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- Siemens And TSMC Deepen AI Chip Design Pact, Add DRC Fixing Agent For N2 And A16 — — Siemens and TSMC extended their Open Innovation Platform tie-up on September 23, 2026 with a joint AI-powered DRC fixing agent and expanded Calibre, A...
- Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed To Aim AI Agent Swarms At Cooler AI Chips — — YC-backed Discovered Materials pulled in $9M led by Lightspeed India to run swarms of AI research agents 24/7 in search of cooler substrate materials...
- BrainChip Puts Akida AKD1500 On A PCIe Card So Any Desktop Can Run Edge AI — — BrainChip drops its Akida AKD1500 neuromorphic silicon on a plug-and-play PCIe card, aiming to move edge-AI evaluation from lab benches to any worksta...
- FIU Signs IonQ For Florida's First On-Campus Superion 256 Quantum Computer — — IonQ said on September 24, 2026 that Florida International University will host its Superion 256 trapped-ion quantum computer in Miami by late 2027 —...
- memQ Open-Sources Distributed Quantum Compiler For Heterogeneous QPUs — — Chicago-based memQ released memQ DQC on September 24, 2026, an open-source framework for compiling and scheduling programs across networks of heteroge...
- Nexstrom Raises $12M Seed To Bring First 12-Inch 2D Semiconductors To Foundries — — Singapore startup Nexstrom raised $12M seed led by Xora Innovation to industrialise transition-metal dichalcogenide 2D chip materials on standard 300...
- TSMC Sets 3-6% Wafer Price Hike For 2027 As AI Orders Face 21% Bill — — TSMC has told customers wafer-out prices will rise 3-6% from January 2027, with an additional 10-15% HPC surcharge on AI overflow orders that could pu...
- IonQ And SDT Ink First Quantum Computer + Networking Deal In Asia-Pacific — — IonQ and Korea's SDT announced a multi-year partnership to deploy the Superion 256, build a hybrid quantum-classical data center and stand up a Gumi m...
- Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 With 30B-Parameter On-Device AI — — At Snapdragon Summit 2026, Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a higher-binned Extreme variant, both on a 2nm node and tuned for on-dev...
- AMD Joins The $1 Trillion Club As Data-Center Revenue Doubles To $6.7B — — AMD crossed $1 trillion in market cap for the first time on September 21, 2026, driven by data-center revenue that more than doubled to $6.7B on AI-wo...
- Morphotonics Closes €40M Series B To Scale Nanoimprint For AR Waveguides And Data Centers — — Dutch nanoimprint lithography leader Morphotonics closed a €40M Series B extension to scale AR-waveguide manufacturing and enter co-packaged optics fo...
- Anderon Locks In $1B CHIPS Award For US Pure-Play Quantum Wafer Foundry — — IBM's Anderon finalizes a $1B CHIPS award, matched by $1B of IBM money, to scale the US' first pure-play quantum wafer foundry at Albany NanoTech.
- MediaTek Debuts 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro, Claims 61% Lower Multi-Core Power — — MediaTek's first 2nm SoC lands with a 2+3+3 all-big-core CPU, dual-NPU AI engine and 55% higher tokens-per-watt for on-device LLMs.
- Winbond Buys Infineon's NOR Flash And F-RAM Unit For $1.12B, Revives Spansion — — Winbond will pay $1.12B in cash for Infineon's NOR flash and F-RAM business, reviving the Spansion brand and pushing its global NOR share past 30%.
- Applied Materials And Lam Research Pledge $6B+ For India Chip Buildout At SEMICON 2026 — — Applied Materials committed $5 billion over a decade and Lam Research pledged roughly Rs 10,000 crore for India's first vertically integrated wafer-fa...
- Altera Signs Rutronik As New European FPGA Distributor — — Independent Altera hands Rutronik a strategic distribution agreement covering Agilex 3, 5, 7, 9 and legacy Stratix, MAX and Cyclone FPGAs across Europ...
- GlobalFoundries And Marvell Expand SiGe Deal For AI Data Center Optics — — GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology are expanding their multi-year silicon germanium agreement, adding fresh SiGe capacity at GF's Burlington, Verm...
- Nexperia And Tata Electronics Team Up To Build MOSFETs In India — — Nexperia and Tata Electronics have signed a strategic partnership to co-produce MOSFETs at Tata's Dholera 300mm fab and its Jagiroad OSAT plant, givin...
- Xili Optoelectronics Bags RMB 100M Pre-Series A For TFLN Photonic AI Chips — — Hangzhou-based Xili Optoelectronics closes a Pre-Series A round of roughly RMB 100 million led by Futeng Capital to mass-produce thin-film lithium nio...
- QBit Semiconductor Targets Humanoids And Drones With QB88XX 'Cerebellum' Chip — — Taipei-listed QBit Semiconductor unveiled a Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller SoC that runs a 32-motor humanoid hand on one chip, plus a QB77XX...