UMC has formed a partnership with HyperLight, a spin out from Harvard University’s Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics, to mass produce thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) chiplets before the end of this year. TFLN is an optical interconnect material which enables faster data transmission and better power efficiency while generating less heat than silicon photonics. While silicon photonics is more mainstream with ...
Rapidus, Japan’s government-backed leading-edge chip startup, has got its first customer – Canon. Canon is going to order 2nm test chips designed by Synopsys to be fabbed at Rapidus’ Chitose site. Last month the company announced that it had raised $1.7bn from 32 private-sector companies (including Canon), with $634m of that coming from the government. Rapidus projects that it will need ...
ASML has developed a 1000W light source which should increase the throughput of its high-NA EUV machine from 220wph to 330wph by 2030. The advance has been achieved by doubling the rate at which the molten tin drops in an EUV machine are exposed to a CO₂ laser beam to create plasma that emits EUV radiation. By doubling the droplet ...
ASML has published its 2025 fourth-quarter and full-year results. Q4 total net sales were €9.7bn at a gross margin of 52.2% with net income of €2.8bn Quarterly net bookings in Q4 totalled €13.2bn, of which €7.4bn is EUV and 2025 total net sales were €32.7bn at a gross margin of 52.8% for a net income of €9.6bn. The backlog at ...
TSMC will build another five fabs in Arizona on top of the six fabs so far announced under a new trade deal between the US and Taiwan, which will be announced shortly, report the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The deal will hike TSMC’s investment in Arizona from the current $165bn to a total of $465bn. In return ...
Upon receipt of $6m in Chips Act funding, Oregon-based Rogue Valley Microdevices looked out-of-state to open its second facility. It will soon be opening the 50,000 sq ft facility in Palm Bay, Florida, expected to be the first 300mm-capable pureplay MEMS foundry in the US. “We tried for quite a few years to expand in Oregon,” said co-founder and CEO ...
Novocomms of Birmingham, UK, has £1.5m of Innovate UK funding to develop 28GHz in-antenna switches. “The components we are developing are based on addressable low-loss semiconductors which can be used to switch signals to the elements of an antenna array across a wide range of frequencies,” said Novocomms chairman Colin Tucker. “This addressability reduces the complexity of the PCB on ...
TSMC is to up its number of 2nm fabs in Taiwan to ten, reports Liberty Times. Previously it had planned seven 2nm fabs for Taiwan. Two of the ten are at the Baoshan site in Hsinchu; five at Kaohsiung and the additional three in Tainan. In the US, TSMC is building a three fab cluster which will all be 2nm ...
The UK is to get a MEMS multi-project wafer pipeline as the University of Southampton’s nascent Microcraft MEMS fab partners with Siemens’ Cre8Ventures EDA tool access programme. “The collaboration between Microcraft and Siemens Cre8Ventures is application-focused to deliver design-simulation-fabrication capability across UK and Europe,” Southampton associate director of business development Ibrahim Sari told Electronics Weekly. It is aimed broadly at ...
Segger has added system test capability to its ‘Flasher’ range of in-system programmers. “In addition to programming a target image, these devices can now run custom applications, thereby adding an entirely new layer of flexibility to the programming workflow,” according to the company, which calls the user-sourced C programmes ‘Flasher Apps’. “Flasher Apps run directly on a Flasher. They are ...
