• Wednesday | 29 July 2026
Synopsys and NVIDIA Advance Agentic AI for Semiconductor Design with Autonomous Chip Verification and Engineering Workflows

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced advancements to agentic AI for engineering in collaboration with NVIDIA. Synopsys has developed fully autonomous, long-running agentic capabilities for chip design and electronics system design enabled with NVIDIA Nemotron on NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform and secured by the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime. Demonstrated at DAC for the first ...

28 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
ChipNexus Launches NEX Agentic AI Platform for Semiconductor Design, Raises Seed Funding

Primis AI announced that it has become ChipNexus and launched NEX, an agentic AI platform for semiconductor and hardware design. The new identity reflects the company’s evolution in response to a changing market: hardware teams increasingly need AI systems that can work across complex engineering workflows, not simply generate code or answer questions. ChipNexus developed NEX to address that...

27 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB and Advanced Packaging Design, Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell

Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) introduced the AuraStack™ AI Super Agent on Cadence® Allegro® AI Studio, the world’s first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging design, taking designers from system planning to final product in a single AI-native environment. The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA CUDA-X, coor...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Whalechip Deploys ChipAgents AI Platform to Accelerate Semiconductor Chip Debugging

ChipAgents, the category leader for Agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, announced that Whalechip has successfully deployed ChipAgents' AI-powered platform, which immediately paid dividends during a recent critical chip debugging effort. Using ChipAgents, the Whalechip engineering team was able to rapidly identify critical design issues in a new chip and significantly reduce ...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Direxion Launches 2X Leveraged ETF Tracking SK hynix to Expand AI Semiconductor Investment Portfolio

Direxion, a provider of exchange-traded funds designed for active and tactical investors, has expanded its semiconductor investment portfolio with the launch of the Direxion Daily SK Hynix Bull 2X ETF (SKHL). The new fund is designed to provide investors with leveraged exposure to one of the world's leading memory chip manufacturers, enabling traders to capitalise on daily price ...

16 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Tomocube Launches Desktop 3D Metrology System for Glass Substrate Inspection

Tomocube, a 3D non-destructive inspection and metrology company, announced the launch of HT-T1 Desktop (HT-T1D), a desktop holotomography system for high-resolution 3D defect analysis of glass substrates used in next-generation semiconductor packaging. HT-T1D is optimised for glass-substrate inspection and metrology workflows. When conventional in-line panel inspection tools, such as automated op...

14 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Synopsys Shifts Focus to AI Chip Design as It Phases Out Selected Semiconductor Manufacturing Software

Electronic design automation (EDA) company Synopsys is reportedly planning to discontinue parts of its semiconductor manufacturing process control software portfolio as it shifts engineering resources towards higher-growth artificial intelligence (AI) design solutions. According to sources familiar with the matter, the company has informed several leading semiconductor manufacture...

9 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
AOS Launches 80V Half-Bridge MOSFET with AmpStack™ Packaging for AI Data Centres and High-Power Applications

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of discrete power devices, wide-bandgap power devices, power management ICs, and modules, introduced its AOPL66801 80V MOSFET in a half-bridge configuration available in a state-of-the-art DFN6x5 AmpStack™ MOSFET package. This breakthrough packaging technolog...

8 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
How AI-Powered EDA, 2nm Design, and Samsung Foundry Collaboration Are Accelerating Next-Generation AI Chip Development

In this exclusive interview with Semicon Leaders Asia, Shekhar Kapoor, Executive Director of Product Line Management, Synopsys, shares how AI-driven design automation, advanced-node collaboration, and system-level optimisation are shaping the future of semiconductor innovation.   Q. As AI, multi-die architectures, and advanced process nodes increase desig...

3 Jul 2026 | Friday | Interaction
Sirin Software Joins Alif Semiconductor Ecosystem as Authorized Design House

Sirin Software, a leading provider of embedded software and IoT engineering services, has officially joined the Alif Semiconductor partner ecosystem as an authorised Design House. The collaboration brings together Alif Semiconductor's high-performance processor architectures and Sirin Software's expertise in embedded software engineering to help customers accelerate the development of next-generat...

2 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
OXMIQ Raises $35 Million Series A to Scale Licensable GPU Architecture for Custom AI Silicon

OXMIQ Labs Inc., a unified GPU and AI architecture company founded by Raja Koduri, closed its $35 million Series A financing, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $60 million. The funding will scale OxCore™, OXMIQ’s licensable GPU architecture that allows semiconductor companies and AI system builders to build custom AI silicon without a full chip program. The round was...

2 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
StratEdge Introduces Gold-Plated Tabs for High-Power GaN Semiconductor Packaging

StratEdge Corporation, a leader in the design and production of high-frequency, high-power, and high-reliability packages, offers gold-plated tabs for advanced semiconductors that require superior thermal and electrical performance. StratEdge’s gold-plated tabs are designed to support eutectic die attach for gallium nitride (GaN) and other high-power devices using gold-tin (AuSn) and gold-s...

2 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
ChipAgents Joins AWS Partner Network to Expand AI-Driven Semiconductor Engineering Capabilities

ChipAgents, a leading provider of Agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise and resources to build, market and sell customer offerings. “AI has enormous potential in semiconductor engineering, but the industry’s biggest...

26 Jun 2026 | Friday | NEWS
GigaDevice and Qt Group Partner to Accelerate Embedded HMI Development on GD32H7 MCU Platform

GigaDevice, a leading semiconductor company specialising in Flash memory, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and analog products, has officially entered a strategic partnership with Qt Group, a global leader in software design, development, and quality assurance solutions. Leveraging the GD32H7 high-performance MCU series, the two companies will collaborate...

25 Jun 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Dell and NVIDIA Expand AI Factory Collaboration with PowerEdge XE8812 for Next-Generation HPC and AI Workloads

ISC--Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduces the Dell PowerEdge XE8812 server, a new addition to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, purpose-built for the world's most demanding HPC and AI workloads, featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture and delivering up to 144 GPUs per rack. The announcement comes as Dell AI Factory deployments accelerate worldwide, advancing sovereign AI initiatives...

24 Jun 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Rapidus and Fondazione Chips-IT Forge Partnership to Strengthen Japan-Italy Semiconductor Collaboration

Rapidus Corporation announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Fondazione Chips-IT, an Italian private-law foundation dedicated to semiconductor circuit design. The Fondazione Chips-IT plays a central role in Italy's semiconductor ecosystem and collaborates with world-leading international research institutions and industry. In January of this year, the prime ...

17 Jun 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
QBit Expands ASIC Business with Majority Acquisition of Singapore’s SinChip

QBit Semiconductor (TWSE: 7913; hereinafter referred to as QBit), a leader long dedicated to intelligent image processing, precision motion control, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) security architectures, and high-precision SoC integration, announced a major step in expanding its global business capabilities. QBit's products are widely deployed in high-end multifunction printers (MFPs), commercial...

12 Jun 2026 | Friday | NEWS
BlueRock Enhances NOVA Microhypervisor with Advanced AMD AI Infrastructure Security

BlueRock announced the latest open-source release of its NOVA Microhypervisor, which introduces advanced DMA remapping support for AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) platforms with IOMMU hardware virtualisation capabilities. As AI infrastructure faces sustained concurrency, growing execution complexity, and increasing economic pressure, NOVA strengthens hardware-level isolation across workloads, de...

11 Jun 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Arasan Launches Industry’s First 16-Bit xSPI and PSRAM IP Solution for Next-Generation SoCs

Arasan Chip Systems, a leading provider of IP for mobile and automobile SoC's, is proud to announce the launch of the industry's first Sureboot™ Total 16-bit xSPI + PSRAM IP. The Sureboot™ Total xSPI + PSRAM 16-bit IP includes the controller IP, seamlessly integrated PHY IP and software stack. This IP is specifically engineered to support AP Memory's Xccela™ P...

4 Jun 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Nordic Semiconductor Expands AI Across the Entire IoT Development Lifecycle

Nordic Semiconductor (OSE: NOD), a global leader in low-power wireless connectivity solutions, brings AI-assisted development to all parts of the IoT device lifecycle. Nordic's complete chip-to-cloud solution is the first in wireless IoT to enable AI-assisted workflows across every stage - from the prototype to the deployed fleet. For developers, Nordic's AI capabilities deliver three concrete be...

3 Jun 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS

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