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Startup Funding: Q2 2026
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By Jesse Allen - 13 Jul, 2026 - Comments: 0
Investors kept pouring money into AI hardware startups in the second quarter of 2026. While companies focused on chips for AI data centers have largely dominated the funding over the past year, startups creating edge silicon re-emerged this quarter as investors see the appeal of physical AI and real-time on-device applications. However, large-scale AI infrastructure chips and other attendant as... » read more
Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 05 Jun, 2026 - Comments: 0
Computex in Taiwan:
Arm and Nvidia introduced an AI PC platform, RTX Spark, with an Arm-based Grace CPU, Blackwell RTX GPU, and unified memory.
Cadence announced a fully autonomous virtual agentic AI design engineer, enabling customers to run dynamic simulations in automated workflows.
Intel launched Xeon 6+, its first data-center CPU built on Intel Foundry's 18A process. The company... » read more
Annual Global IC Fabs And Facilities Report
By Liz Allan - 07 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0
Semiconductor companies announced a significant number of facilities in 2025 as global onshoring efforts continued across manufacturing, materials, packaging, design, and R&D.
Investments came from both industry and government sources. Organizations worked together to solve current technology challenges, including soaring demand for AI chips and advanced memory, as well as complex applic... » read more
Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 28 Nov, 2025 - Comments: 0
Breaking news: Nvidia and Synopsys announced a multi-faceted, multi-year deal that includes everything from digital twins to CUDA programming, engineering, and marketing collaboration, and Nvidia's $2B purchase of Synopsys stock.
[Updated 12/1]
Memory news:
Micron is building a $9.6B HBM facility in the city of Higashi-Hiroshima Japan, reports Nikkei.
China's ChangXin Memory Technol... » read more
Chip Industry Week in Review
By The SE Staff - 17 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit kicked off this week in San Jose, dominated by open standards, massive scaling of AI infrastructure, chiplet architectures, and energy-efficiency. Among the highlights:
An initiative to standardize data center infrastructure and advance Ethernet for AI.
New contributions to OCP's Open Chiplet Economy ecosystem, including Arm's new Foundation Chiplet... » read more
Chip Industry Week in Review
By The SE Staff - 23 May, 2025 - Comments: 0
Podcast: imec's roadmap and a one-on-one interview with the European research house's chief strategy officer.
China's Xiaomi debuted an in-house-designed 10-core mobile SoC built on a 3nm process. The company did not identify the foundry. It also announced plans to invest 50 billion yuan (~$7B) over the next decade to develop high-end smartphone chips, as part of a 200 billion yuan (~$28B) c... » read more
Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 18 Apr, 2025 - Comments: 0
[Podcast version is here.]
TSMC said it will produce 30% of its leading-edge chips in Arizona when all six of its fabs are operational, a total investment of $165 billion, Axios reported. In its latest SEC filing, the foundry said it continues to add capacity in Taiwan, Arizona, Japan, and Germany.
The Trump administration launched a Section 232 investigation into semiconductors and relat... » read more
Global IC Fabs And Facilities Report: 2024
By Liz Allan - 21 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0
The chip industry made significant capital investments this year to build new fabs and facilities or expand existing premises. A number of sites were dedicated to SiC, GaN, DRAM, HBM, along with packaging and assembly by OSATs, and essential gases, chemicals, and other components. More than a dozen R&D centers were also established for 8-inch wafers, EUV, and advanced packaging. Investments... » read more
Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 11 Oct, 2024 - Comments: 0
Imec announced a new automotive chiplet consortium to evaluate which different architectures and packaging technologies are best for automotive applications. Initial members includes Arm, ASE, Cadence, Siemens, Synopsys, Bosch, BMW, Tenstorrent, Valeo, and SiliconAuto. Imec also launched star, a global network bringing together automotive and semiconductor innovators to address technological c... » read more
Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 07 Jun, 2024 - Comments: 0
Rapidus and IBM are jointly developing mass production capabilities for chiplet-based advanced packages. The collaboration builds on an existing agreement to develop 2nm process technology.
Vanguard and NXP will jointly establish VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC) in Singapore to build a $7.8 billion, 12-inch wafer plant. This is part of a global supply chain shift “Out... » read more
Trending ArticlesChip Industry Week In Review
Fab expansion accelerates; China advances memory and EUV; Teradyne's test deal; SEMICON West and OCP highlights; 3D SiP; TSMC and ASML signals; 300mm fab spending; optical and 3D-compute startups raise fresh funding; quantum HW advances.
by The SE Staff
Why Physical AI Is So Hard To Engineer
Integrating sensors, compute, and actuators into autonomous systems adds new challenges for chip design.
by Brian Bailey
Chip Industry Week In Review
CHIPS Act $389M to power chips, vertical GaN, materials; Micron's memory roadmap; Nvidia expands supply chain capacity; Tenstorrent raises $1.5B; China NAND fabs; 800V power for AI data centers; Intel advances Arizona fab; China orders +$35B in Nvidia GPUs.
by The SE Staff
Chip Industry Week In Review
Marvell to buy Lumentum; HBM shortages threaten AI expansion; TSMC weighs price hikes; advanced packaging ramps; domain-specialized AI models; Infineon and UMC boost fab investments; Intel's quantum move; Lam and imec advance 3D integration; Google expands TPUs; AI-driven earnings; CPU benchmarking methodology for agentic AI.
by The SE Staff
How Close Are We To Fully Autonomous Chip Design?
Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi talks about AI agents, the limits of autonomous engineering, digital twins, and the challenges facing 3D-ICs.
by Ed Sperling
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by Ed Sperling
Self-Driving Cars Have An Aging Problem
AI workloads are pushing automotive sensors harder, forcing engineers to rethink how long safety-critical systems can be trusted.
Chip Industry Week In Review
DAC's big buzz; CHIPS Act $; China's immersion DUV; UMC expands; SIA's state of the industry; DRAM shortages; earnings; PCB design credential program; IBM's quantum advantage; AI security alliance; foreign robotics ban.
by The SE Staff
Chip Industry Week In Review
2D Tunnel FET; in-memory photonic computing; India's $13.4B Semicon 2.0; SEMICON Taiwan; PCIe 6/7 test; MediaTek deal; 300mm Si photonics; InP expansion; $75M to recycle rare earths; GF PDKs; Gain-Cell RAM; edge AI developer tools; heterogeneous HBM; safe AI in SDVs.
by The SE Staff
Chip Industry Week In Review
Lam Research and ASE expansions; data center shifts; CPO system architecture initiative; 2D-transistor interface solution; USENIX HW security; patent suits; image sensors; programmable AI memtransistor; Nvidia's new plan; earnings; Tier IV's L4 auto chip.
by The SE Staff
Copper’s Grip On AI Scaling Is Starting To Slip
As AI clusters push beyond rack-scale limits, optical interconnects and circuit switching are reshaping how data centers scale.
by Bryon Moyer
Chip Industry Week In Review
New Micron lab; chip/AI price jump; multi-die monitoring; cryo links for quantum chips; interconnect RC bottleneck; 18A win; CPO roadmap; 2 new CEOs; humanoid readiness gap; Hot Interconnects.
by The SE Staff
Semiconductor Earnings Roundup: Revenue, Growth and Takeaways
Company-by-company breakdown: Earnings across +80 semiconductor companies show AI-driven demand extending well beyond the usual suspects.
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