” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT: TRT), a comprehensive provider of semiconductor back-end solutions and a global value-added supplier of electronic equipment, announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct offering with fundamental institutional investors. The offering consisted of 1,052,632 shares of the Company’...
Majestic Labs unveiled Prometheus, the first AI server designed from the ground up to tackle the memory wall: the most critical obstacle to the advancement and deployment of AI models. Leveraging an innovative architecture and a complete software stack, the server connects orders of magnitude more memory to each processor, at unprecedented bandwidth, achieving performance equivalent to multiple ra...
Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays, including MicroLED displays, announced a strategic collaboration with Fabric.AI (NASDAQ: SBLX), a leading developer of fabless semiconductor solutions for AI infrastructure, to develop MicroLED-based optical interconnect technology that will be designed to replace tradit...
The MIPI Alliance, an international organisation that develops specifications that standardise wired interfaces for mobile and other connected ecosystems, announced the formation of a Physical AI Birds of a Feather (BoF) group dedicated to exploring upcoming technologies and trends in the physical AI market, with an initial focus on humanoids. The group will examine how MIPI specifi...
Liquid Instruments, a pioneer in software-defined test solutions, announced the close of its $50 million Series C funding round, co-led by Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a global leader in design, emulation, and test solutions, and the Australian Government’s National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC). In addition to investing, Keysight will enter into a commer...
OpenLight, the world leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design leveraging its patented heterogeneous silicon photonics process, announced it has raised an additional $50 million in a Series A-1 round, bringing the company’s total funding to $84 million. The financing reflects growing commercial momentum and accelerating customer adoption across AI infra...
ROHM Co., Ltd. has developed a wireless power supply IC chipset consisting of the receiver (ML7670) and transmitter (ML7671) compatible with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for compact wearables such as smart rings and smart bands. The smart ring market has seen rapid growth in recent years. However, for extremely small ring-shaped devices worn on the finger, wired charging is impr...
Kyocera Corporation (President: Shiro Sakushima; “Kyocera”) announced that it is commercialising a new multilayer ceramic core substrate for advanced semiconductor packages, such as xPUs(1) and switch ASICs, which are rapidly scaling in complexity as AI data centre architectures evolve. The new product will be unveiled at ECTC 2026, an international conference ...
Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announced the launch of the Kingston DC3000ME Gen5 U.2 NVMe SSD with a new high-capacity 30.72TB1 option, expanding the DC3000ME family to address the growing storage density and performance demands of modern data centres. The DC3...
Seoul Viosys (KOSDAQ: 092190), a company specialising in opto-semiconductor devices, is accelerating its entry into the next-generation photonics market supported by its proprietary “No-wire” and “No-package” fundamental patents—essential technologies for micrometre (μm)-scale miniaturisation of opto-semiconductors—as well as its competitiveness in VCSEL...
Palliser Capital (“Palliser”), a top 25 shareholder of SMC Corporation (“SMC” or the “Company”), published a comprehensive plan (“Value Enhancement Plan”) outlining the opportunities available to unlock substantial long-term value at the Company. To promote market transparency and respond to growing interest from shareholders and other stakeho...
Trio-Tech International (“Trio-Tech” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT: TRT), a comprehensive provider of semiconductor back-end solutions and a global value-added supplier of electronic equipment, announced that it has entered into securities purchase agreements with fundamental institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 1,052,632 shares of its common stock in a regist...
Omdia has significantly raised its semiconductor revenue forecast for 2026 to 62.7%, again reflecting unprecedented growth in DRAM and NAND driven by sustained demand and ongoing supply shortages expected to persist through the year. The DRAM market is forecast to nearly double in value, while the smaller NAND segment could quadruple compared to 2025. Supply constraints in conventional memory IC ...
Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced the acquisition of Polariton Technologies, a developer of high-speed, low-power plasmonics-based silicon photonics devices. The acquisition strengthens Marvell’s optical technology portfolio by adding advanced modulation capabilities that enable continued scaling in bandwidth, power ef...