Semiconductor Foundry
Applied Materials, Intel, Besi and KIOXIA partner at Silicon Valley EPIC Center on AI chip technologies
Applied Materials announced it is working with Intel Corporation to develop next-generation transistors, interconnects, and advanced packaging technologies. The effort will use capabilities from Applied’s EPIC Center in Silicon Valley and Intel’s R&D campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. T
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Teradyne Titan HP Platform Adds Enhanced Burn-In for High-Power AI Data Center and Automotive Chips
Teradyne has announced a production-ready system that delivers enhanced burn-in capabilities on its Titan HP platform. The system targets high-power AI, automotive, and other high-reliability semiconductor devices, with the stated aim of lowering cost of test, factory floor space, and time to mar
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Beyond the Chip: The Non-Semiconductor Engineering Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight at Semicon India 2026
A 300mm fab needs lithography scanners and clean silicon, but it also needs cranes, orbital welders, HVAC engineers, gas-line specialists, contamination-control instruments and, eventually, trade-secrets lawyers. Semicon India 2026 made an unusually strong case that the biggest opportunity
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Why the World's Semiconductor Equipment Makers Are Gravitating Toward India
Fabs get the headlines, but nothing inside one runs without capital equipment, ultra-pure gases and chemicals, and the mechanical infrastructure that keeps a cleanroom a cleanroom. Semicon India 2026 was the clearest signal yet that the world's equipment majors are done watching India from a dist
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Who Showed Up: The Global Semiconductor Names Anchoring Semicon India 2026
More than 600 exhibitors and around 300 international companies filled Yashobhoomi over three days. A smaller group of names, however, set the tone for the entire event through the scale of what they announced, not just the size of their booths. Tata Electronics:&nbs
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Ready, Steady, Grow: Inside Tata Electronics' Race to Build India's Only High-Volume Logic Fab
Three days at Yashobhoomi confirmed what India's semiconductor watchers had suspected for months that Tata Electronics is no longer just building a factory in Gujarat. It is stitching together the supply chain, the equipment partners and the workforce that will decide whether India's first
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Semiconductor Etch Leader Lam Research Opens 470,000-Square-Foot Livermore Hub for Chip Supply Chain and AI
Semiconductor equipment leader Lam Research has opened its largest U.S. warehouse, a 470,000-square-foot logistics and supply chain hub in Livermore, California. The facility is designed to strengthen the semiconductor supply chain and support demand for AI-enabled technologies. It improves Lam&r
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Four Years, A Different Country: How Fast India's Electronics and Semiconductor Landscape Has Actually Changed
Set the numbers from electronica India and productronica India 2026 alongside those from Semicon India 2026, and a single story emerges: in roughly four years, India's electronics and semiconductor design and manufacturing scenario has moved from policy announcements to commercial production line
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SMART Photonics and GlobalFoundries launch open access foundry for silicon and indium phosphide photonics
SMART Photonics B.V. announced its partnership with GlobalFoundries (GF) to offer a new open access foundry service. The service combines GlobalFoundries’ silicon platform with SMART Photonics’ high-volume indium phosphide photonic integrated circuits (PICs), including lasers and modu
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Crystal Clear: Why India's Semiconductor Ambitions Now Hinge on Silicon Crystal Growth
SEMICON India 2026 closed this past weekend at Delhi's Yashobhoomi Convention Centre, capping three days built around the theme "Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem." The event drew more than 600 companies and delegations from 52 countries. But beneath the headline investment announcements
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Global Foundry revenue nears $53.49 billion in Q2 2026; SMIC closes gap with Samsung, TrendForce reports
TrendForce's latest foundry industry research shows the combined revenue of the world's top 10 foundries rose 11.5% quarter-over-quarter to nearly $53.49 billion in the second quarter of 2026, setting another record high. Growth was driven by ongoing capacity constrai
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The Invisible Layer India's Semiconductor Buildout is Missing
Why lithography data preparation, process simulation, mask correction and metrology matter as much as the multi-million-dollar hardware, from research prototyping through to volume production
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