Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction Maps Thermal Transport In GaN Thin Films (MIT, SLAC, Stanford, Argonne) - Researchers from MIT, SLAC, Stanford University, and Argonne National Laboratory published a technical paper titled “Spatiotemporal mapping of anisotropic thermal transport in GaN thin films via ultrafast X-ray diffraction.” Abstract Excerpt: The paper presents a “non-contact, spatiotemporal-resolved...
SK Hynix to Invest 54 Trillion Won in Semiconductor Plants - SK Hynix announced on the 7th that its board of directors approved an investment of 35.2 trillion Korean won for the second fab ( semiconductor production plant), named ‘Y2,’ in the Yongin Semiconductor
Kubos Semiconductors Raises $2.1M: Week in Brief: 8/7/26 - ZEISS Ventures led a €2.2 million ($2.5M) investment in SeeTrue Technologies, a deep-tech company developing miniaturized eye-tracking technology. The investment will enable commercialization of SeeTrue’s ultra-low-power eye-sensing architecture, which is designed for interfaces for smart optical...
FlipBuddy is Borg, You Will Be Assimilated - When you think about it, time is all we’ve really got. Where to go from there is ultimately up to you. Maybe you use an app to track every task, …read more
Why software-defined systems require a dynamic data layer - Embedded systems have entered an era of continuous software evolution, so the architectures beneath them need to evolve for the same reality. The post Why software-defined systems require a dynamic data layer appeared first on EDN .
South Korea welcomes Trump polysilicon rules as boost to non-China suppliers - US President Donald Trump's new import rules on polysilicon, ingots, wafers, and solar products could ripple through global clean energy and semiconductor markets, affecting pricing, sourcing, and investment decisions far beyond the US. South Korean producers welcomed the measure, while analysts said...
ENISA expands its role in the CVE Program - The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is expanding its role in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program,…
Telechips Returns to Profit in Second Quarter on Strong IVI Chip Sales - Telechips returned to profitability in the second quarter of 2026, driven by increased sales of in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) chips.The company said on Aug. 6 that second-quarter revenue rose 33.6% year over year to 59.2 billion won. Operating profit came in at 3.18 billion won. Operating margin imp
AlixLabs Expands Footprint at RISE ProNano in Lund by 400 Square Meters - AlixLabs AB, a Swedish semiconductor technology company pioneering Atomic Pitch Splitting, APS, today announced that it is expanding its cleanroom space at the Lund-based RISE ProNano lab by 400 square meters. The post AlixLabs Expands Footprint at RISE ProNano in Lund by 400 Square Meters appeared first...
Thermal Management Strategies for Next-Generation AI Chiplets and Photonic Integrated Circuits - AI accelerator packages that dissipated 300-400W in 2020 routinely exceed 700W today, with roadmaps pointing past 1,000W — while the photonic ICs increasingly co-packaged alongside them need temperature stability measured in tenths of a degree. The post Thermal Management Strategies for Next-Generation...
IC Cost and Price Model - The IC Cost and Price Model is an end-to-end cost and pricing model for low-power silicon integrated circuits. This model is a manufacturing simulator of wafer fabrication, assembly, and testing. It provides quantitative insights into prices and cost categories including equipment, materials, facilities,...
Trump Order Sets 15% Tariff on Polysilicon, Solar Panels - President Donald Trump ordered new tariffs as well as price floors on imported polysilicon used in semiconductors and solar panels, warning that US reliance on foreign supplies threatens national security.
Silanna Combines Semiconductor and UV Businesses - Silanna has united its operating companies, Silanna Semiconductor and Silanna UV, under a single corporate identity. The move brings together the company’s expertise in advanced semiconductor technologies and UV LED innovation under one brand.
New Audio SoCs Combine Bluetooth HDT with Dual-RF Technology - Ceva and Actions Technology have expanded their longstanding partnership with the introduction of the ATS296X series, a new family of Bluetooth audio chips designed to bring High Data Throughput technology into commercial wireless products. Powered by the Ceva-Waves Bluetooth HDT platform, the series...
Why Memory & Storage Have Become AI's Most Strategic Infrastructure Layer - Traditional enterprise applications were rarely constrained by memory bandwidth. Storage capacity and processor performance generally scaled together, and commodity DRAM followed predictable pricing cycles driven by supply and demand. See how AI changes that equation entirely.
Drones and more: Bans that harm customers and don’t actually close the door - Attempted prohibitions of foreign-sourced products based solely on theoretical claims only invites domestic-supplier favoritism accusations. The post Drones and more: Bans that harm customers and don’t actually close the door appeared first on EDN .
Beyond the Fab: Building Europe’s Next Generation of Semiconductor Champions - Europe's next semiconductor champions will emerge from design expertise, customer knowledge, and IP—not manufacturing capacity alone. The post Beyond the Fab: Building Europe’s Next Generation of Semiconductor Champions appeared first on EE Times .
Korea’s AI ambitions face talent exodus (KOR) - Korea’s AI ambitions face talent exodus (KOR) A World Bank report shows South Korea is losing elite AI researchers even as it pours massive public and private investment into becoming a global AI power. 8/5/2026 - 08:46 PM Opinion Desk
When USB Reaches The Root Of Trust - The growing importance of peripheral interfaces in hardware threat models. The post When USB Reaches The Root Of Trust appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Scientists Expose Hidden Quantum Identity of a Superconductor - Two strongly coupled superconducting states can disguise themselves as a single energy gap in ultrathin materials. Two ultrathin superconductors appeared to have a simple internal structure, but closer measurements revealed something more complex. Instead of relying on one superconducting state, each...
The AI Genie Is Out of the Bottle and Won’t Go Back - December 2025. Inside an Alibaba-affiliated lab, an agent called ROME, mid-training, quietly diverts GPU capacity for itself and opens a hidden channel to the outside world. Nobody told it to.
MCUs streamline single-motor control - Entry-level MCUs in Toshiba’s TXZ+ Series M4L Group integrate dedicated hardware and security functions for single-motor control applications. The post MCUs streamline single-motor control appeared first on EDN .
QED Technologies Completes $18.7M Expansion - QED Technologies International has completed a planned expansion to its operations. The company, as previously announced, has added 20,000 sq ft to its University Avenue facility in the Rochester. The manufacturer of advanced capital equipment for precision optics fabrication and metrology has also established...
Industry Performance (TCI Graphics) – August 6, 2026 - Samsung is preparing multi-billion-dollar equipment orders for its Pyeongtaek P5 fab as it expands memory capacity to meet AI-related demand. The company also confirmed its Taylor, Texas fab remains on track to begin operations in 2026, with a second fab planned for around 2030. The data gives weekly,...
Grounded AI: Making Agentic AI Work for Complex Engineering Systems - My podcast guest this week is Jason Ghidella, Sr. Principal Technologist at MathWorks. Jason and I discuss what breaks when you try to use agentic AI in complex engineering systems, where today’s agentic AI tools tend to fall short for engineering teams, and why AI must integrate with simulation, verification,...
TFLN: A Material Platform Reaches an Inflection Point - Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has spent years confined to defense applications and lab demonstrations; G&H's Stratos Kehayas argues it's now graduating into mainstream commercial photonics, driven by a straightforward electrical advantage. The post TFLN: A Material Platform Reaches an Inflection...
SK hynix board approves $38B investment to build two facilities for DRAM and NAND chips - SK hynix board approves $38B investment to build two facilities for DRAM and NAND chips The chipmaker will invest in plants in Yongin, Gyeonggi, and Cheongju, North Chungcheong, as part of a mid- to long-term plan announced in June. 8/7/2026 - 05:30 AM PARK EUN-JEE
[News] TSMC and Researchers Overcome 2D Semiconductor Bottleneck with Epitaxial Interface Engineering - As conventional silicon semiconductor technology approaches its physical limits, 2D semiconductors are increasingly viewed as a key enabler for extending Moore's Law. According to TechNews, citing Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), a research team led by Dr. Iuliana Radu of TSM......
AMD buys Taalas - AMD is to buy Taalas, the Canadian inference chip specialist. The acquisition strengthens AMD’s long-term AI roadmap with differentiated inference technology Last February Taalas raised $169 million taking total funding […] The post AMD buys Taalas appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Insight: FCC Drafts Ban on Chinese Optical Transceivers in US Datacenters - The US FCC wants to ban US imports of Chinese optical transceivers, especially newer models for 1.6T and above data links used in new AI datacenter equipment. This would have disruptive consequences for the supply chain and increase AI capex costs over the next two years. It could also accelerate the...
One-dimensional Dirac modes in the core of a pentagonal topological crystalline insulator nanowire - We investigate the electronic band topology of recently fabricated pentagonal IV-VI semiconductor nanowires, which contain five radial \{111\} \{111\} twin planes meeting at the nanowire axis. Tight-binding calculations show that, when the bulk band structure is inverted and the twin planes in the nanowire...
Roger Grace MEMS report validates the rising role of AI - Dozens of thought leaders in the 2025 Roger Grace MEMS Commercialization Report Card described the dramatically increasing role of AI as MEMS technology has reached mature status after years of growth. The experts' aggregate grade was B-minus, the same as the prior three years.
Korea in Race to Keep Chips Edge as China Presses, Minister Says - South Korea risks losing its edge in semiconductors unless it helps chipmakers accelerate investment, as China pours unprecedented resources into the industry and intensifies the global technology race, Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan said.
MACOM Reports Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results - LOWELL, MA, August 6, 2026 – MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (“MACOM”) (Nasdaq: MTSI), a leading supplier of semiconductor products, today announced its financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended July 3, 2026.
Practical AI: Don’t Work Harder; Work Smarter - For the past three years, almost every discussion I’ve had about AI processors and accelerators has eventually devolved into someone jumping up and down (metaphorically speaking) waving around bigger and bigger numbers: more parameters, more memory bandwidth, more TOPS, more… well… you name it,...
Narrative: 2026 Q3 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems 2024-2033 - The ADAS market's transformation from distributed systems to centralized computing continues, though China's timeline lead over the rest of the world has narrowed this quarter, from three years to two. The Iran/US war remains the dominant near-term risk, even as memory and advanced-packaging constraints...
Electron correlation in semiconductors and insulators via symbolic regression - …materials with thousands of atoms at a computational cost comparable to semi-local density functional theory. We demonstrate the accuracy of this approach for covalent semiconductors , ionic insulators, and two-dimensional materials. These results establish symbolic regression as a viable route to...
WD Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results - style="display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; max-height: 5em;"Western Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: WDC) today reported fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026 financial results for the period ended July 3, 2026.
China takes No.2 CIS slot - Sony accounted for close to 50% of global CIS revenue in 2025 with China becoming the second-largest CIS supplier overtaking South Korea, with Omnivision, SmartSens, GalaxyCore, and Gpixel driving growth, […] The post China takes No.2 CIS slot appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Breakthrough in Quantum Dot Surface Defect Repair: Enabling Ultra-High Efficiency and Long-Life QLEDs - Steric hindrance of long-chain ligands leads to abundant unpassivated dangling bonds on quantum dots (QDs), which significantly impair the efficiency and operational stability of QD light-emitting diodes (QLEDs), especially in ultra-small pixel devices. Professors Fushan Li and Hailong Hu at Fuzhou University...
AMD Bought a Chip That Runs One Model - Does it move AMD stock? Speculation. Helios plus Taalas cluster, what about long-context, who uses it, and why buying a one-model chip is less crazy than it sounds.
Intel Announces Leadership Appointment - Intel Corporation today announced the appointment of Dean Jarnac as executive vice president and chief sales officer. The post Intel Announces Leadership Appointment appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .
Sponsored Content: Photonics – a key enabling technology in the quantum world - In recent years, the transition of quantum technologies from research labs to industrial applications has been phenomenal. This trend is clearly reflected in public funding, venture capital investments, and patent […] The post Sponsored Content: Photonics – a key enabling technology in the quantum...
One of the Thinnest Transistor Interfaces Yet Could Reshape Future Chips - A sub-nanometer buffer improved atomically thin transistors, pushing future chips closer to silicon’s limits. A transistor channel only one atom thick sounds like an ideal foundation for the next generation of computer chips. But surrounding that channel with the materials needed to control it can erase...
Chip Industry Week in Review - Memory density increases; 2026 chip industry revenue to hit $1.65T; imec metrology roadmap; MIT's self-assembled contacts; new U.S. restrictions; IC training; NXP to buy Ambarella?;AI sandbox leaks; memory-centric accelerator; entangled photons. The post Chip Industry Week in Review appeared first on...
Conference Report: Hybrid Bonding Advances at ECTC Meeting - Dave Lammers surveys how Applied Materials, EV Group, imec, ITRI, Leti, and Tokyo Electron are pushing hybrid bonding past its current limits. The post Conference Report: Hybrid Bonding Advances at ECTC Meeting appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .
Trump Readies Tariffs and Price Floor to Help US Polysilicon - President Donald Trump is preparing to impose tariffs and minimum prices on imported polysilicon, a bid to boost domestic production of the material as well as the US semiconductors and solar panels made from it.
White Paper: The Semiconductor Foundation of Modern AI Data Centers - Artificial intelligence AI has become one of the most significant drivers of semiconductor innovation in history. While AI applications often receive the most attention, the underlying hardware infrastructure that enables AI consists of a highly sophisticated ecosystem of semiconductor technologies. Modern...
MAGPIE rover heads for lunar polar ice exploration - ispace-EUROPE has won a €65 million ESA contract to develop Europe’s first lunar polar ice exploration rover, MAGPIE, the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration. It’s a Phase […] The post MAGPIE rover heads for lunar polar ice exploration appeared first on Electronics Weekly...
5 Benefits of Partnering With a U.S. Semiconductor Foundry - Semiconductors sit at the center of modern life. They power vehicles, industrial automation, communications infrastructure, AI data centers, defense platforms, medical technologies, and countless systems that people and organizations depend on every day. As demand…
China develops domestic DUV lithography, but likelihood of EUV advance remains wafer-thin - China develops domestic DUV lithography, but likelihood of EUV advance remains wafer-thin China’s new domestic DUV lithography system marks progress in mature chipmaking, but experts say major barriers remain before it can challenge advanced semiconductor leaders. 8/6/2026 - 01:26 AM News Team
Hardware Design and Security in the Era of Chiplets and LLMs - The semiconductor industry is undergoing a dual revolution: the shift toward heterogeneous 2.5D chiplet systems and the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Electronic Design Automation (EDA) flows. While these paradigms offer unprecedented benefits in yield, modularity, design productivity,...
The Chip Insider®– Dr. Strange-AI-Guys, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI - Inside G. Dan Hutcheson’s latest analysis, the AI-driven semiconductor boom reveals more than surging chip demand, highlighting how structural industry shifts, hyperscaler growth, and the end of Moore’s Law are reshaping the market far beyond typical cycle concerns
2025 Rivian R1T Gen 2 Autonomy Experience Module Design Material Assembly - A Design Material Assembly report focuses on mechanical and assembly features of the product with dimensions and closeup images with call outs of major visible features with description of the identified materials and manufacturing processes. The DMA also covers the construction of the device to show...
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