Category: News
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Soctera has raised $4m to develop thermally optimised mmWave amplifiers. The Cornell spin-out is moving a III-nitride semiconductor architecture towards qualified products for radar, electronic warfare, satellite, and telecommunications systems.
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Samsung is reportedly targeting High-NA EUV adoption from 1nm production. The roadmap would delay production insertion while the foundry evaluates the economics and process maturity of ASML’s 0.55-NA lithography platform.
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NXP has broken ground on its expanded Malaysian test facility. The Petaling Jaya project adds around 500,000 square feet of production space and is intended to more than double site output at full capacity.
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GlobalLogic opens its first Physical AI demonstration zone in Kraków. The engineering-centre deployment combines robotics, digital twins, autonomous operations, AI vision, and infrastructure monitoring for industrial and critical-system use cases.
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Jenoptik semiconductor equipment orders accelerated sharply during 2026’s first half. Lithography and inspection demand lifted the unit’s order intake by 85.3%, while revenue rose 10.2% and further optics capacity is planned in Jena.
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South Korea plans a five-trillion-won fund for semiconductor supply chains. The programme will target materials, components, equipment, and fabless companies alongside another five trillion won in trade finance.
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Saelig has added RadGreen continuous RF monitors for industrial environments. Connected and standalone configurations provide persistent threshold monitoring, alerts, logging, and fault detection for laboratories and production areas.
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MaxLinear has introduced two intelligent eFuses for rack-scale AI power. The 50A and 60A devices combine hot-swap protection, low-resistance MOSFET paths, fault handling, and optional PMBus telemetry.
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Vishay has launched surface-mount Y1 safety capacitors for industrial filtering. The SMDY1…S series combines 300VAC and 1,500VDC ratings with capacitances to 1,500pF and up to 40% lower board-space requirements.
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Ouster will expand BlueCity lidar across 160 Utah intersections statewide. The deployment adds REV8 sensors with 500-foot detection, optional colour capture, edge privacy processing, and integration into existing traffic-control infrastructure.