Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly useful for the prediction of emergency events such as heart attacks, natural disasters, and pipeline failures. This requires state-of-the-art technologies that can rapidly process...
NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and develops and manufactures high-power industrial blue lasers — has received a notice of non-compliance from the NYSE American Market indicating that it has become...
Diamfab of Grenoble, France (which synthesizes diamond wafers and designs diamond-based electronic components as well as developing the corresponding manufacturing processes) and plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthetic...
Aeluma Inc of Goleta, CA, USA – which uses compound semiconductor materials on large-diameter substrates to develop technologies for mobile, automotive, AI, defense & aerospace, communication and quantum computing – has been awarded a...
Following the completion of due diligence, the US Department of Commerce has confirmed the award (proposed in February) of up to $1.5bn in direct funding through the US CHIPS and Science Act to New York-headquartered GlobalFoundries (GF,...
US Geological Survey (USGS) researchers have developed a new model to assess how disruptions of critical mineral supplies may affect the US economy. Using the model, the researchers estimate that there could be a $3.4bn decrease in US...
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Critical Materials Innovation Hub (CMI Hub) has announced up to $10m in federal funding to accelerate the early-stage technology R&D necessary to reduce material criticality for energy innovations...
The Public Authorities Board (PAB) of the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) has selected the consortium with which it will start negotiations to establish the Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) pilot line for Europe...
ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany says that its OSLON Black Flat S family of LEDs has established itself as a light source for forward lighting in both four- and two-wheeled vehicles, since its robust black...
A new technology that can generate electricity from vibrations or even small body movements means you could charge your laptop by typing or power your smartphone's battery on your morning run.
ASMPT Ltd says that its new high-precision AMICRA NANO die and flip-chip bonder has been specially developed for the production of co-packaged optics where optical and electronic components are integrated in a common housing. With what...
The US government said Wednesday it has finalized a grant with chipmaker GlobalFoundries to support its semiconductor manufacturing investments, as President Joe Biden works to secure parts of his legacy before Donald Trump's White House...
Tokyo-based automated semiconductor test & measurement equipment maker Advantest Corp has unveiled the Wave Scale RF20ex instrument for the V93000 EXA Scale platform, enabling customers to test virtually any type of radio frequency (RF)...
Specialty analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd of Migdal Haemek, Israel has begun volume production of 1.6Tbps silicon photonic products for multiple lead customers based on its latest silicon photonics (SiPho) platform. The firm’s...
Materials, networking and laser technology firm Coherent Corp of Saxonburg, PA, USA has announced the production release of high-speed indium phosphide (InP) photodiodes...
AlixLabs AB of Lund, Sweden — which was spun off from Lund University in 2019 and has developed the Atomic Layer Etching (ALE) Pitch Splitting technology (APS) — has been granted SEK4m (about €345,000) in funding from Swedish innovation...
Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which dominates the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom.
Japan is readying a $65-billion push in microchips and artificial intelligence aimed at reclaiming its status as a global tech leader and meeting the urgent challenges of its aging, shrinking population.
Scintil Photonics of Grenoble, France and Toronto, Canada, a fabless developer of augmented silicon photonic integrated circuits, has appointed Matt Crowley as chief executive officer and established a US subsidiary to support its...
In a trading update, epiwafer and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says it expects revenue for full-year 2024 of about £115m, roughly flat with 2023’s £115.3m (rather than September’s forecast of year-on-year growth, to the...
Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA — which makes silicon carbide (SiC) materials and power semiconductor devices — says that its board of directors has determined and agreed with Gregg Lowe that in November he will depart from his roles as...
For third-quarter 2024, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €156.3m (up 18.6% on €131.8m last quarter but down 5% on €165m a year ago). This is in the lower half of the...
For third-quarter 2024, CVD Equipment Corp of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of chemical vapor deposition, thermal processing, physical vapor transport, gas and chemical delivery control systems, and other equipment and...
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has invested an additional $160m of funds from the Biden–Harris Administration’s ‘Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act’ to advance US microelectronics...
Over the past decades, electronics and biomedical engineers have developed increasingly sophisticated biosensors, devices that can pick up biological signals from human users. These sensors, which are generally embedded in wearable or...
The United States will award Taiwanese chip giant TSMC up to $6.6 billion in direct funding to help build several plants on US soil, officials said Friday, finalizing the deal before Donald Trump's administration enters the White House.
In booth #810 at Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) in Atlanta, GA, USA (17–22 November), silicon photonics-based chip-to-chip optical connectivity firm Ayar Labs of San Jose, CA, USA is demonstrating a broad range of optical I/O implementations...
Governor Greg Abbott says that the first Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF) grant of $4,120,000 has been extended to Intelligent Epitaxy Technology Inc (IntelliEPI) of Richardson, TX, USA — which manufactures molecular beam...
Fabless company Wise-integration of Hyeres, France — which was spun off from CEA-Leti in 2020 and designs and develops digital-control of gallium nitride (GaN) and GaN integrated circuits for power conversion — has opened its North...
A strategic collaboration has been announced to use micro-transfer printing (MTP) for the heterogeneous integration of the silicon photonics platform of analog/mixed-signal and specialty foundry X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE of Tessenderlo,...
Imagine this: You're at an office job, wearing noise-canceling headphones to dampen the ambient chatter. A co-worker arrives at your desk and asks a question, but rather than needing to remove the headphones and say, "What?", you hear...
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp has developed new 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs with an innovative structure that delivers both low on-resistance (RDS(ON)) and high reliability. The devices are particularly suited to...
Akash Systems of Oakland, CA, USA has signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms with the US Department of Commerce under the CHIPS and Science Act to receive over $68m in direct funding. This includes $18.2m in proposed direct...
Fabless firm Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd (CGD) — which was spun out of the University of Cambridge in 2016 to design, develop and commercialize power transistors and ICs that use GaN-on-silicon substrates — and IFP Energies nouvelles...
BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia — which develops and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diodes based on its proprietary low-temperature, low-hydrogen remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology — has...
Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA and Richardson Electronics Ltd of LaFox, IL, USA have announced an expanded distribution partnership for silicon...
Korean electronics company, LG Display Co., Ltd. has announced on its product development page that it has developed a video screen that can be stretched from its default length of 12 inches to 18 inches.
Following the announcement in February of a conditional commitment, as part of the Biden–Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda the US Department of Energy (DOE) has now confirmed a $544m loan ($481.5m of principal and...
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), semiconductor-based devices that emit light when an electric current flows through them, are key building blocks of numerous electronic devices. LEDs are used to light up smartphone, computer, and TV...
Singapore-based wet etch and clean solutions provider NexGen Wafer Systems has launched SERENO its latest multi-chamber platform (available now for orders, with first deliveries starting in first-quarter 2025)...
Solid State Physics Laboratory, a research arm of the Indian Ministry of Defence’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed indigenous processes for growing and manufacturing 4-inch-diameter silicon carbide...
Sivers Semiconductors AB of Kista, Sweden (which supplies RF beam-former ICs for SATCOMs and photonic lasers for AI data centers) says that its board of directors has decided to put on hold its discussions with byNordic Acquisition Corp...
NS Nanotech Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA — a University of Michigan Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) spin-off co-founded by professor Zetian Mi in 2017 that develops gallium nitride nanowire LEDs for visible displays and UVC...
Cree LED Inc of Durham, NC, USA (a Penguin Solutions brand) has launched its new CV28D LEDs with FusionBeam Technology, providing an advance for the LED signage market. The CV28D LED combines the latest through-hole and surface-mount...
On 14 November, Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is commencing shipment of samples of a silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) bare die for use in drive-motor inverters of electric vehicles...
ROHM Semiconductor has launched surface-mount SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) that improve insulation resistance by increasing the creepage distance between terminals. The initial lineup includes eight models (SCS2xxxNHR) for...
Silicon carbide wafer manufacturing technology firm TekSiC AB of Linköping, Sweden has appointed Joachim Tollstoy as chief executive officer, effective 7 October. With over 15 years of leadership experience, Tollstoy has an understanding...
Fabless firm Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd (CGD) — which was spun out of the University of Cambridge in 2016 to design, develop and commercialize power transistors and ICs that use GaN-on-silicon substrates — and Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC,...
For its fiscal second-quarter 2025 (ended 28 September 2024), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $1046.5m. This...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA — which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) and integrated circuits for power management applications — says that the...