Semi. Fabs and Clean Rooms 43m ago: Semiconductor fab construction, cleanroom expansions, capacity updates, and yield improvements are driving massive industry growth, particularly in the US with Arizona as a standout hub. Over 70 expansions since 2020 totaling $319B. TSMC committed $265B for 10 fabs in Phoenix. Global 300mm fab equipment spending projected at $149B in 2026 rising to $227B in 2029. Samsung and SK Hynix upgrading China plants.
Old LCD plants are back in business — this time for AI - Old LCD plants are back in business — this time for AI Once-idle display factories are being converted into semiconductor packaging lines and AI data centers as companies seek to expand operations quickly. 10/21/2026 - 06:00 PM News Team
Taiwan tech supply chain eyes Texas for first US industrial cluster - As Taiwan and the US deepen supply chain localization efforts, concrete plans for Taiwan's electrical and electronics industries to establish US industrial parks are rapidly taking shape. Minister of Economic Affairs Ming-Hsin Kung recently revealed in an interview with foreign media that Taiwan plans...
STMicroelectronics Adds MasterGaN7 Devices to Integrated High-Efficiency Power Family - STMicroelectronics has extended its MasterGaN integrated transistor/driver family with new MasterGaN7 devices that contain 650V enhancement-mode GaN transistors with 6A maximum current rating. The post STMicroelectronics Adds MasterGaN7 Devices to Integrated High-Efficiency Power Family appeared first...
Why France is burning - Why France is burning France’s current unrest exposes how decades of deficit spending can leave future generations carrying an unbearable fiscal burden. 10/21/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk
Littelfuse automotive TVS diodes deliver low, flat-clamping voltage - Littelfuse is launching its TP7.0SMD-XC series of automotive TVS (transient voltage suppression) diodes. The surface-mount parts delivers 7000 W peak pulse power and a low, flat-clamping voltage to protect sensitive […] The post Littelfuse automotive TVS diodes deliver low, flat-clamping voltage appeared...
STL expands fiber trunk portfolio for AI data centers - STL (Sterlite Technologies) has expanded its Neuralis Data Center portfolio with pre-terminated fiber trunk assemblies supporting fiber counts from 48 to 6,912. The new high-density cabling solutions are…
Exports double in 1st 20 days of October on robust chip shipments - Exports double in 1st 20 days of October on robust chip shipments Korea’s exports more than doubled in the first 20 days of October, driven by a record surge in semiconductor shipments. 10/20/2026 - 09:42 PM
AMEC seeks South Korean foothold through MOCVD trials with SK Keyfoundry, Magnachip - AMEC is seeking an entry into South Korea's power semiconductor market through MOCVD equipment trials with SK Keyfoundry and Magnachip. The Chinese equipment supplier holds a large share of its domestic MOCVD market but remains unable to supply Samsung Electronics' and SK Hynix's South Korean fabs.
Google and Synaptics launch xMCUs - Synaptics and Google have introduced the xMCU – an MCU that combines heterogeneous, AI-native compute and acceleration with integrated high-bandwidth custom DRAM scalable to hundreds of megabytes, enabling larger AI […] The post Google and Synaptics launch xMCUs appeared first on Electronics Weekly...
Innovasea Packs Long-Life Electronics into Fish Tags - A company on Canada’s east coast is pushing acoustic telemetry toward lighter payloads and decade-scale deployments by treating energy, sensing, and animal welfare as a single systems problem. The post Innovasea Packs Long-Life Electronics into Fish Tags appeared first on EE Times .
Innodisk’s DDR5 8000 RDIMM addresses edge AI - Innodisk is expanding its DDR5 portfolio with 8000 RDIMM for compute-intensive applications, such as edge AI and enterprise servers. As the name indicates, the modules deliver data transfer speeds of […] The post Innodisk’s DDR5 8000 RDIMM addresses edge AI appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Korea cannot dismiss the despair of French youth (KOR) - Korea cannot dismiss the despair of French youth (KOR) France’s economic strain and anger among the youth at its entrenched system should serve as a clear warning for Korea to diversify growth, create jobs and make housing more affordable. 10/19/2026 - 08:26 PM Opinion Desk
Perché proprio il carburo di silicio (SiC)? - La specifica di Google, Microsoft e NVIDIA non impone nessuna tecnologia. Ma tre formule spiegano perché, oggi, i suoi numeri portano al SiC.
Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 20 - HBM power consumption; GAAFET leakage pathways; agentic AI for heterogeneous system design; nanoelectromechanical gain-cell eDRAM; AI-accelerated 3D-IC thermal modeling; agentic AI for RTL verification and debugging; thermal side-channel attacks in autonomous vehicles. The post Chip Industry Technical...
Building Physical AI Systems That Can Work in the Real World - Build scalable physical AI by balancing compute, power, safety, and cost—see why system architecture outperforms raw model size. The post Building Physical AI Systems That Can Work in the Real World appeared first on EE Times .
Privacy-Preserving Robust Monitoring of Dense-Time Temporal Logic - …monitoring. In a number of system testing scenarios, the designer and the tester are separate parties. This testing-as-a-service model is common in software, avionics, and semiconductors , and is growing in importance in the red-teaming of machine learning models. In such a model, the designer seeks...
Forgotten Material From the 1960s Is Hiding Something Unexpected - A long-overlooked material has revealed a hidden atomic pattern that challenges conventional expectations about magnetism. A uranium compound that has received little scientific attention for decades has been found to contain a previously unknown atomic structure with unusual magnetic properties. The...
AI Infrastructure for 2027: The Data and Orchestration Layers Agentic AI Needs - Futurum Research finds enterprise agentic AI adoption leveling off at 47%, and nearly half of enterprises running AI spend over budget. Drawing on a year of Six Five conversations, Futurum, and Moor Insights & Strategy research, here is the agentic AI data stack, MCP/A2A orchestration, and governance...
E Ink and FUJIFILM Imaging Systems Partner to Expand Large-Format Color ePaper Signage - E Ink announced a partnership with FUJIFILM Imaging Systems Co., Ltd. to establish a large-format color ePaper signage business, initially targeting the railway sector. Upon successful completion of prototype assessments, the companies will begin introducing select sizes in 2027.
World Photonics Day - Innovation World Photonics Day How Seagate uses photonics and HAMR technology to advance mass-capacity data storage.
MCUs accelerate multimodal edge AI - The Synaptics Astra SR200 series of xMCUs runs multimodal AI workloads without the memory and compute limitations of conventional MCUs. The post MCUs accelerate multimodal edge AI appeared first on EDN .
Micron reaches deal with Taiwan union to introduce quarterly profit bonuses in FY27 - Micron Technology's labor dispute in Taiwan appears set for resolution after its Taichung union signed a labor-management agreement with the company and withdrew from the mediation session scheduled for October 22. According to an internal email circulated by employees, Micron will introduce quarterly...
OMRON Acquires Industrial Computing Firm OnLogic for $675M - OMRON AUTOMATION, an industrial automation company, acquired OnLogic, an industrial automation company. By combining OnLogic’s industrial computing expertise with OMRON’s proven automation solutions, the two companies can help customers...
Corporate profits and debts improve in 2025: BOK - Corporate profits and debts improve in 2025: BOK The ratio of local firms' combined operating profits to sales stood at 5.2 percent last year, the highest figure since 2021, while the firms' average debt-to-equity ratio stood at 116.2 percent last year, the lowest since 2019. 10/21/2026 - 01:19 AM 박상수...
Edge AI MCU Features Multimodal Compute, Tiered Memory - A new MCU combines AI-native acceleration with integrated high-bandwidth DRAM scalable to hundreds of megabytes. The post Edge AI MCU Features Multimodal Compute, Tiered Memory appeared first on EE Times .
How Singapore Connects Chip Research, Startups, and Manufacturing - From SiC power devices to silicon photonics, Singapore is building the infrastructure and industrial partnerships needed to bring deep-tech research to market. The post How Singapore Connects Chip Research, Startups, and Manufacturing appeared first on EE Times .
Tenstorrent Series E raises $1.5bn - Tenstorrent, the AI chips-to-computers manufacturer , has raised $1.5 billion in Series E round at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, […] The post Tenstorrent Series E raises $1.5bn appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Good Golly It’s MOLY - 65 years ago this ad for TI diodes packaged using its Molybdenum Glass hermetic seal technique appeared in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 3 1961: The post Good Golly It’s MOLY appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
HANMI Semiconductor Opens HANMI USA - HANMI Semiconductor today announced that it has opened U.S. subsidiary HANMI USA, a major step in expanding its presence in the U.S. semiconductor market. The post HANMI Semiconductor Opens HANMI USA appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .
WFE to the Moon (Still), Semicon West and OCP Insights - In this action-packed episode of The Circuit, Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg recap a hectic week in Silicon Valley, spanning Semicon West in San Francisco, the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose, and major analyst events. The hosts examine the evolving semicap and wafer equipment landscape—including...
Video Interview: Applied Materials CEO on the Economics Behind Its $5B EPIC Bet - Following the unveiling of its EPIC Center, Applied Materials revealed strong financial projections. We look at how it all ties together and feature a new video interview with CEO Gary Dickerson. The post Video Interview: Applied Materials CEO on the Economics Behind Its $5B EPIC Bet appeared first on...
Carbon Capture Scratching The Surface - According to the Global Status of CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) report, there are currently 132 commercial CCS projects in operation around the world. Together, these facilities are capable of […] The post Carbon Capture Scratching The Surface appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
The Huawei-DeepSeek Symbiosis - Huawei Ascend 950PR Deep dive & µbenchmarks, DSv4.1 Flash Analysis, DeepSeek support for Ascend, AICPU, Tilelang Ascend
Optics Primer, Part 4: Coherent Optics - How amplitude, phase and polarization carry data hundreds of kilometers, why that costs more than the optics inside a data center, and where…
Arteris FlexGen Opens Up Multi-Die Traffic Management for Non-Coherent Networks - Last year I wrote about Arteris’ introduction of multi-die support for coherent NoCs . This is a very big deal because hyperscalers and OEMs are now building large systems that depend on multi-chiplet architectures and require efficient traffic management between chiplets, in one case as many as 12...
India’s OSAT Buildout Puts Semiconductor Testing in Focus - NI said Kaynes Semicon has selected its semiconductor test systems, while other Indian OSATs continue to evaluate equipment as manufacturers prepare for production. The post India’s OSAT Buildout Puts Semiconductor Testing in Focus appeared first on EE Times .
Did You Miss a SEMICON West Show Daily? - Three days, one industry, and a lot happening on the show floor. If you couldn’t keep up with everything at SEMICON West’s San Francisco return, our Show Daily editions have the news, insights, and announcements you need. The post Did You Miss a SEMICON West Show Daily? appeared first on Semiconductor...
TIAMA Appoints Managing Director: People in the News: 10/21/26 - Laser Photonics Corporation appointed Dmitri Nikitin, the company's founder, as executive chairman and principal executive officer, and named Tim Peterman CFO. Nikitin has more than 35 years of experience in laser technology innovation, including at...
Nanocrystalline cubic boron arsenide growth on GaAs(100) by gas source molecular beam epitaxy - Cubic boron arsenide (c-BAs) is a promising ultrahigh thermal conductivity semiconductor , but its direct synthesis on lattice-mismatched substrates remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate the synthesis of nanocrystalline c-BAs thin films on GaAs(100) substrates using gas source molecular beam epitaxy....
NTT Consortium Developing Mass-Production Tech for Optical Chiplets - The participating companies will jointly develop mass-production technologies for optical chiplets, with NTT serving as an advisor. The post NTT Consortium Developing Mass-Production Tech for Optical Chiplets appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .
The Industry Challenge: AI Is Forcing Semiconductor Innovation Beyond the Chip - Applied Materials President and CEO Gary Dickerson with the EPIC Center founding partners on October 12, 2026, in Sunnyvale, CA. (Tomas Ovalle/AP Content Services for Applied Materials, Inc.) The bottlenecks are becoming interconnected
Trumpf seeks cost reductions for EUV power supplies in Poland, not Asia - Trumpf is under strong pressure from ASML to reduce costs. The German family-owned company is now transferring series production of power supplies from Freiburg to Warsaw, Poland. EUV drive lasers will also benefit from these savings. Trumpf considers production in Asia too risky.
Automotive sensor power supply without a switching pre-regulator - An automotive sensor power supply appears deceptively simple to design but in fact poses many formidable challenges. The post Automotive sensor power supply without a switching pre-regulator appeared first on EDN .
Asian Stocks Shrug Off US Chip Rally, Oil Steadies - Asian stocks opened lower Tuesday, shrugging off a chip-led rebound on Wall Street that helped the Nasdaq 100 recover from its worst week since the tariff turmoil of April 2025.
