• Wednesday | 29 July 2026
JFF Receives US Grant to Expand Apprenticeships for AI, Semiconductor and Nuclear Industries

JFF, a national nonprofit that drives transformation in the U.S. education and workforce systems, announced it has been selected as one of five recipients of the U.S. Department of Labour's Pay-for-Performance (PfP) Incentive Payments Program, a $40 million award that will help expand Registered Apprenticeship nationally in high-demand sectors. Through a four-year effort, JFF and its partners will...

14 Jul 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
SK hynix Lists ADRs on Nasdaq to Strengthen Global AI Market Presence

SK hynix Inc. announced that it has listed its American Depositary Receipts[1] (ADRs) on the NASDAQ stock market, entering the heart of the global AI industry and capital markets, and opening a new chapter to elevate its status as a leading global company. To commemorate the listing, SK hynix held an "Opening Bell" ceremony on the morning of July 10 (U.S. Eastern Time) at the Nasdaq MarketSi...

13 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Researchers Develop Solvent-Based Method to Improve Organic Semiconductor Doping

Organic semiconductors are paving the way for a new generation of lightweight, flexible electronics, including bendable displays, printable circuits, wearable sensors, and devices that harvest energy from their surroundings. A key factor behind the performance of these technologies is doping—a process by which molecules are introduced into a semiconductor to control the number of charge carr...

13 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
BTQ and ICTK Complete Design of Quantum-Secure Security Chip for Connected Devices

BTQ Technologies Corp. ("BTQ" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, announced that it has completed the design of its next-generation QCIM + PUF security chip for the quantum era in collaboration with ICTK Co., Ltd. ("ICTK") (KOSDAQ: 456010), a leading Korean secure element chip company...

13 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Ebttikar and MemryX Partner to Accelerate Edge AI Computer Vision Deployments in Saudi Arabia

Ebttikar Technology Company, a Saudi technology solutions provider and systems integrator, and MemryX Inc., a developer of edge AI inference accelerator chips, announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercial deployment of production-ready Computer Vision Edge AI solutions across Saudi Arabia, with potential expansion to qualified opportunities in the broader Middle East where Ebttik...

13 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Appoints Joshua Chien to Board of Directors

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (“AOS” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: AOSL), announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”), upon recommendation by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, appointed Joshua Chien to serve as an independent director of the Board, effective immediately. “We are pleased and excited that Joshua has decided to ...

13 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
Narrow Gate Holding Expands Investments in AI, Semiconductors, Robotics and Energy Infrastructure

Narrow Gate Holding, a U.S.-based global investment firm, announced that it is expanding and deepening its investments across AI, robotics, semiconductors, and energy, the four sectors it identifies as the foundational infrastructure on which frontier technology will be built. The move reflects the firm's view that the decisive competition in AI is shifting away from software and model performanc...

13 Jul 2026 | Monday | NEWS
The Nuclear Company Appoints Marvell Director Brad Buss to Strengthen Board and AI Infrastructure Strategy

The Nuclear Company announced the appointment of Brad Buss to its Board of Directors as an independent director and Chair of the Audit Committee, further strengthening the company's Board with one of the technology industry's most accomplished public company directors and financial leaders. Buss joins The Nuclear Company, bringing nearly three decades of experience helping build, govern, finance,...

10 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Ecolab Completes $4.75 Billion Acquisition of CoolIT Systems to Expand AI Data Centre Cooling Solutions

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ecolab announced the close of its acquisition of CoolIT Systems, a leader in direct liquid cooling for high‑density data centres. The transaction closed earlier than expected, and Ecolab welcomes the world-class CoolIT team to the company. Ecolab acquired CoolIT for approximately $4.75 billion. CoolIT’s year‑to‑date sales have grown more tha...

10 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SEALSQ and GlobalFoundries Partner to Develop Post-Quantum Cryptography and Quantum-Ready Semiconductor Technologies

SEALSQ and GlobalFoundries (GF) have entered into a strategic collaboration to accelerate the development of secure semiconductor technologies designed for the quantum computing era. Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU), the two companies will work together on post-quantum cryptography (PQC), secure semiconductor architectures and quantum computing technologies, addressing ...

10 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Arteris and IC-Link by imec Partner to Accelerate AI and High-Performance Computing Chip Development

Semiconductor system intellectual property (IP) provider Arteris has announced a collaboration with IC-Link by imec to accelerate the development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) chips. The partnership combines Arteris' Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect IP with IC-Link by imec's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) d...

10 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Infineon Opens €5 Billion Smart Power Fab in Dresden, Creating World's Largest Power Semiconductor Manufacturing Site

Infineon Technologies has officially opened its Smart Power Fab in Dresden, Germany, marking a major milestone in Europe's semiconductor manufacturing ambitions. The new facility is described as the world's largest manufacturing site for power semiconductors and analogue/mixed-signal technologies and represents the company's largest single investment to date. Built with an investment of approxima...

10 Jul 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Zuken Joins TSMC's EDA Alliance to Advance Chiplet and Advanced Packaging Design

Japanese electronic design automation (EDA) software company Zuken has joined TSMC's Open Innovation Platform (OIP) EDA Alliance, expanding its collaboration with the world's largest contract chipmaker to support the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. As a member of the alliance, Zuken will enhance its integrated circuit packaging and printed circuit board (PCB)...

10 Jul 2026 | Friday | 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
DeepSeek Develops Custom AI Inference Chip to Reduce Reliance on Nvidia and Strengthen Semiconductor Strategy

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is reportedly developing its own artificial intelligence chip, marking a significant step towards reducing its dependence on external suppliers such as Nvidia and Huawei while strengthening its long-term semiconductor strategy. According to reports citing people familiar with the matter, the company has been working on the project...

9 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Rigaku Opens Semiconductor Metrology Training Centre in Osaka to Strengthen Global Service Network

Rigaku Corporation, a global solution partner in X-ray analytical systems and a group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; “Rigaku”), has opened the Rigaku Solutions Centre Osaka (RSC-Osaka) at its Osaka Plant. The new facility centralises and expands practical training for field service engineers supporting semiconductor metrology s...

9 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Apple Expands Broadcom Partnership with $30 Billion Investment to Manufacture Custom Silicon in the US

Apple® announced a new multiyear commitment with Broadcom to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies for a wide range of Apple products. The new agreement, expected to exceed $30 billion, will lead to the production of more than 15 billion U.S.-made chips and support hundreds of American jobs. Apple has been working with the administrati...

9 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
TetraMem and SK hynix Demonstrate Memristor-Based AI Chip for Energy-Efficient In-Memory Computing

TetraMem Inc., a leader in Analog In-Memory Computing (A-IMC) technology, and SK hynix Inc., a global leader in AI memory and semiconductor technologies, announced the successful completion of a joint technology collaboration, highlighted by the publication of their research paper, “A Memristor-based In-Memory Computing SoC with Efficient Depthwise Convolution,” in Advanced I...

9 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Samsung Begins Mass Production of PCIe 6.0 PM1763 Enterprise SSD for AI Servers and High-Performance Computing

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in advanced memory technology,  announced mass production of PM1763, the company’s PCIe® 6.0-based enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) optimised for next-generation AI and HPC server environments. As the volume of data required for AI training and inference continues to grow rapidly, enterprise SSDs (eSSDs) that deliver data quickly and...

9 Jul 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
POLYN Technology and ALTER TECHNOLOGY France Establish Neuromorphic Chip Validation Lab for AI Semiconductor Development

POLYN Technology, a developer of application-specific neuromorphic analog signal-processing (NASP™) chips, announced a partnership with ALTER TECHNOLOGY France to establish a joint chip-validation lab at ALTER’s Toulouse facilities. The new joint lab will provide POLYN with access to specialised electrical validation capabilities and an internationally renowned test environm...

8 Jul 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS

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