Semiconductors

Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics agreed to acquire Sequans Communications S.A. for approximately US$249 million, including net debt. Under the deal, Renesas will initiate a cash tender offer of $3.03 per Sequans...

Micron Technology is now sampling its new CZ120 CXL memory expansion modules in 128GB and 256GB capacities in the E3.S 2T form factor, which uses PCIe Gen5 x8 interface.  The...

Tenstorrent, a start-up based in Toronto with offices in Austin and Santa Clara, closed a $100M strategic financing up-round led by Hyundai Motor Group and Samsung Catalyst Fund, with participation...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, promising up to 15%  better...

AMD plans to invest approximately $400 million investment over the next five years to expand its R&D in India. The planned investment includes a new 500,000-square-foot AMD campus in Bangalore,...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation acquired an equity position in Novel Crystal Technology, Inc., a Japanese company that develops and sells gallium-oxide wafers.  Novel Crystal Technology, one of the world's first companies...

Intel reported Q2 revenue of $12.9 billion, down 15% year over year (YoY). The results beat expectations on gross margin and EPS. Intel also raised guidance for the remaining part...

Broadcom announced shipment of its new Trident 4-X7 Ethernet switch ASIC— a 4.0 Terabits/second fully programmable switch designed for enterprise data center ToR (Top of Rack) boxes. The Trident 4-X7...

Ericsson has selected Intel’s 18A process and foundry service for its next-generation optimized 5G silicon. 18A is Intel's most advanced node on the company's five-nodes-in-four-years roadmap. After new gate-all-around transistor...

Cerebras Systems and G42, the UAE-based technology holding group, are building a network of nine interconnected supercomputers, offering a new approach to AI compute that promises to significantly reduce AI...

Silicon Box, a start-up based in Singapore, unveiled plans for a $2 billion advanced semiconductor foundry and packaging facility. The venture, which as founded by Sehat Sutardja, his wife Weili...

A new Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has been established with the goal of bringing together leading companies for industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance...

Samsung announced the industry’s first Graphics Double Data Rate 7 (GDDR7) DRAM with a bandwidth of 1.5-terabytes-per second, yielding 1.4X boost in performance versus GDDR6, which Samsung introduced in 2022....