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UMC and Hyperlight hook up on TFLN

David Manners — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:29:22 +0000

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 ...

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Rapidus gets its first customer

David Manners — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:28:30 +0000

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. ...

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ASML 1000W light source to deliver 330wph EUV processing by 2030

David Manners — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:24:56 +0000

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 ...

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ASML sales soar

David Manners — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:55:44 +0000

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 ...

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TSMC to hike US investment to $465bn

David Manners — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:28:14 +0000

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 ...

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Rogue Valley Microdevices’ Florida facility opens doors for childcare

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:01:07 +0000

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 ...

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£1.5m grant for Novocomms switchable antenna

Steve Bush — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:16:00 +0000

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 ...

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TSMC to build ten 2nm fabs in Taiwan

David Manners — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:25:30 +0000

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 ...

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UK MEMS multi-project wafer pipeline

Steve Bush — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:40:31 +0000

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 ...

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Segger adds programmable system test to in-system programmers

Steve Bush — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:01:07 +0000

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 ...

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