Semi. Fabs and Clean Rooms 83s ago: TSMC Arizona second fab completed construction, volume production 2027. Micron DRAM megafabs breaking ground in NY and ID. Samsung Taylor TX $17B fab resumed. Tata-PSMC Dholera ~$11B fab groundbreaking, 50k wpm at 28-110nm, pilot end-2026. TSMC Kumamoto second fab approved for 3nm. Global 300mm equipment spend $149B (2026) to $227B (2029). Cleanroom lead times 36-48 months for ISO Class 1 High-NA EUV.
Musk and Anthropic test rival models for sharing AI wealth with the public - The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is best understood as revolutionary in modern society, transforming industries and reshaping daily life as successive rounds of rapid growth push AI deeper into nearly every aspect of social and economic activity.
Perché proprio il carburo di silicio (SiC)? - La specifica di Google, Microsoft e NVIDIA non impone nessuna tecnologia. Ma tre formule spiegano perché, oggi, i suoi numeri portano al SiC.
Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 20 - HBM power consumption; GAAFET leakage pathways; agentic AI for heterogeneous system design; nanoelectromechanical gain-cell eDRAM; AI-accelerated 3D-IC thermal modeling; agentic AI for RTL verification and debugging; thermal side-channel attacks in autonomous vehicles. The post Chip Industry Technical...
Good Golly It’s MOLY - 65 years ago this ad for TI diodes packaged using its Molybdenum Glass hermetic seal technique appeared in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 3 1961: The post Good Golly It’s MOLY appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Electronic System Design Industry Posts $5.7 Billion in Revenue in Q2 2026, ESD Alliance Reports - Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 12.2% to $5,710.8 million in the second quarter of 2026 from the $5,089.4 million registered in the second quarter of 2025, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Coalition, announced today. The post Electronic System Design Industry Posts $5.7 Billion...
WFE to the Moon (Still), Semicon West and OCP Insights - In this action-packed episode of The Circuit, Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg recap a hectic week in Silicon Valley, spanning Semicon West in San Francisco, the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose, and major analyst events. The hosts examine the evolving semicap and wafer equipment landscape—including...
Qualcomm Wins Key Claims Against Arm, but Damages Total Just $2 - The verdict is the latest chapter in a four-year IP dispute between the two chip giants, safeguarding Qualcomm's custom processors while placing financial pressure on Arm. The post Qualcomm Wins Key Claims Against Arm, but Damages Total Just $2 appeared first on EE Times .
Korea cannot dismiss the despair of French youth - Korea cannot dismiss the despair of French youth France’s economic strain and anger among the youth at its entrenched system should serve as a clear warning for Korea to diversify growth, create jobs and make housing more affordable. 10/19/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk
Accelerate Motor Control and Embedded Development With Microchip - Microchip rounds out its newest release wave with tools built for engineers developing and debugging embedded systems—from a dual-core motor control daughter card to an OpenOCD debug probe, a new Curiosity Nano and a functional safety development kit.
Cloud giants’ capital spending to exceed $1.5T in 2027 - The world’s nine largest cloud service providers are expected to spend more than 1.5 trillion dollars on capital investments in 2027, up 60 percent from this year, according to Trendforce.
Researchers Unleash Record-Breaking X-Ray Flashes in Just 300 Attoseconds - Researchers used the European XFEL to produce ultrashort X-ray flashes that reached record intensity for this type of pulse. To understand chemical reactions and perhaps one day control the electrons involved, scientists need a detailed picture of how electrons behave inside atoms and molecules. X-rays...
[News] Huawei Scientist: EDA Tools Pose Biggest Challenge to Tau Scaling Law - Huawei’s Tau (τ) Scaling Law faces its greatest challenge in electronic design automation (EDA) tools, according to Huang Yu, chief scientist for semiconductor EDA at Huawei, speaking at the 2026 Bay Area Chip Expo on October 15, media reports said. Huang outlined four layers of Tau (τ) Sc...
Nanoelectromechanical Switches Target More Efficient Embedded DRAM (UC Berkeley, Samsung, Intel) - Researchers at the UC Berkeley, Samsung Electronics, and Intel published “Nanoelectromechanically Gated Gain Cell eDRAM.” Abstract Excerpt: “The memory wall and the slowdown of static random access memory (SRAM) scaling have renewed interest in gain-cell embedded dynamic random access memory (DRAM)....
Korea’s chip boom swells national income, but leaves workers with little to show - Korea’s chip boom swells national income, but leaves workers with little to show Nearly 80 percent of Korea’s first-half income growth went to companies and self-employed owners, while employee compensation accounted for just 16.5 percent. 10/18/2026 - 05:29 AM News Team
How Singapore Connects Chip Research, Startups, and Manufacturing - From SiC power devices to silicon photonics, Singapore is building the infrastructure and industrial partnerships needed to bring deep-tech research to market. The post How Singapore Connects Chip Research, Startups, and Manufacturing appeared first on EE Times .
Choo Mi-ae's 'Straw Politics' - Initially, Governor Choo targeted the semiconductor tax revenue allocated to local governments in Gyeonggi Province.
Korea cannot dismiss the despair of French youth (KOR) - Korea cannot dismiss the despair of French youth (KOR) France’s economic strain and anger among the youth at its entrenched system should serve as a clear warning for Korea to diversify growth, create jobs and make housing more affordable. 10/19/2026 - 08:26 PM Opinion Desk
Automotive sensor power supply without a switching pre-regulator - An automotive sensor power supply appears deceptively simple to design but in fact poses many formidable challenges. The post Automotive sensor power supply without a switching pre-regulator appeared first on EDN .
Powertip Technology transitions into a solutions provider as demand and costs rise - Powertip Technology is transitioning from a module design and supply company to a solutions provider. The company has seen rising demand in the first half of 2026 as the electronics and manufacturing industries faced higher material costs, which it aims to control by negotiating price adjustments with...
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia: Asia Bucks US Chip Rally - Business and finance news from the Asia-Pacific.Asian stocks dropped, diverging from a chip-led rally on Wall Street, as sentiment toward the artificial intelligence trade remained jittery ahead of key earnings this week that will test the strength of gains in the technology sector. The MSCI Asia Pacific...
Korea growth may top IMF forecast - Korea growth may top IMF forecast Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il said strong exports and investment could lift growth above the IMF's 3.3 percent projection. 10/18/2026 - 11:04 PM
Agentic AI Explores Heterogeneous Chip and Interconnect Architectures (Argonne, UIUC) - Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published a technical paper titled “Agentic AI for Heterogeneous System Design Across Chip, Scale-Up, and Scale-Out Domains.” Abstract Excerpt: “The design space of modern AI/HPC systems has expanded rapidly...
Spectrum Instrumentation digitisers get onboard averaging function - Spectrum Instrumentation has introduced a new firmware option for its high-resolution 59xx series digitizers to perform onboard summation averaging. The tool is for reducing unwanted signal noise while and improving […] The post Spectrum Instrumentation digitisers get onboard averaging function appeared...
Scientists Turn Ordinary Plastic Into Billions of Tiny Diamonds Using Powerful Lasers - Diamonds recovered from plastic contain roughly 3,000 atoms each and could be modified with other elements for future use in medical imaging. Powerful lasers can turn plastic into tiny diamonds, but recovering the crystals means catching them as they shoot out at speeds comparable to a meteorite impact....
Who Wants A Sports Car? - Tesla unveiled its flying Roadster last week, marking a return to the company’s roots. The very first vehicle Tesla ever sold was an electric sports car. The new Roadster is […] The post Who Wants A Sports Car? appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
SFP: The multimode module autopsy - A dissimilar laser technology trades off range for cost, at least theoretically. But it’s still faster than the LED-based predecessor. The post SFP: The multimode module autopsy appeared first on EDN .
Multidimensional Microscope Reveals Ultrafast Changes in Materials - To understand the microscopic processes underlying quantum and optoelectronic materials, it is necessary to observe how the materials evolve in across space and time. Existing techniques cannot simultaneously resolve ultrafast coherent dynamics with microscopic spatial information. Pump-probe microscopy...
From Macro to Micro, and Back - This year’s Nobel prizes explained large systems through their smallest parts. What can chip design learn from them, and can AI help us design in the other direction too? The post From Macro to Micro, and Back appeared first on EE Times .
Samsung, Micron, Hynix to use TSMC base dies for NVHBM - Nvidia has asked Samsung. Hynix and Micron to use base dies made on TSMC’s 3nm node for its custom HBM called NVHBM (pictured), reports the Seoul Economic Daily. The base dies […] The post Samsung, Micron, Hynix to use TSMC base dies for NVHBM appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Scientists Discover Metals That Refuse To Crack at an Astonishing -424°F - Two experimental alloys resisted cracking at −424°F by forming new crystal defects, offering a possible route to tougher metals for extreme cold. Most metals become stronger as they cool, but some also become more vulnerable to breaking. Iron, tungsten, and chromium belong to a class called body-centered...
Spending looks different when you're in charge - Spending looks different when you're in charge A record budget and temporary tax windfall should prompt debt reduction and stronger oversight before new spending becomes permanent. 10/18/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk
Maskless EUV Lithography: An Alternative to E-Beam - Semiconductor manufacturing depends on lithography: the process of transferring tiny circuit patterns onto a silicon wafer. Conventional extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography projects light with a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers through a reflective optical system, using a custom photomask to define each...
Who Gets to Move the Recipe? How Autonomous Agents Earn Decision Authority in the Fab - There’s a question I’ve started asking at every agentic AI demo I sit through, and it has a clean answer in every fab on earth: who is allowed to change the recipe? In a semiconductor factory, that was settled decades ago. A person doesn’t touch a production recipe because they feel confident.…...
Innodisk’s DDR5 8000 RDIMM addresses edge AI - Innodisk is expanding its DDR5 portfolio with 8000 RDIMM for compute-intensive applications, such as edge AI and enterprise servers. As the name indicates, the modules deliver data transfer speeds of […] The post Innodisk’s DDR5 8000 RDIMM addresses edge AI appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
From boon to burden: AI spending woes leave Kospi among worst-performing major indexes - From boon to burden: AI spending woes leave Kospi among worst-performing major indexes Concerns over AI infrastructure spending are hitting Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, magnifying losses across Korea’s stock market. 10/20/2026 - 06:24 AM JIN MIN-JI, LEE JAE-LIM
Foreigners buying US shares for AI bet - Foreign buying of US shares has increased sharply in the last four years, according to the IMF. The figures published in the IMF Global Financial Stability Report this October are […] The post Foreigners buying US shares for AI bet appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Building Physical AI Systems That Can Work in the Real World - Build scalable physical AI by balancing compute, power, safety, and cost—see why system architecture outperforms raw model size. The post Building Physical AI Systems That Can Work in the Real World appeared first on EE Times .
Samsung transfers 126 technologies free of charge to 99 smaller Korean firms - Samsung Electronics has transferred 126 of its mobile, display, and home appliance technologies free of charge to 99 small and midsize companies this year, with mobile technologies making up the bulk of the handover, according to South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources, which hosted the...
Kospi goes from global outperformer to world's worst performer - Kospi goes from global outperformer to world's worst performer After a record-setting start to the year, Korea's leading stock index has been the world's worst since the start of October due to a sharp sell-off in heavyweight chip stocks. 10/19/2026 - 02:37 AM News Team
Chip Startup Tenstorrent Raises Funds at $6.2 Billion Value - AI chip startup Tenstorrent Inc., after attracting takeover interest earlier this year, has raised $1.5 billion from investors in a funding round that boosts its valuation to $6.2 billion.
Technical Report: EPC EPC2366 7th-Generation 40 V 0.8 mΩ GaN HEMT Process Flow - The EPC2366 is a 40 V enhancement-mode eGaN® power transistor as EPC’s first Gen 7 eGaN device to enter mass production. It combines an ultra-low RDS(ON) of 0.84 mΩ, low gate charge of 15 nC, and high current capability of up to 88 A continuous/360 A pulsed in a compact 3.3 × 2.6 mm PQFN package....
The Workforce Behind the Roadmap - For three years, every semiconductor conference has featured some version of the same slide: the industry doesn’t have enough people to build what it’s promising. This month, SEMI’s National Network for Microelectronics Education (NNME), backed by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department...
Why Physical AI Is So Hard To Engineer - Integrating sensors, compute, and actuators into autonomous systems adds new challenges for chip design. The post Why Physical AI Is So Hard To Engineer appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Fiber optic gyroscopes: Elegant engineering of modern inertial navigation - Fiber optic gyroscope (FOG), a marvel of solid-state engineering, bridges Einstein’s relativity with modern tactical guidance. The post Fiber optic gyroscopes: Elegant engineering of modern inertial navigation appeared first on EDN .
