Mitsui Chemicals to Take Over Chip Linchpin JSR for $12 Billion - Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals Inc. is buying JSR Corp. for ¥1.84 trillion ($12 billion) with support from state-backed Development Bank of Japan to strengthen its hold over a key chip materials linchpin.
Still Looking for Diamonds - Silicon carbide demand surges, but Europe risks hollow sovereignty as investment flows abroad; see why Bulgaria’s fab needs customers first. The post Still Looking for Diamonds appeared first on EE Times .
CesiumAstro satellite antenna specialist raises $730m - CesiumAstro, the satellite antenna specialist, has closed $730 million in Series D financing. Its payloads – the company highlights – combine active phased array antennas, RF front ends, analogue and […] The post CesiumAstro satellite antenna specialist raises $730m appeared first on Electronics...
Samsung cash pile tops 200 trillion won as chip boom fuels record spending - Samsung cash pile tops 200 trillion won as chip boom fuels record spending The semiconductor surge gives Samsung more room for shareholder returns, AI-driven investment and expanded chip production. 11/8/2026 - 12:15 AM News Team
Samsung Names 10 Outstanding Researchers in Future Technology Program - Samsung has presented its first awards to researchers who delivered outstanding results under its Future Technology Fostering Program, which has supported scientific research for 14 years.Samsung said on Nov. 5 that it held the 2026 Samsung Future Technology Fostering Program Annual Forum at the Wes
Quantum Discovery Reveals Why More Powerful Lasers Can Actually Slow Atoms Down - Researchers have uncovered an unexpected way to control the movement of atomic layers in quantum materials. Scientists have discovered that two carefully timed laser pulses can move atomic layers in a quantum material more effectively than a single, more powerful pulse. Published in Nature Physics, the...
CEO Interview with Pratap Ranade of Arena Physica - Pratap Ranade is CEO and Co-Founder of Arena Physica. Pratap first trained as a physicist at Stanford and Columbia before joining McKinsey as an Associate Partner advising tech and semiconductor companies. He then founded Kimono Labs, backed by Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and Y-Combinator, which was acquired...
Jensen Huang is in the DC Doghouse. And How. - [Opinion] The US intelligence and policy community seem fed up with Trump’s softened approach to China, and Jensen is seen as a major cheerleader for…
Noak, imec Spinoff, Raises $5.5M to Industrialize Photovoltaic Technology - Noak, a spin-off of imec and Hasselt University, has raised €5 million ($5.5M) to advance the industrialization of perovskite-silicon tandem photovoltaic (PV) technology. The funding will support further development at the EnergyVille research institute in Genk, Belgium, as well as preparations for...
The History of GlobalFoundries: From AMD to a Global Semiconductor Foundry - The history of GlobalFoundries is a story about one of the semiconductor industry’s most important transformations: the separation of chip design from semiconductor manufacturing. Established in 2009 following the separation of AMD’s manufacturing operations, GlobalFoundries entered the market with...
A Smart Alarm Clock That Doesn’t Sell Your Soul - Devices from the likes of Google and Amazon can be used as high-tech alarm clocks that can show the weather and family photos in addition to telling you what time …read more
Memory In Physical AI - LPDDR6 becomes an essential ingredient as intelligence moves into autonomous and mobile edge systems. The post Memory In Physical AI appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
The Midterms Hit AI: Data Center Pushback, a Market Whipsaw, and Earnings That Tell a Different Story - A midterm election that put data centers on the ballot, followed by one of the sharpest two-day market swings in recent memory, changed the AI conversation this week, even as earnings from AMD, Arm, Lattice, and Coherent pointed to demand that hasn't slowed. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack what...
When the economic illusion fades - When the economic illusion fades Fuel price controls and a semiconductor-led export boom may be hiding weakening household finances and deeper structural vulnerabilities. 11/8/2026 - 10:01 AM Opinion Desk
When the economic illusion fades (KOR) - When the economic illusion fades (KOR) Fuel price controls and a semiconductor-led export boom may be hiding weakening household finances and deeper structural vulnerabilities. 11/8/2026 - 07:27 PM Opinion Desk
CEO Interview with Tallat M. Shafaat of Vectara - Tallat M. Shafaat is CEO and co-founder of Vectara, an enterprise AI company that helps organizations build AI applications capable of retrieving information and generating reliable, grounded responses. Prior to founding Vectara, he worked at Google, contributing to its Search and Ads infrastructure,...
輝達要求台積電進軍先進記憶體市場？傳組建 3D DRAM 產線解 AI 缺貨荒 - 隨著 AI 晶片需求持續增加，記憶體已成為影響高效能運算設備供應的重要環節，迫使輝達（NVIDIA）、蘋果開始尋求其它記憶體供應來源，並要求 台積電 跨足先進記憶體製造，規劃建置新一代 3D DRAM 產線，以解全球 AI 記憶體缺貨荒。...
Fable: The Home For Geniuses - The “Pope of Physics” as his colleagues called him because of his infallibility in solving physics problems, was increasingly concerned by anti-Semitic laws passed by his country’s fascist government because […] The post Fable: The Home For Geniuses appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Semiconductor Earnings Sugar Rush Likely to Fade, Says JPMorgan’s Peters - Grace Peters, global investment strategy co-head at JPMorgan Private Bank, calls semiconductor stocks “the epicenter of this drawdown,” but says that earnings assumptions show markets are “reasonably valued.” She says the firm doesn’t have a reason to step back from investing in equities as...
Chang Wah Technology holds high utilization, boosts China investment - Chang Wah Technology reported October consolidated revenue of NT$1.715 billion (US$52.2 million), up 0.09% month-over-month and 50.83% year-over-year, as demand remained strong despite a weeklong holiday in China and some customers pulling shipments forward into September. Revenue for the first 10 months...
AI 吸走七成 DRAM，記憶體荒恐延續到 2030 代，GPU 價格難回落 - AI 資料中心需求持續升溫，正把全球記憶體供應推向更緊繃的局面，也讓消費級 GPU 與其他電腦零組件價格一路攀升。根據多份產業報告與市場追蹤，這波由 AI 帶動的缺貨潮不僅沒有降溫，反而可能一路延續到 2027 之後，甚至拖到...
The secret signals of keyless fobs - Here’s how your fob speaks to your car and the clever security engineering that keeps thieves from listening in. The post The secret signals of keyless fobs appeared first on EDN .
Machines that think: trust and provenance - This is the twelfth part in a series on how AI is crossing out of software and into the physical world. This time, Jan Bosch looks at what it takes to establish that something is real when anything can be synthesized.
Ed Takes Advantage From Project Fear - The government is terrified that the behaviour of the revolting frogs will cross the channel and infect our own people who, enraged by the same problems of rising living costs […] The post Ed Takes Advantage From Project Fear appeared first on Electronics Weekly .
Team unlocks large-scale Fourier transforms for analog in-memory computing - Fourier transforms are mathematical calculations that can be used to identify the frequencies that make up a signal and shed light on their individual contributions. These transforms have been used, for example, to unveil ...
CEO Interview with Mark Rushworth of Finchetto - Mark Rushworth is CEO of the all-optical network switch company, Finchetto, a photonics startup developing fully optical network switching technology for AI and hyperscale data centers. He specializes in integrated photonics and optical networking, with a focus on reducing the power consumption and latency...
Scientists Finally Crack a 1,600-Year-Old Roman Glass Mystery - More than 1,600 years after the Romans created the famous Lycurgus Cup, a University of Sheffield technician has found a way to reliably reproduce its extraordinary color-changing glass. A glass cup made more than 1,600 years ago has puzzled historians and glassmakers for centuries. When light reflects...
Korean investors flee to U.S. chips, with one ETF dominating purchases - Korean investors flee to U.S. chips, with one ETF dominating purchases Retail investors bought $2.2 billion in U.S. stocks in five days, with more than 70 percent flowing into a triple-leveraged semiconductor ETF as Seoul’s market sell-off continues. 11/7/2026 - 01:44 AM News Team
