Category: Electronics
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Twenty-five governments are coordinating policy around secure next-generation 6G networks. The initiative puts interoperability, resilient supply chains, trusted AI, spectrum, and industry-led standards at the centre of international 6G development.
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TSMC expects silicon photonics to exceed half the transceiver market. AI networking demand is shifting the engineering challenge from proving optical integration towards lasers, fibres, connectors, testing, and repeatable volume manufacturing.
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EugenLight has launched high-power external lasers for emerging CPO systems. The ELSFP modules combine low-loss connectors, polarisation-maintaining fibre, hot-pluggability, and a production roadmap targeting volume manufacture during early 2027.
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IBM has completed its acquisition of quantum specialist HRL Laboratories. The deal adds silicon spin qubits, cryogenic control electronics, semiconductor processing, packaging, and interconnect expertise alongside IBM’s established superconducting quantum programme.
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TSMC is widening COUPE bandwidth through two silicon photonics paths. The roadmap increases channel rates and channel counts while adding wavelength multiplexing and deeper heterogeneous integration for AI interconnects.
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Indichem has opened a high-purity semiconductor materials plant in Korea. The KRW30bn operation combines Indian chemical synthesis with Korean purification, R&D, and pilot production for materials requiring parts-per-billion contamination control.
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Lion Micro plans new 300mm silicon wafer capacity in Jiaxing. The CNY3bn project targets 200,000 lightly doped substrates and 120,000 epitaxial wafers monthly, adding further large-diameter capacity to China’s semiconductor materials sector.
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Taisic has produced a 12-inch SiC boule using domestic equipment. The development links the company’s substrate operation with a Kenmec-developed crystal-growth furnace, while published evidence complicates claims that it is Taiwan’s first 300mm SiC crystal.
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Pragmatic is deepening its China push around flexible semiconductor technology. The UK manufacturer is pairing a new Chinese identity and NFC demonstrations with further production expansion at its County Durham fabrication site.
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Finnish startup S-Transistors has raised €2.6m for superconducting electronics development. The VTT spinout plans cryogenic control prototypes, a pilot manufacturing line, and an initial multiplexer aimed at quantum-computing systems.