• Saturday | 01 August 2026
IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Plan $2 Billion Quantum Foundry Initiative to Strengthen American Semiconductor Leadership

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) announced a Letter of Intent (LOI) to build an American quantum chip foundry, securing the nation's global quantum leadership and fueling the country's growing quantum ecosystem. The CHIPS incentive from the DoC will support the research and development efforts of a new IBM company: Anderon, which will be America's first pure-play quan...

22 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
PsiQuantum Secures Proposed $100 Million CHIPS Act Incentives to Accelerate U.S. Quantum and Semiconductor Manufacturing

PsiQuantum announced that the company has signed a Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $100 million in proposed federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act to advance American quantum computing and semiconductor leadership. With these potential incentives, combined with co-investment by the company, PsiQuantum will accelerate the domestic manufacturability and per...

22 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Amkor Technology Expands Arizona Semiconductor Packaging Footprint to Support U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Growth

Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR) reinforced its commitment to expanding Advanced semiconductor packaging and test capabilities in the United States through continued investment in its Arizona manufacturing footprint. Located within Peoria’s Innovation Core, Amkor’s campus is being developed on a 104-acre site designed to support large-scale, leading-edge semiconductor packaging a...

21 May 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Metallium Limited Secures U.S. Defense Contract to Advance Gallium and Germanium Recovery from Semiconductor E-Waste

Metallium Limited (ASX: MTM, OTCQX: MTMCF; OTCQX ADR: MTLMY) announced its  U.S.-based affiliate, Flash Metals Texas, Inc., has been awarded a million-dollar Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the U.S. Department of War through the Defence Logistics Agency to continue to pursue the recovery of gallium and germanium from electronic waste streams. The Ph...

21 May 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
imec Achieves World-First Quantum Dot Qubit Device Using High NA EUV Lithography

 This week at ITF World, imec, a globally recognised research and innovation centre for advanced semiconductor technologies, unveiled what it describes as a world-first achievement: a quantum dot qubit device manufactured using High NA EUV lithography. The breakthrough represents a major step towards the industrial-scale production of more reliable qubits — the fundamental computing ele...

20 May 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Sivers Semiconductors Secures $6.6 Million Extension for U.S. Electronic Warfare Program

Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE), a global leader in photonics and wireless technologies, announced a second-year extension of its Electronic Warfare (EW STAR) project from the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) Hub under the Microelectronics Commons program. The Year 2 program award totals $6.6 million, a strong recognition of Sivers' technica...

20 May 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation Expands SmartMCD Portfolio with Automotive Motor Control IC

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has begun shipping engineering samples of "TB9M040FTG," a motor control device with built-in power MOSFETs for three-phase brushless DC motor drives. The latest addition to Toshiba‘s "SmartMCD™"[1] series of motor control devices that integrates a microcontroller (MCU) and a motor driver, TB9M040FTG,...

15 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Mouser Electronics Earns TE Connectivity’s Global High Service Distributor Award for 12th Time

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, announces it has been honored for the twelfth time as the Global High Service Distributor of the Year from TE Connectivity (TE). Recognised worldwide as a leader in connectors and sensors, TE awarded Mouser this prestigious distribution accolade, also know...

14 May 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
AI Semiconductor Stocks Rally as Jensen Huang Joins Trump on China Visit

AI-related semiconductor stocks rallied again on Wednesday after Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang joined former US President Donald Trump during a prominent visit to China. Investors viewed the development as a positive indication for future discussions surrounding trade and technology cooperation between the United States and China. The surge in chip shares was also driven b...

14 May 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Sean Dougherty of Everspin Technologies on Strengthening Defense and Aerospace Systems with Advanced MRAM Solutions

In this interview with Semicon Leaders Asia, Sean Dougherty, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Everspin Technologies, discusses how advanced Toggle MRAM technology is enabling resilient, high-performance memory solutions for next-generation defense and aerospace applications while strengthening trusted domestic semiconductor manufacturing capabilities   What does this agreement repr...

14 May 2026 | Thursday | Interaction
Named Global e-Commerce Partner of the Year by Diotec Semiconductor

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorised global distributor with the newest electronic components and industrial automation products, announces that it has been named the Global e-Commerce Partner of the Year for 2025 by Diotec Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of diodes, transistors, MOSFETs, and voltage regulators for automotive, commercial, and industrial-grade applications. The award ...

8 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Liftr Insights Launches Predictive AI Scorecard for Hedge Funds and Semiconductor Markets

Liftr Insights announces the release of the Liftr® Indicator Scorecard™, a next-generation market intelligence index. This unique tool will fundamentally change how hedge funds and financial services firms identify, evaluate, and act on emerging signals across semiconductors, cloud providers, and AI infrastructure. The Indicator Scorecard introduces a scoring-based framew...

8 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SPARK Microsystems Wins Semiconductor Innovation Award for LE-UWB Transceiver

SPARK Microsystems, a Canadian fabless semiconductor company specialising in next-generation short-range wireless communications, announced that its SR1120 LE-UWB™ wireless transceiver has been honoured as a recipient of the Product Innovation Award in conjunction with the Semiconductor Achievement Awards hosted by Canada's Semiconductor Council (CSC). Presented last night at the&...

8 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Siemens Invests $1 Billion in U.S. Manufacturing

Siemens announced it has reached $1 billion in domestic manufacturing investments to support American industry, infrastructure and transportation over the past five years. These projects, coming online throughout 2026 and spanning industries and communities across the U.S., strengthen domestic manufacturing for local demand, bolster American supply chains and create well-paying manufacturing jobs....

5 May 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Everspin Secures $40M Defense Contract for MRAM Technology

Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) persistent memory solutions, announced an agreement with a U.S. prime contractor to provide state-of-the-art Toggle MRAM process technology capabilities and engineering services for United States Defense Industrial Base customers. “This work builds...

4 May 2026 | Monday | NEWS
MaxLinear Launches 200G/Lane TIA for 1.6T Data Centers

MaxLinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a leading provider of high‑speed interconnect ICs for data centre, metro, and wireless transport networks,  announced the availability of its Washington TIA, a four-lane, 200G/lane transimpedance amplifier designed for 1.6T optical transceiver modules for AI data centre applications. As hyperscale data centres scale bandwidth and reach to support larger AI clu...

1 May 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Artemis Acquires Optikos Corporation to Accelerate Growth in Advanced Optical Engineering

Optikos® Corporation, a provider of engineering, manufacturing, and metrology expertise in optical systems, is joining forces with Artemis, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on scaling high-impact industrial tech. Through this acquisition, Artemis will provide the strategic support necessary to supercharge the engineering and manufacturing capabilities of Optikos. Through th...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
FPT Corporation and Intel Corporation Partner to Accelerate AI-Driven Factory Optimisation

FPT and Intel, a global leader in semiconductor and AI technologies, announced a strategic relationship to deliver an end-to-end AI-driven factory optimisation solution. Powered by AI, simulation, and digital manufacturing technologies, the collaboration aims to reduce bottlenecks, accelerate decision-making and improve downtime recovery, facilitating the sector’s transition towards AI-drive...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Kyocera Corporation Launches Ceramic Core Substrate for Next-Generation AI Semiconductor Packaging

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 ...

29 Apr 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
MetOx International Appoints Semiconductor Veteran Richard (Rick) Gottscho to Board

MetOx International — MetOx, a leading U.S. manufacturer of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire, announced the appointment of Dr. Richard (Rick) Gottscho to its Board of Directors. A globally recognised leader in semiconductor manufacturing and plasma science, Rick brings decades of experience scaling the technologies that underpin the modern digital economy. His addition comes...

24 Apr 2026 | Friday | NEWS

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