Semi. Fabs and Clean Rooms 3½h ago: India continues its semiconductor build-out with Tata Dholera, CG Power, and Kaynes projects advancing from construction to production and yield ramp. Waaree launching ultra-pure gases plant; SCREEN Holdings supplying cleaning equipment to India by 2027. Entegris hosting CMP event focused on yield improvement. Tower Semiconductor expanding in Japan for silicon photonics.
Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means - About twenty years ago I worked with Cliff Hou, LC Lu, and the TSMC PDK team on reference flows with emerging EDA and IP companies. This was the precursor to the OIP. Having a person with LC Lu’s depth of R&D experience running the TSMC Design & Technology Platform is truly an honor, absolutely.
Chip Industry Week In Review - AI agents move deeper into chip design; China doubles down on AI compute and memory; chip supply chains tighten for equipment and critical materials; TSMC partners accelerate; ICs head to space; optics advances, neural super resolution, auto PQC; Purdue-UIUC workforce training. The post Chip Industry...
20 Years of NXP: The People, Values and Culture Behind the Journey - We spoke with Lars Reger, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, about his perspective on NXP’s evolution over the past two decades, the technologies that have defined our success and why he believes the next chapter of innovation will unfold at the intelligent edge.
Equipment Forecast (Summary) - These reports include TechInsights' latest views on worldwide semiconductor equipment markets from 5 years in the past and forecasting for the next 5 years, updated on a quarterly basis. Forecasted total semiconductor equipment sales (test, assembly, and wafer fab equipment). Wafer fab equipment includes...
Lattice Mach-N2 FPGA family targets system control and security - Lattice Semiconductor is releasing the Lattice Mach-N2 FPGA family, for system control and security in modern infrastructure. Mach-N2 combines integrated flash, a hardware Root of Trust, and CNSA 2.0-compliant post-quantum […] The post Lattice Mach-N2 FPGA family targets system control and security...
LEDs for under-cabinet illumination upgrades - Long life? Power efficient? Color temperature flexibility? Drop-in replacement? Yes please, I'll take one of these! The post LEDs for under-cabinet illumination upgrades appeared first on EDN .
SEMICON India 2026: Startup Mitra Sheds Light on Early-Stage Silicon Startup Funding - Indian semiconductor startups are seeking capital beyond seed rounds as they advance from prototypes and tape-out toward volume production. The post SEMICON India 2026: Startup Mitra Sheds Light on Early-Stage Silicon Startup Funding appeared first on EE Times .
[News] Micron Reportedly Ends 2GB GDDR7, Narrowing Supply Options for NVIDIA’s RTX 50 Series - As memory supply tightens and major chipmakers prioritize long-term contracts and higher-end products, Micron is reportedly phasing out its 2 GB GDDR7 chips used in several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards. TechPowerUp and Gazlog, citing UNIKO's Hardware, report that the products have rea......
Designing chips for the AI era: what TSMC’s roadmap means - AI is creating two related problems for semiconductor designers. They must deliver more computing power for training and inference, while keeping energy use and cost manageable. Dr. LC Lu’s presentation at the TSMC Open Innovation Platform Forum describes a response built around more efficient transistors,...
Sensors extend current measurement to 100 A - The Melexis MLX91224 and MLX91225 isolated Hall current sensors measure up to 100 A RMS in automotive and energy applications. The post Sensors extend current measurement to 100 A appeared first on EDN .
8 to 48 volt PWM relay/solenoid driver finds fault, pinches power - This versatile Design Idea survives and reports open- and short-circuits, not to mention multiplying efficiencies. The post 8 to 48 volt PWM relay/solenoid driver finds fault, pinches power appeared first on EDN .
Noctua explores 2,000W micro-channel air cooling - Noctua and Forced Physics are exploring whether densely packed micro-channels can provide extreme cooling performance without the noise associated with high-pressure airflow
The Bringer Of Peace, Love And A Kicking - In May 1998 EW carried this yarn: ’Intel chairman Andy Grove, having handed over operational duties to president Craig Barrett, was discharging his new role as industry mentor in Asia […] The post The Bringer Of Peace, Love And A Kicking appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Akamai plans US$5.5 billion cloud buildout after US$11.6 billion Anthropic deal - Akamai Technologies plans to spend about US$5.5 billion building cloud infrastructure to support a US$11.6 billion, seven-year commitment from Anthropic, as the US cloud provider expands memory procurement, server hardware and distributed CPU capacity.
Trump-Xi summit leaves rare-earth issue unresolved amid yttrium supply squeeze - The Trump-Xi summit left rare-earth supplies among the unresolved issues in US-China economic relations, as the US and Japan confront uneven access to yttrium, a little-known rare-earth metal used in heat-resistant coatings for semiconductor manufacturing tools.
Moving to a Microchip MCU: Tools and Resources for Migration - Migrating to a new MCU can impact hardware, firmware and development timelines. This blog post highlights practical tools from Microchip—including device cross-referencing, migration guidance and MPLAB® AI Coding Assistant—to help engineers accelerate evaluation and integration.
Silicon Demand Forecast - These reports include TechInsights' latest views on the worldwide silicon demand market performance from 1983 and forecasting for the next 5 years, updated on a quarterly basis. Includes: global silicon demand by wafer size (300mm, 200mm, and
S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions—and Why They Matter - Modern system-on-chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs are extraordinarily complex. They may combine processors, accelerators, memory controllers, high-speed interfaces, security functions, and millions—or even billions—of logic gates. Verifying these systems entirely...
Delos Data Targets Heterogeneous AI with Data Interface - Delos’s Apollo chiplet is designed to bridge different endpoint semantics and interconnects, creating a low-latency domain spanning GPUs, accelerators, CPUs and memory The post Delos Data Targets Heterogeneous AI with Data Interface appeared first on EE Times .
Silicon Creations: 15 Years of Learning, Designing and Growing Together - When I interviewed with Silicon Creations 15 years ago, I met directly with the company’s two founders, Jeff Galloway and Randy Caplan. I joined in 2011 as a circuit designer, and the three of us were the entire company. Today, Silicon Creations has grown to nearly 200 employees across multiple locations...
Morphotonics Closes $45M Funding Round - Morphotonics, a provider of large-area nanoimprint lithography technology, has secured more than €40 million (~$45 million) to scale its manufacturing technology for AI glasses, augmented reality (AR) waveguides, and advanced photonic...
Beyond GKS: More scholarships for international students in Korea - Beyond GKS: More scholarships for international students in Korea Universities, private foundations and local governments offer scholarships ranging from tuition reductions to full tuition, living expenses and other financial support 9/24/2026 - 02:47 AM YOON SEUNG-JIN
Declining polls for President Trump - There is not a single major issue on which President Trump receives a positive net approval rating, according to RealClearPolitics. The President is underwater across the board, with inflation standing […] The post Declining polls for President Trump appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Reflections on a Remarkable Decade at SIA … and the Opportunities Ahead - As I near my departure as CEO of SIA, I’ve been reflecting on how profoundly semiconductors have transformed the world during my tenure—and how we are still only scratching the surface of what’s possible. When I first joined SIA and visited a fab, I was awed by the sheer scale of the technology,...
The Intelligence Revolution: TSMC’s OIP Ecosystem Forges the Path to Trillion-Transistor AI Systems - At the 2026 OIP Ecosystem Forum, the industry narrative shifted from incremental scaling to what TSMC defines as the “Intelligence Revolution.” I had a briefing with Aveek Sarkar ahead of the event, to gain deeper insights. Aveek is the Director of the Ecosystem and Alliance Management Division at...
Steam Frame Teardown: We’re Fans. Except of the Fan - Finally, finally, the Steam Frame is here! Five years ago, rumors of an internal Valve project codenamed Deckard rocked the VR enthusiast world. Since then, gamers have salivated over the…
Lightera Secures Investment to Expand Submarine Optical Fiber Manufacturing - Lightera has secured what it calls a major capital investment to expand its submarine optical fiber manufacturing operations in Denmark and the United States, bolstering its ability to meet growing demand for submarine communications infrastructure....
WFE Market Share - TechInsights' WFE Market Share Database contains quarterly and annual data for Lithography, CMP, Ion Implant, Deposition, Etch & Clean, Process Diagnostics and other wafer fab equipment segments and subsegments. The WFE supplier landscape is driven by the top five suppliers: ASML, Applied Materials, Lam...
5G to 6G: AI moves into the network - 6G standardization is advancing through the 3GPP, with releases studying AI, sensing, and new architecture on the road to commercial rollout. The post 5G to 6G: AI moves into the network appeared first on EDN .
AI drives high-end packaging market past $51B by 2031 - High-end performance packaging revenue is set to exceed 51 billion dollars by 2031, driven by accelerating demand for AI accelerators, high-bandwidth memory and co-packaged optics (CPO), according to Yole Group.
Spatial accessory trackers for Apple headsets - Mikroe, the click board specialist, has come up its Spatial Anchor S1 and Spatial Anchor R1 precise spatial accessory tracking modules for Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Both are now shipping […] The post Spatial accessory trackers for Apple headsets appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Korean, Mexican leaders agree to launch dialogue on supply chains, deepen AI and defense ties - Korean, Mexican leaders agree to launch dialogue on supply chains, deepen AI and defense ties Korea's President Lee Jae Myung and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to strengthen supply chains, trade, AI, aerospace and defense cooperation during their bilateral summit in Mexico City. 9/24/2026...
Move Over, HAL. New AI Thinks Like a Chip Designer - It just struck me that—although we don’t yet have things like Jetson-style flying cars—some of the technologies we do have go way beyond what was considered to be in the realm of science fiction when I was a young sprout. Actually, as an aside, just thinking about
Gadget Watch: Googlebook goes AI with AI - The successor to the humble Chromebook workhorse, the newly-launched Googlebook laptop is a premium product that sees the company go all-in (AI) with AI. The post Gadget Watch: Googlebook goes AI with AI appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
AI-Driven Device Modeling For Next Generation Quantum Applications - Extracting advanced compact models and overcoming their shortcomings using a hybrid ANN approach at cryogenic temperatures. The post AI-Driven Device Modeling For Next Generation Quantum Applications appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
On quantum confinement without barriers - Usually in semiconductor heterostructures, such as quantum wells, the quantum confinement is realized by means of heterobarriers, which are simply the band offsets in adjacent materials. Here the arguments are provided, that the energy dispersions in materials (in simple case determined by effective masses)...
Technical Report: Qorvo QM77058A MHB L-PAMiD Module Architecture Analysis - The following is a Module Architecture Analysis report for the Qorvo QM77058A MHB L-PAMiD, a Mid/High Band (MHB) Radio Frequency Power Amplifier Module with an embedded Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) and integrated duplexers (L-PAMiD), developed for 4G LTE and 5G NR applications. The specific component used...
IC-Link by imec Expands Collaboration With TSMC - IC-Link by imec, imec’s design and manufacturing service provider for ASICs and silicon photonics, and TSMC today announced an expansion of their collaboration aimed at simplifying customer access to advanced-node semiconductor design capabilities. The post IC-Link by imec Expands Collaboration With...
Lee touts shipbuilding cooperation with Trump at New York investment event - Lee touts shipbuilding cooperation with Trump at New York investment event President Lee Jae Myung told Wall Street investors that cooperation with U.S. President Donald Trump on naval shipbuilding could yield "tangible results." 9/23/2026 - 11:59 AM SARAH KIM
RAF Space Squadron forms to defend Britain’s satellites - The UK’s Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smith, has announced the formation of an RAF Space Squadron to defend British satellites and interests in space. Its […] The post RAF Space Squadron forms to defend Britain’s satellites appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
SEMICON INDIA 2026: India Starts Packaging Chips as Ecosystem Takes Shape - India moves five chip packaging plants into production as $13.5 billion ISM 2.0 expands manufacturing, design, and engineering capabilities. The post SEMICON INDIA 2026: India Starts Packaging Chips as Ecosystem Takes Shape appeared first on EE Times .
