Category: News
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Quantinuum has secured $100 million for quantum manufacturing research programmes. GlobalFoundries will fabricate next-generation ion traps and electronics using 300mm wafer technology while Monarch Quantum develops scalable laser and optical hardware for trapped-ion systems.
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SolarEdge and Infineon are developing semiconductor protection for 800VDC distribution. Their solid-state circuit-breaker architecture uses silicon carbide JFET technology to target microsecond fault isolation between high-voltage conversion equipment and increasingly power-dense AI compute racks.
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Analog Devices will acquire Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion cash. The transaction adds low-power AI microcontrollers and fusion processors to ADI’s sensing, signal-processing, power, connectivity, and embedded-system portfolio.
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Elmos secures 130nm wafer capacity from SK keyfoundry through 2037. The agreement extends an 18-year foundry relationship and supports a new automotive platform beginning with the E550.01 four-channel eFuse controller and a planned compact eFlash memory cell.
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Xanadu and ASML will refine lithography for photonic quantum hardware. The collaboration will examine line-edge roughness, patterning control, and optical loss as Xanadu works towards repeatable fabrication for fault-tolerant, error-corrected quantum systems.
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Samsung and Mistral will deploy on-premises AI across semiconductor operations. The partnership targets defect analysis, equipment optimisation, development cycles, manufacturing precision, and yield stability while keeping sensitive process data within Samsung infrastructure.
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IonQ has moved Superion 256 towards semiconductor-based quantum manufacturing scale. Integrated 256-qubit QPUs are fabricated, with first ions trapped in prototypes.
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Qualcomm and Amazon are collaborating on custom AI silicon platforms. The programme also covers optical connectivity extending to 1.6T.
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TDK has doubled 100V soft-termination MLCC capacitance in 3225 packages. The 10µF X7R devices target 48V rails across high-density equipment.
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AKM sensors now support Microchip’s machine-learning arc-fault reference design platform. The 100ns sensors feed local inference running on a dsPIC33A controller.