Elmos: Impressive start to year 2026 – guidance raised - Sales increase to 152.5 million Euro in the first quarter, up 20.2% year-on-year, EBIT margin improves to 23.8% and adjusted free cash flow reaches a strong 26.7% of sales
Delta Electronics' security tie-up positions it to push into integrated smart buildings - Delta Electronics has moved to consolidate its security brands, aiming to align AI video analytics and cloud services with its building automation strategy. This shift could accelerate its push into the growing smart building market. The integration brings together VIVOTEK and March Networks to jointly...
AI-powered lab discovers brighter lead-free nanomaterials in 12 hours - A new autonomous laboratory recently navigated through billions of potential material synthesis recipes to identify brighter, lead-free light-emitting nanomaterials in just 12 hours. The work could accelerate development ...
Quantum Breakthrough: New Algorithm Solves “Impossible” Materials in Seconds - A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach. Quantum technologies, including quantum computers, rely on materials that display unusual quantum effects...
Fuzehub News Release: U.S. Semiconductor Industry Convenes at Glass4Chips Summit on May 14-15 - Gathering in Albany, New York, one of the nation’s rising semiconductor innovation hubs, industry leaders will explore glass substrates as a next-generation material in chips packaging Hosted by FuzeHub in collaboration with NY Creates, SEMI and IEEE Electronics Packaging Society, the summit’s registration...
[News] Intel’s EMIB Reportedly Gains Traction at Google, Meta; Yields Said to Reach ~90% Milestone - Intel’s leading-edge nodes, spearheaded by 18A, are gradually building momentum, while its advanced packaging portfolio is also showing clear traction. According to Wccftech, Intel’s EMIB (Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge) has reached 90% yield levels, with Google and Meta Platforms emergi......
IBM Study: CEOs are Reshaping C-suite Roles for the AI Era - A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value finds that the accelerating pace of AI is pushing CEOs to redesign how C-suite roles are structured to drive greater business impact across the enterprise.
Applied Materials Broadens Advanced Packaging Portfolio with Acquisition of NEXX - SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Materials, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with ASMPT Limited (HKEX: 0522) to acquire its NEXX business, a leading supplier of large-area advanced packaging deposition equipment for the semiconductor
Research Bits: May 5 - AI power prediction; large-area FPCBs; graphene vibrations. The post Research Bits: May 5 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Powering 160,000 hours of discovery at MIT.nano - NanoFab Equipment Management and Operations (NEMO) system streamlines shared facilities management via tool trainings, reservations, and lab communications.
Sterling Reports Record First Quarter Results and Raises Full Year 2026 Guidance - visibility into future growth. Notably, during the quarter, we were awarded the initial phase of site development work for a large, multi-year semiconductor fabrication campus. Additionally, CEC was awarded several large projects that contributed to a $1.2 billion increase in its combined backlog during...
AI drives photonics innovation - Photonics is rapidly becoming a key technology for AI in the datacentre. Using light to connect chiplets and memory can…
BYD supercar coming to UK - Coming to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July for it’s European debut is this 1,000-plus-horsepower supercar from BYD dubbed the Denza Z. It claims to hit 100 km/h in less than two seconds and to recharge in under ten minutes.s. Its second-gen Blade Battery and Flash Charging system claims to charge...
Asia Optical 1Q26 revenue, profit hit record highs on AI cooling and optics growth - Asia Optical reported its first-quarter 2026 financial results, posting consolidated revenue of NT$6.21 billion (approx. US$196.43 million), up 15% year-over-year. Gross profit rose 16% from a year earlier to NT$1.07 billion, while operating income increased 58% from the first quarter of 2025 to NT$482...
CEO Interview with Geoffrey Rodgers of Chameleon Semiconductor - Geoffrey Rodgers spent most of his career at the intersection of semiconductor technology and go-to-market execution, with a focus on scaling businesses and bringing complex solutions to market. He previously led the Analog Go-To-Market motion at Synopsys following the acquisition of Analog Design Automation...
The Next Phase of Europe’s Semiconductor Strategy - Europe’s semiconductor future will hinge on aligning geopolitics and industrial strengths into a coherent, long-term strategy. The post The Next Phase of Europe’s Semiconductor Strategy appeared first on EE Times .
ST sees orbiting datacentres as a possibility by 2029 - ST says orbiting datacentres could be operating in three years time. “My wild guess as to when we could start to see, a relevant amount of orbital data centres in the sky, I would say three years from now would be maybe an interesting guess,” says Remi El-Ouazzane, President of the Microcontrollers,...
Advancing Smart Car Access with High-Performance Secure Elements - The rapid shift toward smart car access has redefined how drivers interact with their vehicles. As the Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) Digital Key specifications mature, gain traction and are rapidly adopted in the market, the automotive ecosystem increasingly relies on Secure Elements (SE).
Connecting the Dots: Why RISC-V System Design Is Entering a New Era - At the recent RISC-V Now event hosted by Andes, the discussion underscored the fact that RISC-V is no longer just about instruction set architecture advantages or customizable cores. The real focus has moved up the stack to system-level design. This is where connectivity, integration, and security define...
KYOCERA AVX RELEASES MULTILAYER VARISTORS OPTIMIZED FOR 48V AUTOMOTIVE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS - and transportation power suppliesTransGuard VT Series high-temperature, automotive-grade MLVs are zinc-oxide-based (ZnO-based) ceramic semiconductor devices that combine extremely reliable bidirectional overvoltage protection and EMI/RFI attenuation capabilities in compact, SMT packages that
The Blue (now Logitech) Snowball iCE: This mic sounds nice - This audio-capture computer peripheral contains an integrated-transistor pickup capsule and a hunk of metal. The post The Blue (now Logitech) Snowball iCE: This mic sounds nice appeared first on EDN .
From building software to building learning systems - Organizations that take this transition seriously won’t simply have better features; they’ll have a compounding structural advantage that widens with every deployment cycle.
Designing Chips In The Context Of Rapidly Evolving AI - Long‑running agents, tool-calling LLMs, and multimodal chaos are rewriting edge compute rules, and making chip design more challenging. The post Designing Chips In The Context Of Rapidly Evolving AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Stretching Diamonds Unlocks Powerful New Quantum Sensing Abilities - A subtle mechanical adjustment reveals a powerful way to control the quantum behavior of embedded defects. Researchers have identified a new method to control the quantum behavior of tiny imperfections in diamond by gently stretching or compressing the crystal. This approach could lead to a new generation...
