How Spain’s ICFO Helped Build a Quantum Security Startup for the AI Era - ICFO spinoff Quside has developed a quantum random number generator chip for secure cryptography applications. The post How Spain’s ICFO Helped Build a Quantum Security Startup for the AI Era appeared first on EE Times .
The Unavoidable CMMC Deadline - 75% don't prioritize CMMC — but 100% will need it by November 2028. The post The Unavoidable CMMC Deadline appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Chemours Announces Second Quarter Dividend - providing industrial and specialty chemicals products for markets, including coatings, plastics, refrigeration and air conditioning, transportation, semiconductor and advanced electronics, general industrial, and oil and gas. Through our three businesses – Thermal & Specialized Solutions, Titanium Technologies,...
GlobalFoundries sees optical and SiGe momentum drive strategic leap into high-value chip markets - GlobalFoundries used its first-quarter 2026 earnings call to spotlight advances in silicon photonics (SiPh), co-packaged optics (CPO), and silicon-germanium (SiGe) development while reporting improved margins and steady revenue. CEO Tim Breen and CFO Sam Franklin framed the quarter as evidence of a strategic...
Why Big Data Workloads Deserve AmpereOne M - Explore why Apache Hadoop and Spark workloads can run faster on AmpereOne® M processors—optimized for cores, memory bandwidth, and power efficiency to improve big data and AI pipeline performance.
AI Car Companions and Radar on High Alert with IDTechEx - The world of vehicle autonomy is made possible with intelligent sensing and radar capabilities that can improve the safety of cars and make for smoother journeys. This article covers the various components of autonomous vehicles, including in-cabin sensing, software and the integration of AI, and radar...
Synopsys and TSMC Deepen AI Design Alliance: What It Means - A recent announcement from Synopsys signals a meaningful escalation in the race to build next-generation AI hardware. The expanded collaboration between Synopsys and TSMC brings together silicon-proven IP, AI-driven design tools, and cutting-edge manufacturing processes in a tightly integrated effort...
NY Creates’ Q1 Update – 2026 Annual Review - NY Creates is proud to share the outstanding advancements and successes from a Q1 update in our 2026 Annual Review. It highlights expansion efforts, strategic partnerships, and innovation announcements from January to March 2026, and showcases our organization as a leader in workforce development, economic...
Okmetic participating in SEMICON Southeast Asia - We’re excited to be participating in SEMICON Southeast Asia on May 5-7 in Kuala Lumpur! 🌏 As the largest gathering of the electronics and semiconductor supply chain in Southeast Asia, the event brings together industry leaders to discuss resilience, sustainability, and the future of chipmaking, from...
Elmos: Impressive start to year 2026 – guidance raised - Sales increase to 152.5 million Euro in the first quarter, up 20.2% year-on-year, EBIT margin improves to 23.8% and adjusted free cash flow reaches a strong 26.7% of sales
[News] ASE, Powertech, KYEC CapEx May Hit NT$370B This Year as AI Drives Record OSAT Investment - The AI chip race is intensifying across the board, with advanced packaging growing in significance and driving a surge in OSAT capital spending. According to Commercial Times, Taiwan-based OSAT players ASE, Powertech, and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) are expected to see their combined capital expend......
Chemists capture light-matter hybrid particles traveling long distances - To capture a crisp image of a hummingbird in flight, which can flap its wings up to 200 times per second, a photographer needs a camera with an extremely fast shutter speed. But what if your target is smaller than a single ...
Connecting the Dots: Why RISC-V System Design Is Entering a New Era - At the recent RISC-V Now event hosted by Andes, the discussion underscored the fact that RISC-V is no longer just about instruction set architecture advantages or customizable cores. The real focus has moved up the stack to system-level design. This is where connectivity, integration, and security define...
KYOCERA AVX RELEASES MULTILAYER VARISTORS OPTIMIZED FOR 48V AUTOMOTIVE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS - and transportation power suppliesTransGuard VT Series high-temperature, automotive-grade MLVs are zinc-oxide-based (ZnO-based) ceramic semiconductor devices that combine extremely reliable bidirectional overvoltage protection and EMI/RFI attenuation capabilities in compact, SMT packages that
sensiBel MEMS microphone heads to Silex production - The sensiBel MEMS microphone is moving towards higher-volume production through a supply-chain relationship with Silex Microsystems, the Swedish pure-play MEMS…
From building software to building learning systems - Organizations that take this transition seriously won’t simply have better features; they’ll have a compounding structural advantage that widens with every deployment cycle.
Designing Chips In The Context Of Rapidly Evolving AI - Long‑running agents, tool-calling LLMs, and multimodal chaos are rewriting edge compute rules, and making chip design more challenging. The post Designing Chips In The Context Of Rapidly Evolving AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
120 students tape out ASIC designs - The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield recently hosted a landmark hands-on chip design workshop bringing together students from across the UK to design and submit their own microchips for fabrication. The initiative was supported by EnSilica and a group of semiconductor...
Dataset Generation using Docling and LlamaIndex - IntroductionAs large language models (LLMs) continue to evolve, the differentiating factor for most enterprise AI workloads is no longer the model architecture itself, but the quality and structure of...
KIST Accelerates U.S. Expansion of Quantum Deep-Tech Startups Through SelectUSA 2026 - single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), offering high sensitivity and precision with applications spanning quantum communication, quantum computing, semiconductor inspection, and defense.SLEEX is developing an advanced perception technology that combines quantum LiDAR and electric field sensing
After Decades, MIT Researchers Capture the First 3D Atomic View of a Mysterious Material - A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic complexity of relaxor ferroelectrics. Relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies such as ultrasound equipment, microphones, and sonar systems. Their unusual behavior...
Want Physical AI? Just Add Water! - Before we start, I should note that I always enjoy chatting with company representatives for these columns—although, in some cases, we may be asking the word “enjoy” to do some heavy lifting. Happily, conversations with folks like Kyle Fox, Senior Director at NXP Semiconductors , require no such...
EV Li-ion Batteries Market Set to Reach US$320 Billion by 2036 - Electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to grow across a range of segments and regions. Lithium-ion batteries are the fundamental technology enabling electrification in the automotive sector. This article explores the batteries driving electric vehicle adoption, from chemistry and design trends to regulations...
European tech bosses: EU in “crisis of our own making” - A coalition of European tech CEOs, including ASML’s Christophe Fouquet, has issued a wake-up call to policymakers, warning that fragmented markets and regulatory overload are undermining the continent’s innovation capacity.
Softbank and Cosmos Labs to produce zinc-halogen batteries - SoftBank is hooking up with Cosmos Lab of Korea to produce zinc-halogen batteries for datacentres, reports the Nikkei. The attraction of zinc-halogen batteries is that they can be made with locally available materials and do not need lithium or cobalt so reducing Japan’s dependence on China for industrial...
The Next Phase of Europe’s Semiconductor Strategy - Europe’s semiconductor future will hinge on aligning geopolitics and industrial strengths into a coherent, long-term strategy. The post The Next Phase of Europe’s Semiconductor Strategy appeared first on EE Times .
Advancing Smart Car Access with High-Performance Secure Elements - The rapid shift toward smart car access has redefined how drivers interact with their vehicles. As the Car Connectivity Consortium® (CCC) Digital Key specifications mature, gain traction and are rapidly adopted in the market, the automotive ecosystem increasingly relies on Secure Elements (SE).
Fuzehub News Release: U.S. Semiconductor Industry Convenes at Glass4Chips Summit on May 14-15 - Gathering in Albany, New York, one of the nation’s rising semiconductor innovation hubs, industry leaders will explore glass substrates as a next-generation material in chips packaging Hosted by FuzeHub in collaboration with NY Creates, SEMI and IEEE Electronics Packaging Society, the summit’s registration...
Samsung pulls ahead of SK Hynix as commodity DRAM prices surge - Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are both riding a historic memory upcycle, but a profit gap of about KRW15 trillion (approx. US$10 billion) has opened between the two Korean chipmakers, driven largely by commodity DRAM rather than high-bandwidth memory (HBM), according to Sedaily .
IBM Study: CEOs are Reshaping C-suite Roles for the AI Era - A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value finds that the accelerating pace of AI is pushing CEOs to redesign how C-suite roles are structured to drive greater business impact across the enterprise.
Join us for the 2026 Florida Semiconductor Institute Industry Mixer - Join us for the FSI Semiconductor Industry Mixer – an exclusive networking event focused on bringing together students and industry professionals for meaningful conversations about careers in semiconductors.
Silicon Labs Reports First Quarter 2026 Results - Wireless IoT leader delivers $214 million in revenue and non-GAAP EPS of $0.53 AUSTIN, Texas, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), the leading innovator in low-power wireless,...
MACsec: A Shift in Security for Scale-across Networking - MACsec is moving to the module in scale-across networks. Media Access Control security (MACsec) is a foundational technology for protecting data in motion. It encrypts and authenticates Ethernet traffic to guard against eavesdropping, denial-of-service attacks, intrusion and other security threats while...
Industry-Leading 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping - Redefining rack-scale density with breakthrough energy efficiency versus hard drives A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking on this link. BOISE, Idaho, May 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is now shipping the
Custom ASIC Solutions | Find ASIC Design & Turnkey Chip Development Partners - Custom ASIC Solutions: From Specification to Silicon Developing a custom ASIC is one of the most important decisions a hardware company can make. A well-designed ASIC can reduce power consumption, improve performance, lower unit cost at volume, protect intellectual property, and create a product advantage...
The curious case of the dancing antennae - Misbehaving buffer pointers, whose effects threatened to create a fatal project setback, were identified via a clever software subdivision technique. The post The curious case of the dancing antennae appeared first on EDN .
Another Qualcomm exec joins Intel to lead PC and physical AI unit - Intel has announced that it has appointed Alex Katouzian as head of its Client Computing and Physical AI Division. With this hire, Intel seeks to align its consumer PC business with physical AI applications spanning robotics and AI -enabled devices.
Research Bits: May 5 - AI power prediction; large-area FPCBs; graphene vibrations. The post Research Bits: May 5 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
CHPT posts record April revenue on AI-driven HPC demand - Semiconductor test interface provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) said its revenue in April 2026 continued to set a new all-time monthly high, driven by rising demand for semiconductor testing linked to artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Powering 160,000 hours of discovery at MIT.nano - NanoFab Equipment Management and Operations (NEMO) system streamlines shared facilities management via tool trainings, reservations, and lab communications.
Quantum Breakthrough: New Algorithm Solves “Impossible” Materials in Seconds - A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach. Quantum technologies, including quantum computers, rely on materials that display unusual quantum effects...
From lichens to digits: The evolution of electronic litmus paper - The pH meters are electronic devices designed to measure the acidity or alkalinity by detecting the voltage produced by a specialized sensor. The post From lichens to digits: The evolution of electronic litmus paper appeared first on EDN .
Capacity constraints - Capacity bottlenecks in 3 nm–2 nm wafers and 2.5D/3D advanced packaging persist, says TrendForce. 3nm capacity—currently dominated by TSMC—has become even more constrained, Nvidia preemptively secured large volumes of 4/3 nm wafer capacity, CoWoS packaging, as well as key materials such as T-glass,...
