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  • This is a live panel with industry experts who are on the leading edge of AI in semiconductor manufacturing. This is a must attend event for all levels of semiconductor professionals. I hope to see you there.  The semiconductor industry faces unprecedented challenges as it pushes toward advanced nodes below 3nm, managing exponential… Read More […]
  • How Time-Based Scheduling Reclaims Silicon Wasted by Speculative Execution By: Dr. Thang Tran, Founder and CTO, Simplex Micro I have spent my career designing processor architectures, and I have reached an uncomfortable conclusion: a substantial fraction of the silicon area and power in modern high-performance processors… Read More The post Speculation: Silicon’s Most Expensive Compulsion […]
  • Review the specifications of any state-of-the-art microcontroller and you will discover the high dynamic current the device can consume. Examining the high clock rates and low tolerable voltage drop will lead you to the all-important power delivery network, or PDN. Components here include power planes, layer stack-up, decoupling… Read More The post Exploring the Hidden […]
  • IoT permeates every aspect of our lives, in payment systems, access authorization, vehicles, utilities, factories, hospitals, and in so many other fields. Which makes these systems attractive targets for hacking and social disruption while also challenging to protect given the highly constrained resources that many such… Read More The post Effective Defense Against Hacks at […]
  • In today’s increasingly connected world, there are billions of SoCs, powering everything from automotive ECUs to industrial IoT sensors and processing sensitive data. While software-level security is taken seriously, hardware-level vulnerabilities have often been an afterthought. As hackers are now using more complex… Read More The post Hardening the Silicon: Why Analog Anti-Tamper IP is […]
  • Private rare-earths exploration and process development company US Critical Materials Corp (USCM) of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA and Columbia University have signed a two-year sponsored research agreement seeking to advance scientific pathways that enable the development of future US production of gallium, scandium, titanium and rare-earth elements from red mud, a major byproduct of […]
  • Finland-based laser developer and manufacturer Vexlum (which was spun off from Tampere University of Technology’s Optoelectronics Research Centre in 2017) and precision photonics technology provider Menlo Systems GmbH of Martinsried near Munich, Germany, are collaborating to accelerate the development of ultra-precise optical atomic clock timekeeping by providing an accessible, modular photonics source…
  • Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported preliminary revenue of about €59m in first-quarter 2026, down 48% on €112.5m in Q1/2025, but within the guided range of €65m±€10m…
  • Quinas Technology Ltd of London, UK (which was spun off from Lancaster University in early 2023) has completed a project funded by Innovate UK (which provides funding and support for business innovation as part of UK Research and Innovation) that explored the application of its proprietary ULTRARAM technology to neuromorphic computing…
  • The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) has announced about $5.4m for five projects to help establish a secure, domestic supply chain for gallium (Ga) as a critical material for the defense and semiconductor sectors…
  • Sivers Semiconductors AB of Kista, Sweden (which supplies RF beam-former ICs and lasers for AI data-center, SATCOM, defense and telecom applications) says that its high-performance distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are to be used by global engineering, supply chain and manufacturing solutions provider Jabil Inc to develop a 1.6T linear receive optical (LRO) transceiver module. The […]
  • In first-quarter 2026, Sweden-based semiconductor equipment maker AlixLabs AB (which was spun off from Lund University in 2019, specializing in atomic layer epitaxy) closed its Series A funding round following a strategic investment from Stephen Industries, a Finnish investment company with a track record in scaling advanced technology ventures…
  • To advance the production of its APS (Atomic Pitch Splitting) equipment, Sweden-based semiconductor equipment maker AlixLabs AB (which was spun off from Lund University in 2019, specializing in atomic layer epitaxy) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with VDL ETG Projects (part of VDL Groep of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)…
  • Silanna UV of Brisbane, Australia – which provides far-UVC light sources for water quality sensors, gas sensors, disinfection, and HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography) applications – has released an additional package type: a TO-39 flat-window package for its high-performance SF1 series (Far-UVC 235nm) and SN3 series (Deep-UVC 255nm) LEDs. This latest development expands the firm’s comprehensive […]
  • The UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC) has launched a new HQ at the Institute of Physics (IOP) in King’s Cross, London, marking a significant step in its mission to ensure that the UK capitalizes on rapid expansion in the global semiconductor industry…