Semi. Fabs and Clean Rooms -2½h ago: Recent posts show India’s semiconductor expansion accelerating with three facilities now in commercial production and exports underway, while 12 projects worth over ₹1.64 lakh crore approved. TSMC is rushing CAP7 and Nanke AP8 cleanrooms plus advanced packaging facilities, scaling capacity toward 20k wafers/month by year-end for NVIDIA demand. Samsung C&T reported strong fab construction earnings, though cleanroom availability is emerging as a key constraint.
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Scanning for Lifesigns with ESP32 and Raspberry Pi - It’s a sci-fi trope that you can ‘scan for life signs’ and detect if there are humans — or suspiciously human-shaped aliens — present, but in real life it’s harder …read more
China Aid for Key Sectors Can Feed Trade Tensions, ECB Blog Says - Chinese subsidies for strategic industries are boosting exports in those areas, according to European Central Bank research that adds to an intensifying debate among the region’s policymakers about such practices.
Situational Awareness Boosted Micron, Sandisk Ahead of Turmoil - Situational Awareness increased its exposure to semiconductor firms Micron Technology Inc. and Sandisk Corp. in the second quarter, while the hedge fund cut options positions against Nvidia Corp., Broadcom Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Scientists Steer Infrared Light Through an “Invisible” Waveguide - The discovery could advance integrated photonics, on-chip optical signal transmission, and future quantum technologies. A nanoscale gold antenna placed on a crystal can send infrared light along one narrow route, even though no physical waveguide has been carved into the material. Researchers at the 4th...
Marc Eichhorn Joins Fraunhofer IOSB: People in the News: 8/12/26 - Marc Eichhorn has joined the management team of the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies, and Image Exploitation (IOSB). He will co-lead Fraunhofer IOSB alongside executive director Jürgen Beyerer. According to Fraunhofer...
Standards and AI will shape-shift EDA - As AI and machine learning are getting more and more integrated into the EDA workflows, there are new challenges emerging around areas such as interoperability, data exchange, trust, and reproducibility. […] The post Standards and AI will shape-shift EDA appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Kim Min-seok Secures Honam Majority, Narrow Capital Win - said, “Party members resonated more with Kim’s stance of stabilizing relations between the party and the administration to support policies of the Lee Jae Myung administration, such as the Honam Semiconductor
RISC-V : What Really Matters - Readers may have seen the recent post from Dmitri Grinberg RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better which sets out, at some length, his criticisms of the ISA.
Jeju Semiconductor Second-Quarter Operating Profit Jumps 2,745% - Jeju Semiconductor Corp. reported second-quarter revenue of about 290 billion won and operating profit of about 120 billion won. The figures increased about 467% and 2,745%, respectively, from a year earlier. The company’s official English name is Jeju Semiconductor Corp.According to Jeju Semiconduc...
Huawei Pura 90 Pro Max (SCA-AL00) Deep Dive Teardown - The Huawei Pura 90 Pro Max is a high-end mobile purchased from the Chinese market. The Huawei Pura 90 Pro Max is designed with a Kirin 9030S. The Huawei Pura 90 Pro Max features a 200 MP Periscope camera with a 1/1.28" sensor. A Deep Dive report is a detailed product disassembly analysis that examines...
TIER IV Joins JST’s Next-Generation Edge AI Semiconductor R&D Program - TIER IV has joined the Next-Generation Edge AI Semiconductor Research and Development Program led by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to advance research and development of a software-defined system-on-chip (SoC) for Level 4 autonomous driving. The post TIER IV Joins JST’s Next-Generation...
Six Five Pod Ep. 314: TeraFab, Memory's Comeback, and the Custom Silicon Debate - Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman cover Tesla and SpaceX's $16.8 billion TerraFab chip factory, Samsung's zHBM debut at FMS 2026, a week of frontier model launches, and a simulated debate for “The Flip” over whether custom silicon will capture the majority of AI workload dollars by 2028. The episode...
SPIE Accepting Applicants for 2027 SPIE Startup Challenge: Week in Brief: 8/14/26 - Sivers Semiconductors, a provider of photonics and wireless technologies, and SemiNex Corporation, a laser technology developer, established a program for next-generation indium-phosphide (InP) light sources for AI data center interconnects. The...
Secrets of oscilloscope time measurements - Oscilloscopes utilize both hardware and software to enhance time measurement resolution. Happily, most of the processing is transparent. The post Secrets of oscilloscope time measurements appeared first on EDN .
AI product cycle lifts Chroma test demand - AI is sharply increasing demand for test and measurement equipment, turning it from a cost-cutting support tool into a must-have, said Chroma president I-Shih Tseng. He said he expects the industry boom to outlast a short-term investment wave and that second-half 2026 operations will outperform the first...
Semiconductor Failure Analysis Labs by Equipment & Technique - Finding the right semiconductor failure analysis lab often depends less on the laboratory’s name and more on whether it has the equipment and technical expertise required for your specific failure. A package delamination problem may require Scanning Acoustic Microscopy. A suspected interconnect defect...
Build Your Own DRAM Supply Model - Wafer starts, die size, yield, HBM mix, node migration impacts, etc. Simple enough to follow, but detailed enough to learn from.
Technical Report: OmniVision OV52A Exploratory Analysis - This report presents a Device Essentials Plus (DEP) exploratory analysis of the OmniVision OV52A CMOS image sensor (CIS) extracted from the OPPO Find X9 Ultra rear periscope-telephoto camera. The OV52A is a 200 MP resolution, 0.61 µm pixel pitch, stacked back-illuminated (BI) CIS for mobile applications....
Sunlight-Driven Quantum Entanglement Offers Alternative to Laser Sources - For the first time, researchers showed that solar light can be used to generate quantum-entangled photon pairs. The proof-of-principle demonstration challenges the long-held scientific belief that lasers provide the only suitable light source for...
X-Ray Inspection for Semiconductor Package Failure Analysis - Many important semiconductor package defects are completely hidden from optical inspection. A solder ball can contain a void. A bond wire can be broken inside an encapsulated package. A die-attach layer may contain large areas of voiding. A package substrate can contain an open trace, and an advanced...
A 0.42-Nanometer Breakthrough From TSMC Could Push Transistors Beyond Silicon - Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and TSMC Corporate Research engineered a 0.42-nanometer aluminum-oxide interface that protects electron transport in monolayer MoS₂ transistors while enabling strong gate control.
