• Wednesday | 29 July 2026
Mitsubishi Electric and Sony Semiconductor Form AI Vision Joint Venture for Smart Manufacturing

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation have signed a definitive agreement to establish a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the automation and digital transformation of manufacturing operations through advanced AI-powered vision technologies. As part of the collaboration, the two companies will create a new joint venture, Advanced Vision Solutions Co...

23 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Intel and Fortinet Partner to Develop Next-Generation Security Processor for Cybersecurity

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), announced a strategic collaboration to develop Fortinet Security Processor 6 (SP6). Expanding a long-standing relationship between the two companies, this collaboration combines Fortinet’s proprietary, purpose-built security processor expertise with Intel’s advanced design, packaging, and manufacturing capabilities to accele...

23 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
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
POLYN Partners with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France to Accelerate Neuromorphic AI Chip Commercialisation

Alexander Simin, COO of POLYN Technology, speaks exclusively with Semicon Leaders Asia about the company's partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France, the commercialisation of its neuromorphic AI technology, and its vision for advancing edge AI, automotive innovation and the future of Physical AI.   Q1. How does this partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France strengthen POLYN’s commercial...

21 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | Interaction
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
Tata Electronics Bets on Mature Semiconductor Nodes to Build India's First Commercial Chip Fab

Tata Electronics is focusing on mature semiconductor process technologies as it prepares to establish India's first commercial wafer fabrication facility, adopting a phased approach aimed at building a sustainable domestic chip manufacturing ecosystem rather than competing immediately in leading-edge production. The company's fabrication plant at Dholera, Gujarat, will initially manufacture chips...

20 Jul 2026 | Monday | 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
LG Chem Enters Semiconductor Stripper Market with Mass Production for Amkor Technology

LG Chem has entered the semiconductor stripper market after commencing mass production and commercial supply of its semiconductor stripping materials to Amkor Technology, marking the company's first customer programme in this segment and expanding its portfolio of semiconductor process materials. The move supports LG Chem's strategy to strengthen its presence in the rapidly growing semiconductor m...

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

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