Gresham has secured new RF orders supporting established US programmes. The $5.4 million bookings cover radar, electronic warfare, communications, and other mission-critical defence systems.
Photronics reported stronger semiconductor demand as delayed designs resumed production. High-end IC masks reached a record 44% of IC revenue while US and Korean capacity investments continued.
IBM is designing a processor supporting native Arm and Z. The 2 nm chip contains 11 cores above 5.7 GHz while executing both instruction architectures within each core.
Achronix has released JESD204C IP for high-bandwidth Speedster7t FPGA systems. The core supports 32 Gbps lanes, deterministic latency, and aggregate serial throughput reaching 1 Tbps.
Nordson has expanded Vantage dispensing for panel-level semiconductor packaging applications. Vantage XL combines thermal control, alignment, confocal height sensing, and inspection for larger-format advanced packaging processes.
Celera has raised $30 million for analogue design automation expansion. The Series B will support product development, customer programmes, and engineering growth in California and Portugal.
Trymax has secured equipment orders supporting AOI’s InP laser production. The systems will handle plasma ashing and UV curing as AOI expands high-speed optical transceiver capacity in Texas.
Infineon is supplying CoolSiC MOSFETs for Fox ESS storage systems. The 1200 V devices cut switching losses by 70%, lifting PQ3-Ultra peak inverter efficiency to 98.78%.