• Thursday | 30 July 2026
Gradiant Completes Water Infrastructure for €5 Billion Semiconductor Fab in Germany

Gradiant, a global leader in advanced water and wastewater solutions, announced the successful completion of its work for a major new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Dresden, strengthening Europe’s capacity to produce the technologies powering an increasingly digital and electrified world. Representing an investment of approximately €5 billion, the new facility is one of German...

23 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Quest Global Named Leader in ISG Provider Lens 2026 for Semiconductor Engineering Services

Quest Global, the largest private independent pure-play engineering services company, has been recognised as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens® Semiconductor Industry Services and Solutions 2026 Study for the U.S. market. The company secured Leader positions in Design, Test and Verification Services and Manufacturing and Engineering Services, r...

23 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Photon Queue Raises $4 Million Seed Funding to Scale Quantum Memory Technology for Quantum Computing

Photon Queue, a quantum technology company building high-efficiency quantum memories for next-generation quantum computing systems, announced the close of its oversubscribed seed funding round of $4 million, led by Playground Global. The seed round builds on Photon Queue’s early customer traction, including contracts with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Maryland that valid...

22 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Accelsius Two-Phase Liquid Cooling Boosts NVIDIA AI Data Center Efficiency with Warm-Water Cooling

Accelsius, the leader in two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for AI and high-performance computing, announced results from independent third-party benchmark testing demonstrating that two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling better supports NVIDIA’s goal of enabling global free cooling with warm facility-water temperatures. The results show that single-phase performance at 45&...

22 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Aeonsemi Launches World's First 10Gbps Ethernet-over-Coax IC for AI and Fiber Network Expansion

Aeonsemi, a leader in mixed-signal and DSP connectivity ICs, announced LumaReach™, the industry’s first commercially available 10 Gbps Ethernet-over-coax network controller IC. Developed as a new fibre-extension technology, LumaReach™ delivers fibre-class latency and bandwidth over existing RG6 and RG59 coaxial cabling already installed in approximately 150 million homes acr...

22 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Redwire Opens New Microgravity Research Facility to Advance Semiconductor and Space Manufacturing

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, has opened its new 30,000-square-foot state-of-the-art, vertically integrated research and microgravity payload development facility in Georgetown, Indiana. The facility will serve as a global hub supporting accelerated demand as the company continues to expand its leadership in space-enabled research, deve...

22 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Mach42 Raises £7 Million to Accelerate AI-Powered Analog Chip Design and Semiconductor Simulation

Mach42, an AI-driven company developing technology to accelerate analog circuit simulation for semiconductor design, has closed a £7m pre-series A funding round. The round was led by IP Group plc, the most active UK-based early-stage science and technology investor, alongside existing investors BGF and Foresight Group. The funding will enable Mach42 to scale its engineering and business dev...

22 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Air Products Wins Long-Term Taiwan Semiconductor Gas Supply Contract for New AI Chip Fabs

Air Products (NYSE: APD), a world-leading industrial gases company, announced Air Products San Fu has been awarded a long-term agreement to support a semiconductor manufacturer's expansion in Taiwan. The project will supply multiple new semiconductor fabs and back-end packaging facilities, supporting growing demand driven by artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Air Product...

22 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Infinity AI Raises US$15 Million to Accelerate AI Inference Software for Next-Generation Semiconductor Chips

Infinity.inc (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an early-stage AI infrastructure research company building the software layer that makes any AI chip inference-ready, announced it has raised $15 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. The round included significant participation from Touring Capital, along with Principal VC, executives at major chip...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
WiMi Unveils QRAM-Based Quantum CNN to Accelerate AI Image Classification

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, announced the release of its latest independently developed achievement—a quantum convolutional neural network for efficient image classification based on quantum random access memory (QRAM). This technology is oriented toward typical image classific...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Tower Semiconductor to Invest US$3 Billion in Japan to Expand Silicon Photonics and AI Chip Manufacturing

Tower Semiconductor will invest approximately US$3 billion to significantly expand its manufacturing footprint in Japan, backed by around US$1 billion in financial support from the Japanese government, as the speciality foundry seeks to capitalise on surging demand for semiconductors powering artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and advanced communications. The Israeli chipmaker sa...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Micro-Transfer Printing Advances Silicon Photonics Integration for Next-Generation AI Infrastructure

Silicon photonics has emerged as a promising technology for addressing bandwidth and latency bottlenecks of conventional electrical interconnects and therefore are being explored for future artificial intelligence infrastructure. However, heterogenous integration of multiple material systems remains a challenge. Now, researchers show how micro-transfer printing can enable highly versatile heteroge...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
CuspAI Launches AI Materials Foundry with NVIDIA and Meta to Accelerate Semiconductor Materials Discovery

CuspAI announced the launch of the AI Materials Foundry, bringing together a global network of data, labs, compute and scientific expertise for the design of new materials, orchestrated by a single agentic platform. Over 45 organisations join as founding members, including NVIDIA, which will provide the compute infrastructure, and Meta’s Fundamental AI Research Team, who develop the Univers...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Mitsubishi Electric, Rohm and Toshiba Target September Deal to Merge Power Semiconductor Businesses

Mitsubishi Electric is aiming to reach an agreement by September to combine its power semiconductor business with those of Rohm and Toshiba, as the three Japanese companies seek to strengthen their competitiveness in the rapidly expanding global market for power chips. The proposed integration would bring together three of Japan's leading power semiconductor manufacturers, creating one of the wor...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Penguin Solutions Closes US$750 Million Convertible Notes Offering to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Growth

Penguin Solutions, Inc., the AI Factory Platform Company (“Penguin,” “we” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PENG), announced that it has closed its previously announced private offering of $750.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2031 (the “Notes”) to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers as ...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Power Integrations Grants Equity Awards to New Employees Under 2025 Inducement Plan

Power Integrations has announced the grant of equity awards to five newly hired employees as part of its strategy to attract and retain talent, reinforcing its commitment to building a strong workforce to support the company's long-term growth. The company granted a total of 12,017 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and 1,213 Performance Stock Units (PSUs), at target, to employees who joined the busin...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
QumulusAI Becomes NVIDIA Cloud Partner to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Deployment

QumulusAI (Nasdaq: QMLS), a neocloud infrastructure provider purpose-built for the AI computing era, announced it has been approved as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) within the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN), reinforcing its ability to bring high-performance compute online quickly to meet growing customer demand. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, QumulusAI can work with AI-native companies, enterprises, a...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Viettel to Invest US$1.3 Billion in Hanoi Semiconductor Fab as Vietnam Attracts US$588 Million in High-Tech Investment

Vietnam's capital is strengthening its position as a regional technology hub after Viettel committed US$1.3 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility, a move that has helped Hanoi attract US$588 million in high-tech investment during the first half of the year. The planned chip manufacturing complex forms part of Vietnam's broader strategy to develop a domestic semiconductor industr...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Harel Increases Stake in Camtek as AI Chip Manufacturing Drives Demand for Semiconductor Inspection Equipment

Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services has expanded its holding in semiconductor inspection equipment supplier Camtek, reinforcing institutional confidence in the company's long-term growth prospects amid rising demand for advanced chip manufacturing technologies. According to a recent regulatory filing, Harel increased its stake by 38.2% during the first quarter, acquiring an addit...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
UMC Begins Mass Production of Silicon Photonics Wafers in Singapore for AI Data Centres and Optical Networking

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has started commercial production of silicon photonics wafers at its 300 mm manufacturing facility in Singapore, strengthening its capabilities in optical semiconductor technologies as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and high-speed data communications continues to rise. The milestone follows a joint development programme with Singap...

17 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS

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