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Hongkang ramps silicon photonics testing investment with first system due in August

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digitimes.com 2026-06-22

Semiconductor testing and analysis service provider Hongkang held its annual shareholders' meeting on June 18. Chairperson Hsieh Yung-fen said the company has begun investing in a silicon photonics wafer-and-chip optoelectronic analysis platform in anticipation of growing demand for silicon photonics. The first system is expected to be installed before August 2026, followed by a second and third s

MSScorps expands Taiwan investment again for silicon photonics

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digitimes.com 2026-06-22

Taiwan's investment office, InvesTaiwan, under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, has approved expanded Taiwan investment plans from four companies, led by MSScorps, which will invest NT$1.5 billion (US$47.4 million) and is filing for the third time. The company plans to add production lines and adopt AI technology at its Hsinchu, Tai Yuen Hi-Tech Industrial Park, and Southern Taiwan Science Park (

Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) Stock Could Be 8.6% Undervalued After IQE Silicon Photonics Deal - simplywall.st

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simplywall.st 2026-06-20 simplywall.st

United States/Semiconductors/NasdaqGS:TSEM Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) Stock Could Be 8.6% Undervalued After IQE Silicon Photonics Deal June 20, 2026 Simply Wall St Share Copy Link Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) has drawn fresh attention after IQE plc agreed to supply Indium Phosphide epiwafers under a multi-year deal related to AI data center optical connectivity and the expansion of silicon photonic

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Post-silicon era gets closer as industry giants crack the 2D transistor scaling bottleneck with breakthrough tech — imec, ASML, and TSMC fab complementary 2D-material transistors at 50nm pitch on a 300mm wafer - Tom's Hardware

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www.tomshardware.com 2026-06-19 Tom's Hardware

Tech Industry Manufacturing Semiconductors Post-silicon era gets closer as industry giants crack the 2D transistor scaling bottleneck with breakthrough tech — imec, ASML, and TSMC fab complementary 2D-material transistors at 50nm pitch on a 300mm wafer News-analysis By Luke James published June 19, 2026 EUV-printed 28nm gates and 94% working devices, all on standard production tooling. (Imag

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Silicon Carbide Enters the AI Era: Powering the Next Generation of Data Centers - Pandaily

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pandaily.com 2026-06-19 Pandaily

categories.technology Silicon Carbide Enters the AI Era: Powering the Next Generation of Data Centers Published: June 19, 2026 Reading Time: 2 min read Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? The silicon carbide device market is projected to reach $11 billion by 2031, driven by AI data center power demands, EV adoption, and renewable energy, with Chinese players rapidly expanding m

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Scammers in China sell $222 RTX 4090 with fake GPU die made out of plastic instead of real silicon

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tomshardware.com 2026-06-19 Hassam Nasir

Nvidia dupes keep getting more sophisticated as time goes on, with the latest example using a plastic die instead of real silicon on an RTX 4090.

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Architect Labs nabs $24M to speed up chip design projects with AI - SiliconANGLE

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siliconangle.com 2026-06-19 SiliconANGLE

Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc. launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. Kindred Ventures led the seed round. It was joined by Perplexity AI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aravind Srinivas, Transformer co-inventor Lukasz Kaiser, former OpenAI Group PBC executive Srinivas Narayanan and more than a half-dozen others. Designing a chip can take years of

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[News] World’s First Mass-Produced GaN-on-Silicon RF Chip for Smart Terminals Surpasses 5 Million Units Shipped - TrendForce

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www.trendforce.com 2026-06-19 TrendForce

[News] World’s First Mass-Produced GaN-on-Silicon RF Chip for Smart Terminals Surpasses 5 Million Units Shipped 2026-06-19 Semiconductors editor News Please note that this article cites information from Science and Technology Daily. As per Science and Technology Daily, the first gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) radio frequency (RF) chip for smart terminals to enter mass production

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Nvidia and CoreWeave develop agentic AI infrastructure - SiliconANGLE

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siliconangle.com 2026-06-19 SiliconANGLE

CoreWeave Inc. wants to step in before the infrastructure stack buckles under the weight of agentic artificial intelligence. The company recently announced the industry’s first validation of Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave Cloud. This suggests that AI infrastructure is entering a new stage, according to Rob Strechay, principal analyst for theCUBE Research, who sees CoreWeave as one of multip

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Synergy Quantum Unveils Quantum-Safe Silicon IP Cores for RISC-V-Based SoCs - Yahoo Finance Singapore

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sg.finance.yahoo.com 2026-06-19 Yahoo Finance Singapore

This is a paid press release. Contact the press release distributor directly with any enquiries. Synergy Quantum Unveils Quantum-Safe Silicon IP Cores for RISC-V-Based SoCs PR Newswire Thu, 18 June 2026 at 10:40 am GMT-7 7 min read Post-quantum cryptographic and hardware-security IP enables chipmakers to integrate quantum-safe key establishment, digital signatures, secure boot and device trust di

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Synergy Quantum Unveils Quantum-Safe Silicon IP Cores for RISC-V-Based SoCs - PR Newswire

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www.prnewswire.com 2026-06-19 PR Newswire

Synergy Quantum Unveils Quantum-Safe Silicon IP Cores for RISC-V-Based SoCs NEWS PROVIDED BY Synergy Quantum India Private Limited 18 Jun, 2026, 23:10 IST SHARE THIS ARTICLE Post-quantum cryptographic and hardware-security IP enables chipmakers to integrate quantum-safe key establishment, digital signatures, secure boot and device trust directly into RISC-V-based silicon NEW DELHI, June

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QUALCOMM (QCOM) Is Up 11.4% After Launching Custom AI Data Center Silicon With a Hyperscaler - Yahoo Finance

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finance.yahoo.com 2026-06-18 Yahoo Finance

QUALCOMM (QCOM) Is Up 11.4% After Launching Custom AI Data Center Silicon With a Hyperscaler Sasha Jovanovic Wed, June 17, 2026 at 11:09 PM PDT 3 min read QCOM +6.17% Trade QCOM on Coinbase Trading disclosure In recent weeks, Qualcomm has moved beyond its smartphone roots by launching a custom AI data center silicon program with a leading hyperscaler, expanding collaborations in XR, edge AI, and

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SMIC narrows Intel's metal pitch gap, but Kirin 9030 teardown shows China's chip limits remain

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digitimes.com 2026-06-18

A teardown of Huawei's latest Mate 80 Pro Max smartphone has put China's semiconductor progress back under scrutiny, after analysis showed the HiSilicon Kirin 9030 processor was made on SMIC's third-generation 7nm-class N+3 process with a local metal pitch narrower than that of Intel's 18A chip used in Panther Lake.

dorsaVi (ASX:DVL) locks in RRAM-CMOS chip design and the program finally moves to silicon - Stocks Down Under

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stocksdownunder.com 2026-06-18 Stocks Down Under

Tape-out clears the path to validation data, with compute-in-memory and TSMC-sourced wafers framing the commercial pitch dorsaVi (ASX:DVL) has reached the moment its RRAM equity story has been pointing toward for the better part of two years. The company has finalised the full design package for its first integrated RRAM-CMOS validation chip, developed alongside NTU Singapore and ITRI Taiwan, and

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Qualcomm’s latest chip promises to take smart glasses to a new level - SiliconValley.com

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www.siliconvalley.com 2026-06-18 SiliconValley.com

BUSINESS News Qualcomm’s latest chip promises to take smart glasses to a new level The San Diego chip maker took the stage at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach on Tuesday to unveil the Snapdragon Reality Elite Ziad Asghar, Qualcomm’s senior vice president of XR, Wearables and Personal AI, announced its new chip technology that powers smart glasses during the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach

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Silicon Motion's client PCIe 6.x roadmap is driven by Nvidia, not by AMD and Intel

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tomshardware.com 2026-06-17 Anton Shilov

Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention.

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Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips - Tom's Hardware

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www.tomshardware.com 2026-06-17 Tom's Hardware

PC Components RAM Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips News By Zhiye Liu published 5 hours ago Some Chinese module makers are turning their backs on the big three RAM suppliers. (Image credit: Getty Images) Share this article 1 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a pref

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Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon

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tomshardware.com 2026-06-17 Zhiye Liu

Chinese memory brands Gloway and KingBank have begun using homemade chips to produce DDR5 memory kits in lieu of Samsung, Micron, or SK hynix DRAM.

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Can Chinese silicon replace Nvidia? Here are 5 AI models trained on local chips - South China Morning Post

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www.scmp.com 2026-06-17 South China Morning Post

Artificial intelligence TechTech Trends Can Chinese silicon replace Nvidia? Here are 5 AI models trained on local chips A growing number of Chinese AI labs are experimenting with shifting earlier model training phases onto domestic chips 3-MIN READ 0 Listen Make SCMP preferred on Google Xinmei Shen Published: 2:30pm, 17 Jun 2026 Chinese artificial intelligence models have become increasingly co

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Qualcomm is quietly working on 40 AI wearable designs, and the real story isn't the glasses — it's the sensor pipeline every AI company wants to own - Silicon Canals

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siliconcanals.com 2026-06-17 Silicon Canals

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