Southern Taiwan Science Park revenue nears NT$3 trillion in 2025 - The Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) reported revenue of NT$2.97 trillion (US$93.5 billion) in 2025, up 34.26% from 2024, benefiting from the AI wave and strong demand for advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. The total fell just short of the NT$3 trillion milestone previously projected by...
Quantum handshake: How orbital overlap dictates molecular conductance - By placing single-atom-thick adlayers of p-block metals on commonly employed gold electrodes (d-block), a research team at National Taiwan University has successfully quantified the "interfacial hopping integral" between ...
AI server tracker: February revenue highlights across testing, design services, and rail kits - The global AI server supply chain continues to demonstrate steady growth, according to February 2026 revenue reports from key companies in the testing, design services, and mechanical infrastructure sectors. While seasonal factors such as the Lunar New Year holiday influenced month-over-month figures,...
Expert Webinar on EV Battery Material Trends - Join IDTechEx Technology Analyst Daniel Parr on Thursday 19th March for the expert-led webinar, "How EV Battery Material Trends Lead to Lower Prices and Increased Energy Density". Choose your preferred time zone - the webinar runs three times in one day.
FineX. Makes shielding clear. - Panasonic Industry launches high transparency, low resistance, flexible transparent conductive film for electromagnetic wave shield with pre applied OCA
IBM and Lam Research Announce Collaboration to Advance Sub-1nm Logic Scaling - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) today announced a collaboration aimed at developing new processes and materials to support sub-1nm logic scaling. Building on a long record of successful partnerships, the new agreement will focus on the joint development of novel materials, fabrication...
TsangYow accelerates NEV and semiconductor equipment expansion with SEA capacity - Transmission system manufacturer TsangYow has been steadily advancing its presence in high-value sectors such as electric buses, new energy vehicles (NEVs), and semiconductor equipment. As these products enter prototyping and validation stages, the market anticipates that once customer certifications...
IBM, Lam Research Focus High-NA EUV on Sub-1-nm Nodes - IBM and Lam Research have a five-year agreement focused on developing new materials and fabrication processes. The post IBM, Lam Research Focus High-NA EUV on Sub-1-nm Nodes appeared first on EE Times .
PLS extends UDE 2026 for sampling via debug interfaces - PLS unveiled its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) 2026 at Embedded World in Nuremberg. As well as new features, the range of supported high-end MCUs and embedded processors has also been expanded. Data can now be determined not only by the trace system of the respective microcontroller, but also by sampling...
Embedded World 2026 Wrap: Key Highlights - Discover the biggest trends in physical AI and robotics from Embedded World 2026. The post Embedded World 2026 Wrap: Key Highlights appeared first on EE Times .
Applied Materials Raises Quarterly Cash Dividend by 15 Percent - SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 15-percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend, from $0.46 to $0.53 per share, payable on June 11, 2026 to shareholders of record as of May 21, 2026.
26.3% 2025 revenue rise for ten top foundries - The leading ten foundries achieved around $169.5 billion in revenue in 2025, a 26.3% YoY increase that set a new industry record, reports TSMC. In Q4 the combined revenue of the world’s top ten foundries up 2.6% QoQ to nearly $46.3 billion. TSMC saw slightly lower wafer shipments in 4Q25, but 3nm smartphone...
Chip Industry Week In Review - Preparing for sub-1nm; Iran war fallout on chips; Embedded World announcements; ramping Japan; top 10 foundries; MIPI PHY IP; clocking tech; cybersecurity policy; imec's new consortium; neuromorphic computing. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
[News] China’s No.3 Foundry Nexchip to Hike Prices 10% from June, Following SMIC, Hua Hong - As 8-inch capacity tightens and operating costs climb, foundries are bracing for a new wave of price hikes. Following Chinese peers led by SMIC, Nexchip, the country’s third-largest foundry, announced on March 12 a 10% increase in foundry fees starting June 2026, TechNews reports. According to ...
Meta's MTIA Roadmap - Inference-centric design. ROIC is clear. Implications for the industry.
Allowing atoms to come and go can open the door to better materials modeling - Most materials, especially metals and ceramics, are crystals. Their atoms are arranged in three-dimensional lattices that repeat the same exact pattern, over and over again. But there's a well-known saying in materials science: ...
Redefining Industrial Safety and Efficiency with Ultra Wideband Technology - Safety and productivity finally align. Redpoint Positioning and Tsingoal use Qorvo UWB to deliver centimeter-level, SIL2-certified location accuracy—enabling humans and robots to collaborate safely, avoid downtime and power scalable automation across warehouses, factories and smart cities.
Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough Brings the Quantum Internet Closer - First successful demonstration of quantum teleportation between two different quantum dots. An international team of researchers that includes scientists from Paderborn University has achieved a major milestone toward building a future quantum internet. For the first time, the polarization state of a...
Zerendipity Shows Off Stick-On Vapor Chamber - Xerendipity has something new at MWC, a stick-on vapor chamber called the Vapor-Pad. Read more ▶ The post Zerendipity Shows Off Stick-On Vapor Chamber appeared first on Semiaccurate .
Press Release - Duiven, the Netherlands, March 13, 2026 - BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. (the “Company" or "Besi") (Euronext Amsterdam: BESI; OTC markets: BESIY), a…
[News] Samsung and NVIDIA Team Up on Ferroelectric NAND R&D, Key Step Toward 1000-Layer NAND - NVIDIA and Samsung are taking their partnership beyond HBM for GPUs. On March 6, researchers from Samsung Semiconductor Research, NVIDIA, and Georgia Tech unveiled the PINO (Physics-Informed Neural Operator) AI model, capable of analyzing ferroelectric NAND performance 10,000× faster than tradition......
The Silicon Hegemon - Taiwan remains the semiconductor industry's stronghold in 2026, with a tech roadmap aimed at next-generation AI systems. The post The Silicon Hegemon appeared first on EE Times .
200-V MOSFETs cut conduction losses - Two devices have joined iDEAL Semiconductor’s SuperQ 200-V MOSFET portfolio, offering very low RDS(on) in standard power packages. The post 200-V MOSFETs cut conduction losses appeared first on EDN .
UMC, HyperLight to mass-produce TFLN photonics chiplets for AI data centers - United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has partnered with startup HyperLight to mass-produce thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) chiplets, aiming to improve data transmission speeds in artificial intelligence computing clusters and data centers.
EW BrightSparks 2025 profile: Harry Hill, Imperial College London - Now in its eighth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. In the next in our EW BrightSparks of 2025 series, we profile Harry Hill, a student of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial...
Human-Centered Agentic AI Comes To RTL Verification - The long-term objective is to let engineers spend more time on what really matters and less time on manual coordination. The post Human-Centered Agentic AI Comes To RTL Verification appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
[News] Google Makes First Appearance in Samsung’s Top Five Clients in 2025 amid Soaring TPU Demand - As NVIDIA reportedly overtook Apple to become TSMC’s largest customer, another chip giant—Samsung Electronics—also saw its key client lineup reshuffled in 2025. According to the company’s latest business report, cited by Korea JoongAng Daily and Sedaily, Google entered Samsung’s top five c......
Scale-Up, Scale-Out Get a New Partner - Key Takeaways: Three AI data center scaling strategies are scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across. Scale-up is within a rack; scale-out is between racks; scale-across is between data centers. Each of the three uses a different interconnect strategy to optimize either latency or jitter. As today’s data...
A long-ago blow leads to water overflow: Who could know? - Mechanical analogies to electronics are common. We might refer to this one as akin to a battery with an internal short circuit? The post A long-ago blow leads to water overflow: Who could know? appeared first on EDN .
