The latest news, developments and announcements from around the electronics industry.
Cadence has launched the ChipStack AI Super Agent – agentic AI for front-end silicon design and verification. The Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent claims to provide up to 10X productivity improvements for coding designs and testbenches, creating test plans, orchestrating regression testing, debugging and automatically fixing issues. “ChipStack represents a major leap in our design-for-AI and AI-for-design strategy, applying agentic ...
Silicon wafer shipments in 2025 increased 5.8% to 12,973 million square inches (MSI) while wafer revenue slipped 1.2% to $11.4 billion over the same period, sayscthe SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). 2025 marks an inflection year for wafer shipments, with silicon MSI resuming growth supported by strong demand for advanced epitaxial wafers in logic and polished wafers for high-bandwidth memory ...
Infineon Technologies has raised €2 billion by selling corporate bonds under its European Medium Term Notes (EMTN) program. The placement was several times oversubscribed. It enables Infineon to refinance upcoming maturities in fiscal year 2026, to pay off the EUR bank loans made to buy Marvell’s Automotive Ethernet business and to pay for the planned acquisition of ams OSRAM’s non-optical ...
Rutronik has announced a range of transient voltage suppression (TVS) diodes from YAGEO for circuit protection. They cover standoff voltages from 5V to 600V and surge power ratings from 400W up to 5,000 W. And the AEC-Q101 qualified series is aimed at applications in automotive, industrial and energy markets. Other features highlighted by Rutronik include low-profile DFN packages for space-constrained ...
Hamamatsu Photonics has launched its S17268 Series photodiodes for high-precision optical detection in the UV to VIS regions. With a compact design for space-constrained application, sectors targeted include industrial, research, and environmental. For example, optical range finding industrial LiDAR, flow cytometry and particle counters. The surface-mount (SMD) type Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes (Si APDs) measure 1.8 × 2.0 × 0.9mm. And ...
In the latest CHIIPs podcast, Thomas Andersen, vice president for AI and machine learning at Synopsys, shatters the threat of AI for design engineering jobs as he discusses the use of AI by the EDA industry. It will be most beneficial where there is reuse, he believes, outlining how AI can be taught a design, and self-learning will allow it ...
The global tablet market continued its recovery in 2025, with shipments rising 9.8% y-o-y to 162 million units, according to Omdia. Momentum was strongest in Q4 2025, with shipments reaching 44 million units. Central and Eastern Europe emerged as the fastest-growing region in 2025, followed closely by Asia Pacific. All regions recorded double-digit growth during the year, except North America, ...
Vexlum, the Finnish manufacturer of semiconductor lasers, has raised €10m, consisting of €6m in equity funding from Kvantec, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) and the EIC Fund, plus a €2.4m grant from the EIC Accelerator and a €1.6m loan from Nordea to expand its manufacturing capabilities. Vexlum’s semiconductor-based Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VECSEL) technology addresses the lack of compact, cost-effective, high-power ...
Researchers from Edinburgh University, the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, the University of Lille, Grenoble Alpes University, the University of Bayreuth and the European Synchrotron facility have created a new type of highly effective semiconductor material. Until now the material, made by combining the chemical elements germanium and tin, was thought to be near-impossible to make, although research had suggested ...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in very large-scale photonic circuits. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. This solicitation includes a Controlled Unclassified Information Addendum that contains key technical ...
