Last Year in SBCs - While it might not be comprehensive, [Bret.dk] recently posted a retrospective titled “Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025.” The post covers 15 boards from 8 different companies. The …read more
RFA ships stages of its RFA ONE rocket to SaxaVord Spaceport - Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), the Bavarian space rocket startup planning to launch from Shetland, is delivering stages of its RFA ONE launch vehicle to SaxaVord spaceport. Specifically, the first and second stages of the rocket have now been delivered, an important milestone towards the first test flight,...
Scientists Just Made Light Do Something Once Thought Impossible - Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize–winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same strange quantum rules once thought exclusive to electrons. In the late 1800s, scientists discovered what is now known as the Hall effect. It occurs when an electric current passes...
Okmetic is participating in Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) - Okmetic will be participating in APEC 2026 – the Applied Power Electronics Conference, one of the leading global events for power electronics professionals. APEC brings together experts, innovators, and industry leaders to explore the latest advancements in power conversion, energy efficiency, semiconductor...
Mitsui partners with Kaynes and AOI Electronics to support Indian OSAT business - Mitsui has concluded a strategic business partnership agreement with Kaynes Semicon Private Limited, an OSAT (semiconductor back-end process) company in India, and AOI Electronics, the largest Japanese OSAT company. The agreement aims to support the start-up and operation of Kaynes' OSAT business and...
Adata chairman expects NAND price surge in 2H26 - Memory module giant Adata reported record-high operations in 2025, with chairman Simon Chen forecasting a strong memory market throughout 2026. He highlighted that upstream manufacturers' inventory levels have dropped to critically low points, supporting their confidence for aggressive price hikes.
Tool Matching Getting Tougher Across Test & Metrology - Key Takeaways Engineers leverage both device-specific and tool-level data to identify a process "sweet spot." Tight, frequent tool-to-tool matching enables greater yield and fab flexibility. Machine learning helps capture the nuances of a tool's signature. Many people outside of the semiconductor industry...
TSMC expansion triggers filter material shortage and price surge - As the global semiconductor manufacturing process advances below 2nm, wafer fabs are demanding increasingly stringent cleanroom environments. This has rapidly boosted demand for airborne molecular contamination (AMC) solutions from major suppliers such as Greenfiltec, Yesiang, and Sweden's Camfil. Driven...
TP-Link’s Kasa EP10: If at first it doesn’t connect, buy, buy again - How different are two generations of smart plugs, and is the recent device’s issue due to hardware, software or a combination of the two? The post TP-Link’s Kasa EP10: If at first it doesn’t connect, buy, buy again appeared first on EDN .
TSMC to hire 8000 new people this year - TSMC said at the weekend that it will hire 8000 more people this year. Engineer recruits with a Masters will be paid an average of $70k. The new hires are needed at TSMC’s facilities in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung. The disciplines being targeted are: electrical engineering,...
Research Bits: Mar. 9 - Low noise clock generator; on-chip thermal sensor; carbon nanotube sandpaper. The post Research Bits: Mar. 9 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Japan looking for $250bn semi output by 2040 - The Council for Japan’s Growth Strategy, chaired by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (pictured), has produced a plan be implemented in the sumner which includes a target of having $250 billion in domestic chip output by 2040, reports the Nikkei. In 2020, sales of Japanese domestically produced semiconductors...
Scientists Find a Way To Control Heat Flow With Electricity - Scientists have discovered that applying an electric field to certain ceramics can dramatically redirect how heat moves through them. New research from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, carried out with collaborators at The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation, is challenging...
Unified, Traceable Framework For Risk Assessment in Automotive Semiconductors (Robert Bosch) - A new technical paper, “An Integrated Failure and Threat Mode and Effect Analysis (FTMEA) Framework with Quantified Cross-Domain Correlation Factors for Automotive Semiconductors,” was published by researchers at Robert Bosch GmbH. Abstract “The automotive industry faces increasing challenges in...
Supporting Young Cultural Exchange: Japan School Working Group Visits ROHM - Recently, ROHM welcomed the Japan school working group of the German Robert-Schuman-Europaschule to our site in Willich. The visit marks an important step in ROHM’s support for international education and intercultural exchange. As...
Protonic nickelate device networks for spatiotemporal neuromorphic computing - An all-nickelate platform based on hydrogenated perovskite nickelates combines proton-mediated transient dynamics with multilevel resistance states; this integration yields emergent spatiotemporal processing and memory for efficient neuromorphic computing.
Nvidia halts China-bound H200 production, shifts TSMC capacity to Vera Rubin - Nvidia has halted production of artificial intelligence (AI) chips intended for the Chinese market and redirected manufacturing capacity at TSMC to its next-generation Vera Rubin platform, as regulatory barriers in both the US and China continue to cloud prospects for sales to Chinese customers, the Financial...
