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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say they can stack high-performance silicon at low temperatures with near-perfect yields.

Samsung has struck a semiconductor profit-sharing deal that could deliver extraordinary bonuses to memory chip workers while averting a strike and highlighting how AI demand is reshaping the industry.

Nvidia says its annual spending with suppliers in Taiwan has climbed to as much as $150 billion, underscoring how sharply the AI hardware boom has scaled.

Samsung’s two largest unions approved a wage agreement that ties outsized chip-division bonuses to long-term profit targets and avoids a strike with broad economic stakes.

A Virginia-based firm has begun manufacturing 1-alpha DRAM, described as the most advanced memory ever produced in the United States, with potential implications for defense and industrial systems.

Ahead of a June 10 virtual seminar, Zeiss is highlighting a new Crossbeam 750 FIB-SEM workflow aimed at cleaner endpointing, better signal quality, and lower sample damage in advanced chip analysis.

A huge return from Cerebras is reinforcing venture capital’s renewed appetite for companies that combine software with chips, robotics, energy, and defense systems.

New research suggests spin qubits hosted in quantum dots can be moved from one dot to another without destroying quantum information, potentially combining the manufacturing advantages of electronic qubits with the flexi

Intel’s shares have soared on expectations that CEO Lip-Bu Tan can revive the chipmaker, but the company’s manufacturing and execution challenges remain unresolved.

Intel’s stock jumped 13% after a report said Apple is exploring Intel and Samsung Electronics as manufacturing partners for future device chips, signaling how strategically important outside foundry options have become.

AI chipmaker Cerebras is making a second attempt at going public, aiming for a valuation around $40 billion after strong revenue growth and its first profit.

Northland Power has signed a 30-year corporate power purchase agreement with TSMC tied to the 1.02 GW Hai Long offshore wind project, extending contracted revenue and deepening a major industrial clean-power partnership.

Apple reported its best March quarter ever, but the company warned that rising memory chip costs could weigh on iPhone production and broader hardware economics in coming quarters.

Meta reported strong revenue growth, but investors focused on a much bigger number: capital expenditures that could top $145 billion as the company accelerates its AI catch-up campaign.

A warning from consultant Stephan Keese highlights how a conflict-driven helium shortage could ripple into semiconductor production and put pressure on ADAS adoption in the auto industry.

A prolonged memory shortage may continue to squeeze electronics makers for years, with production expected to meet only 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027 and new capacity largely aimed at AI-focused memory.

Intel’s new non-Ultra Core Series 3 processors mark a break from recycled older designs, introducing fresh Wildcat Lake silicon with updated CPU, GPU, NPU, connectivity, and memory support

Researchers describe a memristor design that operated for more than 50 hours at 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit and survived more than a billion switching cycles, pointing to new electronics for extreme environments.

SiFive has raised an oversubscribed $400 million round led by Atreides Management, underscoring growing investor interest in open RISC-V chip designs for AI data centers.

An IEEE Spectrum report highlights a MEMS photonics device small enough to project images at extreme miniaturization, with roots in quantum-computing hardware research.