Product Roundup: May 2026 - Microchip's Product Roundup features a selection of our latest products, reference designs and software solutions. Explore how these innovative technologies can elevate your next design project.
RISC-V Market worth $4.85 billion by 2032 - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets™ - global investments in semiconductor sovereignty and reduced dependence on proprietary processor ecosystems such as ARM and x86. Governments and enterprises across China, India, and other countries are actively promoting open hardware initiatives to strengthen domestic semiconductor capabilities. This...
PCIe-based Switching for AI Scale-up Networks - Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)® is the world’s most popular interconnect for connections between chips in a shared system, while ensuring low latency, and it is well suited to be deployed for the scale-up domain. Scale-up networks extend across racks and possess hundreds of processors;...
MLX81119 integrates on-chip DC/DC power with LIN RGB automotive lighting - For the automotive market, Melexis is releasing the MLX81119, an 18-channel LIN RGB LED controller with an integrated 1A DC/DC converter. The latter generates an optimised local LED supply voltage that is programmable between 2.5 V and 6 V. Example applications include in dashboards and door trim parts,...
Intel's foundry reset: 14A, 10A and tougher engineering rules - Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is reshaping the chipmaker's engineering culture and foundry strategy, confirming that 14A remains on track while revealing that early development has begun on next-generation 10A and 7A nodes.
Lam Research Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend - Directors.About Lam Research:Lam Research Corporation is a global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry. Lam's equipment and services allow customers to build smaller and better performing devices. In fact, today, nearly every advanced chip
Semiconductors Historic Start to 2026 - The global semiconductor market grew 25% in the 1st quarter of 2026 from the 4th quarter of 2025 to reach $299 billion, according to WSTS. The 1st quarter of 2026 was up 79% from a year earlier. The 25% quarter-to-quarter growth was the highest in the over 40-year history of… Read more “Semiconductors...
ASIC Design Services for Startups | From Idea to Silicon - Launching a hardware startup is difficult. Launching a semiconductor startup is even more complex. Unlike software, where products can be tested, fixed and released quickly, an ASIC project requires careful planning, strong technical execution and the right partners from the very beginning. One mistake...
AMD commits over US$10 billion to Taiwan ecosystem to expand AI packaging and infrastructure capacity - AMD said on May 21 that it plans to invest more than US$10 billion across Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem to deepen strategic partnerships and expand advanced packaging capacity for next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The initiative aims to strengthen manufacturing capabilities,...
Scaling the Next Generation of Multi-Die Systems - This year’s EE Times Chiplets event will address challenges in the design flow and chiplet technologies to enable straightforward scaling. The post Scaling the Next Generation of Multi-Die Systems appeared first on EE Times .
CXMT IPO puts China's DRAM supply-chain push in focus - CXMT's planned Shanghai listing is becoming more than a test of investor appetite for China's top DRAM maker. It is also putting a spotlight on whether the company's next phase of expansion can accelerate China's push to localize semiconductor equipment and materials.
Thermal Reliability and Robustness of CMOS-Compatible GaN-on-Si MIS-HEMTs Under High-Temperature Stress - The continued evolution of semiconductor technologies has created a growing demand for devices capable of operating reliably under extreme conditions, particularly high temperatures. Among the most promising candidates for such applications are gallium nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility transistors...
Micron Advances Made-in-America Memory With Manufacturing Expansion in Virginia - News highlights: Micron starts manufacturing of 1α (1-alpha) DRAM, the most advanced memory ever produced in the United States, at its Manassas, Virginia, fab, supporting American memory production for critical industries including automotive, defense and aerospace, industrial, networking and
Qualcomm adds ADAS to cockpit/connectivity supply deal with Stellantis - Qualcomm and Stellantis are extending their chip supply deal beyond cockpit and connectivity to ADAS with Snapdragon Ride Pilot enabling Level 2+ ADAS. The move integrates Snapdragon Digital Chassis chipsets with STLA Brain, Stellantis’ systems platform. This should accelerate time to market and enable...
Infineon-led European project Moore4Power launches - ‘More than Moore for Disruptive Innovations in Power Electronics’ to combine silicon, SiC and GaN with sensing, control and communication functions in heterogeneously integrated system
Chip Industry Week In Review - Taiwan, Europe packaging buildout; 2nm ramps; quantum big $; 2 new university hubs; agent honeypots; Samsung strike averted; extreme environment chip design; quantum-dot qubit device fabricated w/high-NA EUV; EU flagship power electronics project; CNTs. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first...
E-Fortune Cookie Will Humble, But Never Crumble - Will your next project be a success? Only time will tell, but if you build [gokux]’s tiny ESP32 fortune cookie, we predict that, at the very least, there won’t be …read more
AI-powered medical imaging: Turning data into faster diagnoses - Medical imaging has become one of the most critical pillars of modern healthcare to provide insights into diagnosis, treatment planning, Continue Reading The post AI-powered medical imaging: Turning data into faster diagnoses appeared first on EDN .
Statement from Creates President & CEO Dave Anderson on Federal Quantum Investments - “The Department of Commerce’s quantum investments announcement supporting related R&D and manufacturing by a number of our industry partners marks a defining moment for quantum innovation in the United States, and we are proud that, in particular, IBM’s first-of-its-kind quantum foundry will be...
U.S. Injects $2B into Quantum Computing Companies - Washington signals its intent to lead the quantum computing revolution with a $2 billion investment and equity stakes. The post U.S. Injects $2B into Quantum Computing Companies appeared first on EE Times .
Taiwan rides chip-led export boom to bankroll industrial overhaul - AI-driven demand and other emerging technologies kept Taiwan's export momentum strong in the first quarter of 2026, with exports reaching US$195.74 billion, rising 51% year on year. Economic growth hit 13.69%, the highest quarterly growth in 39 years. Taiwan's GDP is forecast to reach NT$32 trillion (US$1.02...
[Blog] A New Approach to BMC Architecture - Modern server platforms are entering a new era of complexity. AI and machine learning (ML) workloads are demanding denser, more specialized compute configurations. Heterogeneous accelerators, from GPUs to custom ASICs, are becoming standard fixtures alongside traditional CPUs. Disaggregated and modular...
Lam Research Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend - Lam Research Corporation (Nasdaq: LRCX) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend of $0.26 per share of common stock. The dividend payment will be made on July...
Semiconductors Historic Start to 2026 - The global semiconductor market grew 25% in the 1st quarter of 2026 from the 4th quarter of 2025 to reach $299 billion, according to WSTS. The 1st quarter of 2026 was up 79% from a year earlier. The 25% quarter-to-quarter growth was the highest in the over 40-year history of WSTS data, surpassing the...
AI/ML integration in medical systems - Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are increasingly being integrated into medical systems. This delivers smarter and faster care by Continue Reading The post AI/ML integration in medical systems appeared first on EDN .
AMD Plans $10B Investment in Taiwan to Boost AI Infrastructure - AMD to invest more than $10 billion in Taiwan ecosystem, ramping HPC chips on TSMC’s 2-nm process amid AI buildout. The post AMD Plans $10B Investment in Taiwan to Boost AI Infrastructure appeared first on EE Times .
Strong execution at RS - RS grew share and improved margin in a flat market forbits 2025/6 fiscal year. “2025/26 was another year of strong execution of our multi-year plan to improve the business and deliver on the significant value creation opportunity at RS,” says CEO Simon Pryce (pictured), “revenue was broadly flat...
Large-scale, SRAM-based LLM Inference Deployment (Groq) - A new technical paper, “SHIP: SRAM-Based Huge Inference Pipelines for Fast LLM Serving,” was published by researchers at Nvidia, with work done while at Groq. Abstract “The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) demands inference systems with both low latency and high efficiency at scale....
Low-Temp Solders Are Suddenly Critical For Chiplets And Photonics - Key Takeaways: Tin-bismuth-based solders enable reduced warpage and compatibility with silicon photonics and other temperature-sensitive components. A novel soldering process using white light could help prevent cracks in flip-chip BGA package solder balls, while reducing the carbon footprint. Hypoeutectic...
