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Friday 13 November 2026
AMD and PsiQuantum expand partnership on quantum computing infrastructure
PsiQuantum and AMD are expanding their partnership to develop infrastructure for utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers and hybrid systems combining quantum, high-performance,...
Friday 13 November 2026
Europe's AI ambitions hinge on power semiconductors, and on fending off Chinese rivals
AI has propelled the global semiconductor market to record highs, but growth remains concentrated in memory, advanced logic and advanced packaging, areas in which Europe has limited...
Friday 13 November 2026
Analysis: Beyond silicon, North East England's semiconductor revival confronts an old industrial dilemma
In a business incubator at County Durham's NETPark, the future of Britain's semiconductor industry was being discussed by people whose technologies rarely feature in global chipmaking...
Thursday 12 November 2026
Exclusive: A world where everything has a chip—Pragmatic reimagines the boundaries of everyday intelligence
A semiconductor chip no thicker than a fraction of a human hair might seem insignificant beside the powerful silicon processors driving the world's AI revolution. Yet at Pragmatic...
Thursday 12 November 2026
Wolfspeed returns to GaN as CEO touts vertical integration
US silicon carbide (SiC) giant Wolfspeed will re-enter the gallium nitride (GaN) market through a vertically integrated model and expand into the GaN-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) power device...
Thursday 12 November 2026
AP Memory sees IPD silicon capacitor orders booked through 2H27, pursues dual-track strategy with UMC
AP Memory Technology reported record-breaking third-quarter 2026 revenue and net profit, driven by surging demand for its integrated passive device (IPD) silicon capacitors under the...
Thursday 12 November 2026
Taiwan mobilizes academic R&D to address post-Moore semiconductor equipment gaps
Taiwan is stepping up efforts to develop next-generation semiconductor research equipment, as conventional commercial tools increasingly fall short of emerging R&D requirements...
Wednesday 11 November 2026
Diamond Foundry says it has grown a 200mm single-crystal diamond
Diamond Foundry has produced what it calls the first-ever single-crystal diamond measuring 200mm in diameter, according to a company blog post published on November 5, 2026. The post...
Wednesday 11 November 2026
Samsung reportedly buys four silicon photonics patents from Rockley
Samsung Electronics acquired four US silicon photonics patents from UK-based Rockley Photonics in September 2026, South Korea's Shinailbo reported on November 11, citing US...
Wednesday 11 November 2026
Nvidia's OOI architecture paves way for optical interconnects in GPUs
DIGITIMES observed that Nvidia is advancing an optics-on-interposer (OOI) architecture that moves the optical engine from an organic substrate to a silicon interposer to increase interconnect...
Wednesday 11 November 2026
Infineon says it processed functional power devices on 300mm SiC wafers
Infineon Technologies AG said on November 9, 2026, that it has processed 300mm silicon carbide (SiC) wafers into functional power devices at its fab in Villach, Austria, which it described...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Intel looks beyond 18A and 14A to reshape computing
Intel has fallen noticeably behind rivals including Nvidia and AMD in the generative AI boom. Rather than concentrating all its resources on catching current market leaders, the company...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Google expands eighth-generation TPU portfolio to target secure, high-context agentic AI
Google has expanded its eighth-generation TPU portfolio with the announcement of two specialized AI systems—the TPU 8tx for hardware-encrypted confidential compute and the TPU...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Intel targets silicon photonics, in-memory computing beyond GPUs
As the global semiconductor industry continues to focus on Nvidia, Intel is looking beyond GPUs to determine where next-generation computing architectures will go. In an interview...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Infineon bets on 800V DC for megawatt AI racks
Rising power demand at AI data centers is driving demand for power semiconductors used in server power supplies, grid equipment, and chip-level power delivery. Infineon Technologies...