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Kioxia and Nvidia develop SSDs 100x faster for next-gen servers - Kioxia, Japan's leading memory chip maker, is partnering with Nvidia to develop a revolutionary solid-state drive (SSD) nearly 100 times faster than conventional models. The new drive, designed for generative AI servers, is scheduled for a 2027 debut and will connect directly to graphics processors (GPUs)....

South Korea's Mobilint expands edge AI reach through Taiwan, US partnerships

How did SK hynix beat Samsung? - The reason they were able to push HBM forward

KLA Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Date

Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel - The novel design allows the membranes to withstand high temperatures when separating hydrogen from gas mixtures.

Weikeng Joins MIFARE Partner Program as a Premium Partner - Weikeng Joins MIFARE Partner Program as a Premium Partner.

Scaling Debug Wisdom with Bronco AI - In the business press today I still find a preference for reporting proof-of-concept accomplishments for AI applications: passing a bar exam with a top grade, finding cancerous tissue in X-rays more accurately than junior radiologists, and so on. Back in the day we knew that a proof-of-concept, however...

Podcast EP309: The State of RISC-V and the Upcoming RISC-V Summit with Andrea Gallo

CEO Interview with David Zhi LuoZhang of Bronco AI

Spinel-type sulfide semiconductors achieve room-temperature light emission across violet to orange spectrum - A spinel-type sulfide semiconductor that can emit light from violet to orange at room temperature has been developed by researchers at Science Tokyo, overcoming the efficiency limitations of current LED and solar cell materials. ...

半導體風雲／TEL社長再會魏哲家提出新懲處賠償達協議 - 東京威力科創（TEL）前員工捲入台積電2奈米洩密，其社長兼執行長河合利樹9 9 專程來台向台積電董事長魏哲家賠罪，未料僅談賠償未談懲處的態度，反而惹怒魏哲家。東京威力科創為維護與台積電長期合作關係，並平息魏哲家怒火，近...

SiPearl unveils Athena1 sovereign processor for dual-use - SiPearl has launched its new Athena1 processor, a bespoke chip aimed at meeting the demanding…

How NTN NB-IoT enables a truly connected world and the role of test

Elektor Lab Talk #39 to Spotlight Wireless & Communication Trends

IoT market to exceed $1.1 trillion by 2030

Turning chip datasheets into AI-structured workflows for embedded engineers

Bosch Mobility to cut 13,000 Jobs by 2030 in $2.5 billion restructuring

Fujitsu expands strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver full-stack AI infrastructure

Why Financial Firms Choose Intel® Xeon® 6: Proven Performance in Real-World Trading - Intel® Xeon® 6 processors deliver superior performance in STAC & QuantLib benchmarks.

Quantum cascade lasers on a mid-infrared silicon photonic platform - Devices achieve 180K T 0 , comparable to state-of-the-art devices on native III-V substrates.

Distributed Authentication Framework Leveraging Multi-Party Computation In A Scalable Tree-Based Architecture (Univ. of Central Florida, Louisiana State) - A new technical paper titled “AuthenTree: A Scalable MPC-Based Distributed Trust Architecture for Chiplet-based Heterogeneous Systems” was published by researchers at University of Central Florida and Louisiana State University. Abstract “The rapid adoption of chiplet-based heterogeneous integration...

New Spectre Branch Target Injection, Spectre-BTI, Attack Primitives On CPUs (ETH Zurich)

Taiwan rejects US chip split, five-year plan meeting, ‘golden week’ travel - This week: Taiwan refuses to share chip production with US, dates set for key Communist Party meeting, US expands Chinese companies blacklist. Next week: ‘Golden week’ travel data, September auto sales, NBA returns to China and more

Lam Researchers Spotlight Etch Breakthrough for Advanced Packaging - A critical step toward enabling the next wave of advanced packaging

Why Korea\u2019s Gal\u00E1pagos-ization Became a Blessing in the AI Era - For true sovereign AI, there must be a sovereign internet platform

Researchers develop fat-like nanoparticles to treat fatty liver disease - Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have developed a novel RNA-based therapy that could transform treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis ...

OCuLink outpaces Thunderbolt 5 in Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti tests — latter up to 14% slower on average in gaming benchmarks - Independent tests confirm that while Thunderbolt 5 improves eGPU performance over Thunderbolt 4, OCuLink's direct PCIe connection delivers superior gaming and bandwidth results, although it remains impractical for most users.

Best MicroSD Express Cards for Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025 — the best cards on the market, benchmarked and ranked

Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980

One of the fastest 2TB PCIe 5.0 SSDs is down to its lowest price ever, 8 cents per gigabyte this Prime Day — Enjoy blazing-fast PCIe 5.0 storage for only $159

Hyper 212 Pro CPU air cooler drops to an all-time low of $18 just before Prime Day — save big with a 49% discount

Measurement of the low temperature dependence in semiconductor materials by laser excited Raman spectroscopy

Dioxoindoloindol-ylidene-malononitrile and benzodifurandione connected organic semiconductors for n -type unencapsulated field-effect transistors

Is AMD fabbing at Intel Foundry? - A few days ago, a financial note went around saying AMD is going to fab chips at Intel Foundry. Read more ▶ The post Is AMD fabbing at Intel Foundry? appeared first on Semiaccurate .

Physicists maneuver DNA molecules using electrical fields, offering real-time control - Researchers in McGill's Department of Physics have developed a new device that can trap and study DNA molecules without touching or damaging them. The device, which uses carefully tuned electric fields, offers scientists ...

Ultra-thin sodium films offer low-cost alternative to gold and silver in optical technologies

Qualcomm's big win over Arm could reverberate throughout the industry — ALA licensees could potentially develop custom designs without renegotiating terms - Qualcomm's legal victory over Arm not only secures its right to deploy Nuvia's custom CPU cores under its existing license but also sets a major industry precedent, weakening Arm’s control over licensing as it pivots toward designing its own CPUs.

Crucial's 20Gb/s X10 Pro 2TB external SSD is only $149 in this early Amazon Prime Day deal — rugged and portable USB-C storage for tech lovers

AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade

Nvidia details efficiency of the NVFP4 format for LLM training — new paper reveals how NVFP4 offers benefits over FP8 and BF16

Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has 'a lot of work to do' — would consider it for Tenstorrent AI chip production, already in talks with TSMC, Rapidus, and Samsung for 2nm tech

GameStop promises to keep selling Game Pass Ultimate for $19.99 — company defies Microsoft's 50% price increase

How Nvidia's deal with Intel has been decades in the making — Years of rivalry culminated in an unexpected alliance

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures get official confirmation — Latest ISA reference doc details the P-Cores and E-Cores upcoming CPUs will use

Building tomorrow’s innovators: Micron International Academy completes second cohort

Tobii and STMicroelectronics enter mass production of breakthrough interior sensing technology

Developing predictive maintenance for power converters - Youssof Fassi’s ambition recognized at APEC and PCIM - Youssof Fassi, a PhD student at CEA-Leti, is harnessing artificial intelligence to tackle the challenge of optimizing the reliability of electronic power systems. Linking data and physical models, he is developing hybrid approaches to predictive maintenance that have garnered awards at the APEC...

Government pushes semiconductor design innovation with the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme

English rendering of PM’s speech during Semicon India 2025 at Yashobhoomi, Delhi

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurates Semicon India 2025 in New Delhi

Semicon India 2025 Showcases Indian Startups Accelerating the Roadmap for Aatmanirbhar Chips under the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi presented with First set of Made-in-India Chips; Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Calls It a Moment of Pride Thanking PM for his farsighted vision, strong will and decisive action

Major Milestone in India’s Semiconductor Journey as one of India’s first end-to-end OSAT Pilot Line Facility Launched in Sanand, Gujarat

Developing Advanced Packaging Supply Chains for Onshore Microelectronics Production

Blue Laser Fusion wins US DOE 2025 INFUSE project award - Colorado State University to collaborate on high-energy pulsed laser optics to advance fusion energy commercialization

Chip Industry Week in Review - OpenAI DRAM capacity deals in Korea; $4.4B IC equipment merger; Taiwan rebuffs US' 50-50 split offer; EU Chips Act revision; Meta buys RISC-V startup; foundry report; imec transition; NIST disses DeepSeek; China's litho overblown; H-1B weighted system. The post Chip Industry Week in Review appeared first...

Webinar – The Path to Smaller, Denser, and Faster with CPX, Samtec’s Co-Packaged Copper and Optics - For markets such as data center, high-performance computing, networking and AI accelerators the battle cry is often “copper is dead”. The tremendous demands for performance and power efficiency often lead to this conclusion. As is the case with many technology topics, things are not always the way...

nRF Connect SDK and Zephyr RTOS power innovative IoT development

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT - Panel discussions focused on innovation in many forms of energy, then a tour of campus featured student research.

Interior sensing empowers camera for driver, occupancy monitoring - Image sensor integrates interior sensing algorithms to enhance driver and passenger monitoring for a European carmaker. The post Interior sensing empowers camera for driver, occupancy monitoring appeared first on Planet Analog .

Determining Effects on PDN Target Impedance Using Sigrity X - Ensuring a functional power distribution network (PDN) for chips, packages, and PCBs…

Serial and UPDI Handled Together With One Convenient Circuit - Sometimes it’s nice when you can do everything you need to do with just one single port. In this vein, [Nicola Strappazzon] whipped up a circuit to combine serial and …read more

Samsung and S&S Tech co-files EUV pellicle patent - Blank mask maker S&S Tech and Samsung have filed a co-patent related to extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pellicle frame in South Korea, TheElec has learned.Patent number 1020240030406, titled a frame assembly for the attachment for pellicle on a photomask used in photo-lithography, was filed in March last

Virtuoso Studio Refreshed for Modern Outlook - Our new AI-powered custom design solution, Virtuoso Studio, leverages our 30 years…

Cirrascale CEO: ‘More Specialized Hardware Will Be Needed’ - AI neocloud company Cirrascale constantly evaluates startup hardware, since inference will require heterogeneous solutions. The post Cirrascale CEO: ‘More Specialized Hardware Will Be Needed’ appeared first on EE Times .

A Modular System In Package Approach For Automotive Short Range Radar Applications (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Fraunhofer et al.) - A new technical paper titled “Leveraging Modularity of Chiplets to Form a 4×4 Automotive FMCW-Radar in an eWLB-Package” was published by researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Fraunhofer Institute, University Bremen, Infineon and WavesenseDD GmbH. Abstract “Dividing a System on Chip (SoC) into...

Scaling Nanoribbon Transistors Based on Monolayer 2D Semioconductors (Stanford, HORIBA, SLAC)

CDI For The Metrology Of Copper Pads Used In Hybrid Bonding (Paul Scherrer Institute, Samsung)

Lightweight AI Techniques For Automated Inspection of Silicon Wafers (Fraunhofer)

Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips - Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator

[News] Microsoft Vows Greater Push for In-House Chips to Cut NVIDIA Reliance Amid Development Concerns - As cloud giants push forward with self-designed AI hardware to cut reliance on NVIDIA, Microsoft is aiming high. According to CNBC, the tech giant plans to increasingly use its own custom silicon in data centers, with the long-term goal of relying primarily on its in-house chips. Speaking at Ital...

[News] Latest U.S. Export Curbs on Chinese Blacklisted Subsidiaries Could Cost Applied Materials $710M

[News] Fujitsu and NVIDIA to Co-Develop AI Chip by 2030, Powering Supercomputers and Robotics

STMicroelectronics announces timing for third quarter 2025 earnings release and conference call

PTC expands service lifecycle management AI for ServiceMax and Servigistics - PTC has announced updates to its service lifecycle management AI portfolio, adding agentic AI functions to both ServiceMax and Servigistics platforms. The agentic AI enhancements focus…

India joins XR optics race with Kaynes-DigiLens waveguide line - Kaynes Technology has opened India's first waveguide manufacturing line in Mysuru in partnership with US-based DigiLens, placing the country in the global supply chain for extended reality (XR) and defense optics.