Semi. Fabs and Clean Rooms 95m ago: Recent activity centers on India's semiconductor push with three ATMP units in production and Tata's first wafer fab delayed to mid-2028, alongside a new ₹1.27 lakh crore Semicon 2.0 program. TSMC Arizona 2nm fab may come online earlier than planned with CoWoS capacity doubling yearly. SK Hynix approved $38B for new memory fabs with cleanrooms targeted for late 2028-2029. South Korea considers expanding a cluster to 9 fabs. Data center power and optical infrastructure remain key bottlenecks over pure chip supply.
Quectel connects IoT with Android 16 smart modules - Quectel Wireless Solutions, the IOT specialist, has launched two Android 16 smart modules aimed at industrial and commercial applications. These are the SH602FA, a high-performance 4G smart module, and the […] The post Quectel connects IoT with Android 16 smart modules appeared first on Electronics...
[News] NVIDIA Vera Rubin Spillover from HBM to NAND: CMX Fuels TLC Spot Price Rebound from June Dip - As NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin ramps up, its memory impact is extending beyond HBM into NAND. Alpha Economy reports that stronger Rubin production is tightening TLC NAND supply-demand, with the 512Gb TLC NAND spot price rebounding from its June dip to $21.125 on Aug. 17. Citing DRAMeXchange, the report...
What caught your eye? PCB supplies, Intel memory, Laser links - Supply issues around PCBs, that Intel may be re-entering the memory sector, and the first in-flight optical communications link between a re-entry spacecraft and an orbiting satellite... The post What caught your eye? PCB supplies, Intel memory, Laser links appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Adapter makes Google’s wireless Android Auto a reality - Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combine to untether smartphone-to-car connections…this time with a Google, versus Apple, angle. The post Adapter makes Google’s wireless Android Auto a reality appeared first on EDN .
Nvidia closing in on US$100B credit guarantee deal for OpenAI's Ohio data center - Nvidia is approaching an agreement to provide credit guarantees of around US$100 billion for OpenAI's 10GW data center in Ohio, among the largest AI infrastructure projects ever, according to The Information . This is a significant reduction from earlier plans by Nvidia to guarantee US$250 billion for...
Scientists Reprogram How Light Travels in Just 74 Femtoseconds - An ultrathin silicon surface can steer and reshape light in just 74 femtoseconds, opening a path toward a new generation of high-speed optical technology. A pulse of light can cross the width of a human hair in roughly 74 femtoseconds. In that same vanishingly brief interval, a new device developed at...
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.
Do we still need schematic diagrams for analog circuits? - The highly integrated ICs have changed the appearance of the analog-circuit schematic diagrams over the years. The post Do we still need schematic diagrams for analog circuits? appeared first on EDN .
Raj Talluri Named CEO At K&S - Talluri, a semiconductor veteran, has been named president and chief executive of Kulicke and Soffa Industries (K&S)
Quantum Mpemba Speedups in the Thermodynamics of Landauer Erasure - …and Hamiltonian shaping of Liouvillian spectra, which enable Mpemba-enhanced erasure to be directly tested on platforms such as superconducting circuits, trapped ions, semiconductor quantum dots, and solid-state spins.
Rise Design Automation at DAC 2026 - AI was everywhere at DAC 2026, so I stopped by the booth of Rise Design Automation to chat with Ellie Burns to hear what’s new this year. Ellie shared that Rise DA has added a new AI-powered flow to go from specification to a High Level Synthesis (HLS) model, to a RTL model. The reason for using a HLS...
Engineers connect bacteria to create living transistors - MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing the team to create living "circuit boards" that can be printed onto a growth medium in a Petri dish.
Technical Report: Qualcomm HG11-74740-100 PA Supply Modulator Architecture Analysis - The following is an Architecture Analysis of the Qualcomm C 001 PA Supply Modulator extracted from the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra (SM-S948U) Smartphone. The C 001 is notable as the first pure-switching envelope tracker deployed on a 5G smartphone platform. Even if this is not the case, Qualcomm has substantially...
NVIDIA’s $500B AI Bet, Anthropic’s Watermark Gamble & the Edge AI Debate | Ep. 315 - NVIDIA mobilizes over $500 billion in third-party capital to finance AI infrastructure, Anthropic doubles down on data-center ownership and mandatory content watermarking, and Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman debate whether distributed AI at the edge is finally ready to accelerate, all on Ep. 315 of...
[News] Vertilite to Build InP Laser Chip Base in China’s Changzhou with RMB 5 Billion - On August 11, Vertilite Inc., a leading supplier of compound semiconductor optical chips, signed an agreement to locate its high-end optical communication chip and device R&D and manufacturing base in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. Representing a total projected investment of approximately RMB ...
Package Failure Analysis Services | IC Package FA Lab - Package failure analysis is the systematic investigation of defects and failures originating within semiconductor packaging, interconnects, solder connections, die attach, bond wires, redistribution layers and other structures that connect the semiconductor die to the outside system. A semiconductor device...
Asus lifts server outlook, Supermicro orders hit record highs as Nvidia gears up to beat guidance - Concerns over whether the AI surge is a bubble continue to linger. However, recent indicators—from Nvidia's latest capital initiatives and TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei's assessment of major cloud service provider (CSP) demand, to record capex from US CSPs and surging orders across downstream players like...
Research Bits: Aug. 18 - Edge AI hardware/algorithm co-design; memtransistor with programmable response speeds; artificial synapse with long- and short-term memory. The post Research Bits: Aug. 18 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Moody’s nearly doubles Korea’s 2026 growth forecast to 3.5% on chip boom - Moody’s nearly doubles Korea’s 2026 growth forecast to 3.5% on chip boom The ratings agency cites surging semiconductor exports and expects the chip upcycle to continue through at least mid-2027. 8/18/2026 - 02:17 AM News Team
Burst-Driven Collective Ultrafast Interactions for Confined Optical Absorption - …which is efficient but offers limited spatial localization. Here, we show that a burst of ultrafast pulses can collectively build up a population of free carriers in semiconductor nanoparticles via multiphoton absorption. The free carriers absorb linearly and strongly, and dissipate rapidly once the...
Kiev To solve Moscow’s Problems - THE “Kiev ” has been developed in the Computer Centre of the Academy of Sciences here in Moscow. It is a general purpose digital computer and is designed to solve […] The post Kiev To solve Moscow’s Problems appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
AI server demand pushes high-end MLCC lead times toward 40 weeks - Multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) supply is increasingly diverging by product specification, with mainstream components remaining relatively stable while lead times for some high-capacitance, high-specification parts used in AI servers stretch toward 40 weeks.
Controlling Voltage Droop In 2.5D PIM Chiplet Architectures (Washington St., UW-Madison) - Researchers from Washington State University and University of Wisconsin–Madison published a technical paper titled “ReVolt: Power Delivery Network-Aware Voltage Droop Control for 2.5D PIM Chiplet Architectures.” Abstract “Processing-in-memory (PIM)-based 2.5D multi-chiplet platforms are enablers...
EP 188: The Wild West of Optical, Cisco's AI Hack, and Is Compute an Investable Asset - In this episode of The Circuit, hosts Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg break down the evolving structural dynamics across optical networking, semiconductor manufacturing, and AI infrastructure financing. They begin by analyzing the divergent earnings from Lumentum and Coherent, pointing to margin pressures...
ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026 - I believe this year’s DAC will be viewed as the time and place where EDA experienced a major shift. That is, the shift from the value of tools and methodology to the value of agentic design flows powered by highly trained agents. The design community will clearly need the tools and methodologies that...
Government must resolve labor disputes over 'Yellow Envelope' act and more - Government must resolve labor disputes over 'Yellow Envelope' act and more The government must clarify labor rules and balance flexibility with protections to keep strategic investment at home. 8/17/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk
Fluid-Side Observability Expands AI Hardware Reliability - As AI systems increasingly rely on liquid cooling, coolant condition is emerging as a reliability signal. The post Fluid-Side Observability Expands AI Hardware Reliability appeared first on EE Times .
D2C phone calls get nearer - Starlink has recently deployed its first batch of V3 satellites which deliver direct-to-cell (D2C) services. To avoid congestion, Starlink lowered the V3 satellites’ operating altitude to about 350 km, aiming […] The post D2C phone calls get nearer appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Measurement basics: A field guide to instrument interfaces - Understanding GPIB, USB, LXI, PXI, and VXI interfaces equips engineers to unlock the full potential of their T&M tools. The post Measurement basics: A field guide to instrument interfaces appeared first on EDN .
CEO Interview with Jerry Chen of Upbeat Technology - Jerry Chen, CEO and Founder of Upbeat Technology, received his Master of Science in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin. Started working as an IC design engineer in Silicon Valley at Intel, Lucent, Apple, and Procket Network since 1995. Later transitioned into Technical Marketing roles, serving...
