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Friday 18 September 2026
GlobalFoundries, Marvell expand SiGe capacity deal for AI optical connectivity

GlobalFoundries (GF) and Marvell Technology have expanded a multi-year agreement to increase production capacity for silicon germanium...

Friday 18 September 2026
Resonac grows 300mm SiC crystal, marking a substrate milestone
Resonac has grown and processed a 300mm silicon carbide (SiC) single crystal. This development could shape the future of power electronics used worldwide in electric vehicles, renewable...
Friday 18 September 2026
GaN is winning the AI power argument, not yet the cost battle

Gallium nitride (GaN) is emerging as a key power semiconductor for AI data centers, where rising rack power and the shift toward higher-voltage...

Friday 18 September 2026
Apple and MediaTek's latest SoCs address overkill performance by reserving space for agentic AI
Apple unveiled its iPhone 18 Pro series featuring its inaugural 2nm smartphone silicon, the A20 Pro, which was followed by MediaTek's announcement of its own 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Ardentec, Sigurd race into silicon photonics TIA testing as US client books capacity
The global optical communications module market continues to grow, and Taiwan's test and packaging companies are moving to capture demand in silicon photonics (SiPh) transimpedance...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Google reportedly weighs CoWoS backup for 2027 TPU as EMIB-T substrate yields lag
Google's Humufish TPU project, scheduled to enter mass production by the end of 2027, is set to adopt Intel's EMIB-T advanced packaging technology with support from ASIC partner MediaTek...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Lam Research plans US$1 billion India manufacturing expansion
Lam Research plans to invest INR100 billion (approx. US$1.04 billion) in India over the next several years, adding its first silicon component manufacturing facility in the country...
Thursday 17 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: SiC substrate capacity expansion continued; 6-inch substrate prices expected to rebound in 2027
DIGITIMES has observed that demand for silicon carbide (SiC) power devices has climbed rapidly in recent years as the EV market expands, triggering a massive wave of capacity expansion...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
India's Eastern state clears SiCSem's SiC unit in SEZ
The Falta Special Economic Zone unit approval committee has cleared a proposal from SiCSem Private Limited to build an integrated silicon carbide (SiC) device plant near Bhubaneswar,...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Samsung and Qualcomm jointly developing organic bridges for 2.1D packaging
Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Qualcomm are working together to develop an organic bridge for 2.1D packaging architectures. The partnership takes place as AI chips grow larger, denser,...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
CPO ramp pushes silicon photonics testing upstream to catch defects early

As AI servers drive demand for higher-speed optical interconnects and co-packaged optics (CPO) moves toward volume production, silicon...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
As AI data centers hit a transmission wall, GlobalFoundries pushes into silicon photonics
At the China International Optoelectronics Expo (CIOE), a palm-sized metal transceiver represents the shift from copper to light in data center infrastructure, one of the biggest transformations...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Chip revenue heads to US$2.4 trillion on price, not volume, Yole says
The semiconductor industry is on track to nearly quadruple in revenue by 2031 while shipping barely more silicon than it does today, a divergence that makes pricing power, not capacity,...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
MediaTek unveils first 2nm chip to run 30 billion AI models on phones arriving this quarter

MediaTek has become the first merchant silicon vendor to announce a 2-nanometer smartphone processor, unveiling the Dimensity 9600 Pro...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
China optical transceivers avoid US FCC curbs as NPO, CPO battle for high-speed interconnect supremacy

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently updated its equipment authorization rules, prohibiting authorization of devices...