Semi. Fabs and Clean Rooms 4¾h ago: SK Hynix adopting staggered cleanroom and equipment installation strategy tied to actual demand rather than aggressive expansion. Samsung Taylor Texas first fab on track with second fab construction starting next month. Tata Dholera fab targeting 2028 commissioning. Cleanroom shortages easing H2 2027. TSMC 2nm at 65% yield. WIN Semiconductors utilization at 75% with strong margins.
AI Demand Revives Magnetic Tapes, HDDs - A source from the semiconductor industry stated, “As the AI industry grows, the importance of technologies that store vast data at low cost and power also increases.
AI Investment Shift to Proving Value, Says Omdia - Geopolitical conflicts and semiconductor shortages continue to impact supply chains, meaning only resilient companies can turn disruptions into opportunities.
LMI Acquires Vitronic's Weld Seam Inspection Business Unit - LMI Technologies has acquired the Weld Seam Inspection business unit (WSI) of Vitronic Machine Vision. The WSI business unit specializes in delivering turnkey inspection systems, including advanced edge AI vision capabilities, to the complex environment of safety-critical post-weld inspection. VITRONIC...
[News] SK hynix Eyes EUV-Driven 6F² Scaling, Keeps 4F² and 3D DRAM in Play as Micron Holds Back - While Micron has ruled out adopting 4F² DRAM currently, saying the technology is “not on the roadmap right now,” SK hynix is keeping the door open. During its 3Q26 earnings call, the Korean memory giant said it plans to maximize the potential of its existing 6F² architecture through process i......
Infineon to put €1.1bn into GaN fab - Infineon intends to build the first high-volume 300mm GaN fab by investing around €1.1 billion in its llVillach site by 2034. The EU is contributing €319 million towards the cost. […] The post Infineon to put €1.1bn into GaN fab appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
A viable alternative to braided shielded cable - Braided shielded cable is the standard, but a new alternative may provide superior RF performance along with other beneficial attributes. The post A viable alternative to braided shielded cable appeared first on EDN .
Transitioning Legacy Aircraft Power Architectures to High-Density Switching Supplies - High-density switching supplies help modernize legacy aircraft power systems while addressing obsolescence, efficiency, integration, and compliance challenges. The post Transitioning Legacy Aircraft Power Architectures to High-Density Switching Supplies appeared first on EE Times .
Optical Thermometry in Monolayer WS2: Raman and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy from 5 K to 1273 K - Reliable temperature measurement is essential for characterizing and engineering two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor devices, yet optical thermometry of 2D materials has so far been demonstrated only over narrow temperature windows spanning a few hundred kelvin. Here, we establish a comprehensive optical...
Photoinduced charging and spatially selective photochemistry on ferroelectric surfaces - …interfacial reactions on uniformly polarized ferroelectrics and domain patterns, for dry surfaces and surfaces in contact with an electrochemically active solution. A common semiconductor transport and charge-conservation framework distinguishes five cases: an isolated dry ferroelectric, a dry ferroelectric...
Infineon to Invest €1.1 Billion in Key Austrian Chip Factory - Infineon Technologies AG will spend €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) over eight years to expand its key power chip factory in Austria, a bet on growing demand for energy-efficient semiconductors for AI data centers, electric vehicles and robotics.
Cambridge Heavy Industries Raises $6.2M Seed Round - Cambridge Heavy Industries, an MIT spinout and developer of compact fusion machines, emerged from stealth with a $6.2 million seed round. The company intends to leverage the capital to construct its first compact fusion reactor at its facility in...
Flash heating offers faster way to recover critical metal from e-waste - Many electronic devices use flame-retardant plastic as casing in order to reduce the risk of electrical fires. This plastic is formulated using a metal called antimony along with organic bromide compounds. In fact, 39% of ...
How to Tackle Hidden Production Risks in Semiconductor Operations - Fabs apply enormous engineering discipline to their tools and recipes, but manual operations such as wafer lot packaging, reticle transport, preventive maintenance and parts cleaning get far less structured scrutiny, even though valuable material passes through human hands hundreds of times a day. Craig...
From 54% to 100%: Scientists Reveal a Potential Breakthrough in Quantum Technology - Scientists have proposed a surprisingly simple way to improve photon absorption using specially engineered waveguides, potentially making future quantum technologies far more efficient. Quantum technologies depend on a process that remains surprisingly unreliable: transferring a single photon between...
How to Evaluate Semiconductor IP Before Integrating It into Your SoC - Choosing semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is a decision about the entire chip development process. A core may provide the required function yet still create substantial work when its interfaces, timing assumptions, verification models, or physical characteristics do not fit the system. For an...
Two SK hynix leveraged ETFs to shut down after just 3 months - Two SK hynix leveraged ETFs to shut down after just 3 months Tradr ETFs will close its long and short SK hynix funds after both posted losses within months of launching. 10/27/2026 - 12:06 AM News Team
Fix outdated rules on nuclear plant extensions (KOR) - Fix outdated rules on nuclear plant extensions (KOR) Korea should speed reactor extension reviews without compromising safety as power demand rises for AI and chip industries. 10/28/2026 - 08:32 PM Opinion Desk
[News] China’s First 12-Inch Polycrystalline Silicon Carbide Substrate Unveiled - Hunan Titan Future Technology has developed China’s first 12-inch polycrystalline silicon carbide (SiC) substrate, according to an October 26 report by Changsha Evening News. Based in Wangcheng Economic and Technological Development Zone in Changsha, the company has designed the substrate for a...
Amazon, Apple and Microsoft: New mobile computing platforms take off - Considering current semiconductor constraints, this has been a surprisingly busy October from a systems-release standpoint. The post Amazon, Apple and Microsoft: New mobile computing platforms take off appeared first on EDN .
Nearly 20 Years Later, Physicists Finally Detect a Long-Predicted Effect in Graphene - A nearly 20-year-old scientific prediction has gained experimental support, revealing how graphene’s atomic structure could unlock new possibilities for advanced sensors and electronic devices. A wrinkle in graphene just a few atoms wide can dramatically alter how electricity behaves in the material....
Fix outdated rules on nuclear plant extensions - Fix outdated rules on nuclear plant extensions Korea should speed reactor extension reviews without compromising safety as power demand rises for AI and chip industries. 10/28/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk
SK Hynix says customers want more than twice the HBM it can supply - SK Hynix said customers are seeking more than twice the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) volume it can currently supply, as moves toward shorter memory stacks reflect supply shortages rather than weakening demand.
From Lab to Fab: The Rise of HiPIMS in Semiconductor Manufacturing - High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) produces denser, better-adhering films than conventional sputtering, but scaling it to 200mm-plus substrates and inline production takes more than turning up the power. Authors from VON ARDENNE describe the engineering investment needed to move the technique...
CHPT posts record 3Q26 results as nine-month profit jumps over 90% - Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT), a major semiconductor test interface supplier, posted record revenue and profit in the third quarter of 2026 as consolidated net profit reached NT$551 million (US$16.97 million), up 11.5% quarter on quarter and double the figure from a year earlier. The company has...
Prospector: learning a compact graph traversal policy for scientific reasoning - …build its context, and answers with a chain of evidence that can be checked edge by edge against what its tools retrieved from the graph. On a knowledge graph built from the semiconductor -manufacturing literature, Prospector approaches the strongest off-the-shelf models given the same graph and tools,...
Banks Eye $21 Billion of Bonds for Broadcom Chip-Financing Deal - Banks are planning to sell as much as about $21 billion of high-grade bonds as soon as early next year as part of a $63 billion funding package that Broadcom Inc. has pulled together to help finance chips for AI developer Anthropic PBC.
S2C Targets Faster RISC-V Bring-Up With Prototyping and AI - S2C showcased FPGA prototyping and AI-assisted debugging at the sixth RISC-V Summit China, outlining how developers can validate complex processor designs and begin software development before first silicon. Its demonstrations connected three stages of that effort: running substantial RISC-V systems on...
Solstar demonstrates space-to-space Wi-Fi connectivity for Nasa - Solstar Space, a space-based communications startup, has successfully demonstrated on-orbit Wi-Fi communications. This was during NASA’s R5-S10 CubeSat proximity operations near the Momentus Vigoride-7 spacecraft. The mission collected images and […] The post Solstar demonstrates space-to-space Wi-Fi...
Korea's economy posts surprise 1% growth in Q3 propelled by semiconductor exports - Korea's economy posts surprise 1% growth in Q3 propelled by semiconductor exports The country's economy expanded 1 percent in the third quarter, putting annual growth above the central bank’s forecast despite weak consumer spending. 10/27/2026 - 05:36 AM News Team
No escaping the power of interest rates (KOR) - No escaping the power of interest rates (KOR) The Bank of Korea's caution on fiscal discipline highlights the risks of turning temporary semiconductor-driven revenue into permanent spending. 10/26/2026 - 08:33 PM Opinion Desk
Q3 PCs down 21%, Q4 forecast to be down 27% - Q3 PC shipments fell 21%, says Counterpoint Research, and a further 27% drop is expected in Q4. Q3 shipments fell to 57 million units versus 72.2 million units in Q3 […] The post Q3 PCs down 21%, Q4 forecast to be down 27% appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Micron's Roadmap, Meta's AI Infrastructure, and NVIDIA's Supply Chain Mastery - In this episode of The Circuit, Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg dissect a massive week in semiconductor earnings and infrastructure developments. The conversation opens with Micron's surprisingly transparent technology webinar, where the company outlined its high bandwidth memory (HBM) roadmap, dismissed...
Netflix revenue shrinking but operating margin and subscribers increasing - While subscriber additions have been growing steadily, Netflix’s revenue growth is slowing. In 2026 to-date, revenue was up 13.7% YoY, compared with 15.9% for the full year 2025 […] The post Netflix revenue shrinking but operating margin and subscribers increasing appeared first on Electronics Weekly...
Niche memory price rally lifts Ingenic's third-quarter profit 2,595% - The global memory shortage is no longer lifting only the commodity DRAM giants. Ingenic Semiconductor, a Beijing-based fabless chip designer whose memory chips go mainly into cars, factory equipment, medical devices, and networking gear rather than smartphones and PCs, reported third-quarter net profit...
ChipAgents Expands Full-Stack Agentic AI Across Digital and Analog Chip Design - ChipAgents, the category leader in agentic AI platforms for semiconductor design, announced the expansion of its AI-native engineering platform across digital and analog chip design, bringing more of the semiconductor development flow onto a shared agentic foundation. The post ChipAgents Expands Full-Stack...
The Chip Insider®– SEMICON West wrap - Inside G. Dan Hutcheson’s latest analysis: More than 35,000 attendees examined shared industry challenges from geopolitics, power, and water to workforce, while big questions surfaced around CXMT’s DRAM, Terafab’s EUV access, and the next downturn.
Korea clears Kori-3 and Kori-4 nuclear reactors to restart, boosting AI power supply - Korea clears Kori-3 and Kori-4 nuclear reactors to restart, boosting AI power supply The government approved 10-year operating extensions for Kori-3 and Kori-4 nuclear reactors, adding 1.9 gigawatts of power to support growing AI data centers and semiconductor production. 10/28/2026 - 03:10 AM News Team...
DigiKey adds to its Standard Product range - DigiKey has expanded its DigiKey Standard Product range, which addresses the “everyday needs of engineers, technicians and makers”. Its own-label product line now includes a soldering station, an ESD silicone […] The post DigiKey adds to its Standard Product range appeared first on Electronics Weekly...
Simplifying Industrial Ethernet Industry Response to Growing Complexity - Industrial Ethernet networks are becoming more complex as automation systems demand higher bandwidth, real-time performance and seamless interoperability. Learn how integrated networking approaches can help design engineers simplify development and accelerate deployment.
Ceva’s Next-Generation NeuPro Brings a Unified AI Platform from Sensors to Infrastructure - Ceva is expanding the reach of its neural processing technology with a next-generation NeuPro portfolio designed to serve everything from always-on sensors to AI infrastructure. The announcement introduces four NPU families sharing a common architecture and unified software stack, giving semiconductor...
Intel Wants a Quantum Business, Classiq Could Help Build One - After years of hardware research, Intel plans to acquire a software platform that connects quantum developers with enterprise users. The post Intel Wants a Quantum Business, Classiq Could Help Build One appeared first on EE Times .
Using AI for Analog Design - The growing role of AI in analog and mixed-signal design, where complexity is rising, schedules are tightening, and the cost of mistakes is higher than ever. The post Using AI for Analog Design appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
Top Ten Q2 EV Vendors - Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten EV vendors in Q2: The post Top Ten Q2 EV Vendors appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Semiconductors: Korea's unexpected oil field (KOR) - Semiconductors: Korea's unexpected oil field (KOR) Korea must invest semiconductor-driven tax gains in future technologies rather than let cyclical revenue fuel permanent spending. 10/27/2026 - 09:00 PM Opinion Desk
Analog Superposition Increases Effective PCM Storage Density (IBM Research Europe) - Researchers at IBM Research Europe published “Superposed analog memory for vector storage in neural networks.” Summary: Researchers demonstrated an analog phase-change memory architecture that stores multiple AI vectors in superposition, increasing effective storage density with a tunable accuracy...
Musk Claims $40 Billion Chips Debt Closed, Yet Talks Ongoing - Elon Musk said SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt deal to pay for the chips needed to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions. People familiar with the discussions, though, told Bloomberg News that talks over pricing were still ongoing.
S. Korea Growth Tops Forecast as Chip Boom Masks Weak Demand - South Korea’s economy grew faster than expected in the third quarter as an artificial intelligence-fueled chip boom powered exports and investment, but a contraction in consumption underscored an increasingly uneven expansion that may complicate the trajectory for further interest-rate hikes.
QFX Awarded $9M Contract - QFX, an Oxford University spinout developing hardware infrastrucuture for distributed quantum computing and quantum networking, has been awarded a £6.8 million ($9M) contract by Innovate UK to deliver phase II of its SrROCK development program....
Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 27 - 3D DRAM-on-GPU thermal design; multi-tier CFET self-heating and parasitics; 200G/λ silicon photonics; dry-deposited EUV and e-beam resists; neural-network-based SPICE modeling for 3nm; security-aware 3D CiM mapping; Pt-W absorbers for high-NA EUV masks. The post Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup:...
Government must break megazone deadlock with labor - Government must break megazone deadlock with labor The Lee Jae Myung administration must resolve workweek exemption talks to give semiconductor investors the certainty they need to move forward. 10/27/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk
Power Tips #158: Using a programmable logic device as an LLC controller - Inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) applications that don’t require a closed control loop can benefit from simple and low-cost implementations. The post Power Tips #158: Using a programmable logic device as an LLC controller appeared first on EDN .
The AI boom has been good for the economy, but not for youth job prospects - The AI boom has been good for the economy, but not for youth job prospects The prevalence of AI along with a rigid labor market has pushed more young people into the secondary job market, where they struggle to break out. 10/26/2026 - 07:21 AM News Team
