Semi. Fabs and Clean Rooms 4¼h ago: The semiconductor industry is experiencing accelerated fab construction and cleanroom expansions worldwide, fueled primarily by surging AI demand. TSMC is aggressively expanding capacity across Arizona, Texas, Japan, and Germany while reporting strong September sales, with CoWoS packaging capacity growing faster than expected. SK hynix is speeding up memory fab builds, India’s Tata Dholera project is advancing to cleanroom fit-out with trial production targeted for December 2026, and Chinese equipment makers are benefiting from localized fab growth. Yield and testing bottlenecks are emerging as key concerns amid rising complexity from advanced nodes and AI chips.
Chips&Media targets AI memory bottlenecks with new compression IP - Chips&Media has announced a data compression technology aimed at one of the constraints in artificial intelligence hardware: moving data fast enough to keep processors busy. The South Korean semiconductor intellectual property supplier says its new Feature Map Compression IP marks an expansion beyond...
The secret life of ferrite bead: More than just a lump on a wire - A ferrite bead isn’t just a mysterious black cylinder; it can be an engineer's secret weapon for turning pesky high-frequency noise into harmless heat. The post The secret life of ferrite bead: More than just a lump on a wire appeared first on EDN .
Microsoft's Maia 300 rack: 96 accelerators, HBM4, mostly liquid-cooled - Microsoft has released architecture details for Maia 300, its third-generation Azure AI accelerator. The design pairs 96 accelerators per rack with a two-tier network that links up to 12,288 accelerators into a single superpod. The company says the system is built for cloud-scale agentic inference, and...
Security Becomes a Sign-off Item - Europe’s CRA turns chip security into auditable sign-off, pushing silicon teams to prove resilience before 2027. The post Security Becomes a Sign-off Item appeared first on EE Times .
Littelfuse Announces Retirement of the EZ80 - Although the demise of the Zilog Z80 processor has long been predicted, it would seem that this moment has finally arrived. The owner of the Zilog name – Littelfuse – …read more
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Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation - Applied Materials’ $5 billion EPIC Center brings chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and researchers together to accelerate semiconductor R&D and commercialization. The post Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation appeared first on EE Times .
Unpacking Marvell's Analyst Day, OpenAI Revenue Rumors, and the Heterogeneous Rack - In this episode of The Circuit, Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg kick off a packed conference week (Semicon West, Applied Materials' EPIC Center launch, and the sold-out OCP Summit) before diving into Marvell's upbeat Analyst Day in New York. They examine how Marvell has shifted its narrative beyond Amazon...
Gadget Watch: Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5 - Thanks to the Raspberry Pi team highlighting this one: the Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, a third-party AI accelerator board built around the DEEPX DX-M1M NPU. The post Gadget Watch: Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5 appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Windows Goes Hybrid, Marvell’s $90B Target, and the AI Routing Race | The Six Five Pod Ep. 323 - On Episode 323 of The Six Five Pod, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the biggest stories from the week, including Microsoft and NVIDIA’s hybrid intelligence push for Windows, Marvell’s Investor Day, new models from Anthropic, Mistral, and Reflection, the AI labs’ accountability hearings...
How 'Filter Moore's Law' is doubling revenue for a Taiwan chip filter maker - Under what the industry terms the "Filter Moore's Law," each process node shrink lowers tolerance for airborne molecular contaminants, causing filtration demand to grow exponentially. For global airborne molecular contamination (AMC) filtration leader Ye Siang Enterprise, that demand is now showing up...
UK’s Drone Test Centre gets new NADIC facility - The UK’s Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC) – at Westcott Venture Park near Aylesbury – is getting a new facility dubbed the National Autonomy and Drone Innovation Centre (NADIC). […] The post UK’s Drone Test Centre gets new NADIC facility appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
MediaTek flagship AP share to surpass Samsung as TSMC boosts Dimensity - As the global smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) market contracts, competition in the high-end application processor (AP) segment is intensifying. MediaTek is accelerating its push into the flagship market, putting greater pressure on Samsung Electronics, which is promoting 2-nanometer Exynos chips.
Lee Jae Myung was favored by fate. Why fear life after office? - Lee Jae Myung was favored by fate. Why fear life after office? President Lee should abandon efforts to withdraw charges and govern as a leader who unites Korea. 10/11/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk
Jury still out in Qualcomm vs Arm case - After four hours deliberation yesterday the jury failed to come to a conclusion in the Qualcomm versus Arm law case. It will reassemble to continue is deliberations on Tuesday. The […] The post Jury still out in Qualcomm vs Arm case appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
CTO Interview with Dr. Zakir Syed of ClockEdge - Dr. Zakir Syed is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of ClockEdge, where he has played a central role in developing specialized simulation technology for advanced semiconductor clock networks. He brings more than 30 years of experience in electronic design automation and semiconductor verification....
Kim Dong-seon to Become Hanwha M&S Largest Shareholder - In August, Hanwha Group spun off Hanwha Corporation to separate its distribution, hotel, and food (lifestyle) businesses from its robotics and semiconductor equipment (tech) sectors, establishing Hanwha
Meet the modders porting ringfenced DLSS features to older GPUs - DLSS Multi-Frame Generation and DLSS 5 Neural Rendering can now run on hardware never intended for it, at least according to Nvidia. Now, two of the modders foundational to the release of these community advancements speak out.
Startup Funding: Q3 2026 - 80 startups raised $8.5B in Q3, with big hauls by companies tackling data movement and memory. The post Startup Funding: Q3 2026 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Rapidus Launches CORE Ecosystem to Support 2nm Chip Development and Manufacturing - As part of its first phase, Rapidus announced the formation of Design Solution Associates to help customers support early-stage design for Rapidus’ advanced 2nm semiconductor foundry. The post Rapidus Launches CORE Ecosystem to Support 2nm Chip Development and Manufacturing appeared first on Semiconductor...
Hyper-NA EUV: The Next Frontier in Chipmaking Could Arrive in 2036 - EUV has long been an interesting story. We have written 200+ articles on EUV and they just keep on coming. Thankfully the premier lithography conference is right here in Silicon Valley. SPIE began in 1955 as the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, bringing together engineers using scientific...
