The network of suppliers and logistics for semiconductor production – from raw wafer suppliers, chemical and gas companies, to fab equipment makers, packaging/test houses, and distributors. Supply chain issues (like material shortages, logistics delays, or trade restrictions) can heavily impact chip production. Managing supply chain resilience (multi-sourcing, onshoring critical steps) is a major industry focus, especially after recent shortages and geopolitical events.
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Denso, the Japanese auto parts supplier, has made an offer to buy Rohm for around $8.2 billion, reports the Nikkei. “We are considering various strategic options including the acquisition of ... The post Denso bids for Rohm appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
No one had very high career aspirations for teenager David A. Weston—except for Weston himself. Growing up in London, he scored low on the U.K. national assessment test given to students finishing primary school. The result meant that his next path was either to become a laborer or attend a...
A simmering dispute between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and Anthropic has now escalated into a full-blown confrontation, raising an uncomfortable but important question: who gets to set the guardrails for military use of artificial intelligence — the executive branch, private companies or Congress and the broader democratic...
TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner
In 2025 IEEE launched its first virtual career fair to help strengthen the engineering workforce and connect top talent with industry professionals. The event, which was held in the United States, attracted thousands of students and professionals. They learned about more than 500 job opportunities in high-demand fields including artificial...
From EML lasers and DSPs to silicon photonics and external CW lasers. How CPO works and the impact on the optical supply chain.
Every time you unlock your smartphone or start your connected car, you are generating a trail of digital evidence that can be used to track your every move.In Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, just published by NYU Press, law professor Andrew Guthrie...
Looming over the internet lasers and firestarting phones companies were touting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, was a more nebulous but much larger announcement: a pan-European cloud called EURO-3C.EURO-3C’s backers – Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica, dozens of other European companies, and the European Commission (EC) – aim...
HBM4 deal; war's impact on supply chain; U.S. AI framework; GPU smuggling; restart of H200 processors for China; SK hynix's memory prediction; TFLN photonics deal; test and metrology platforms; NoC verification automation; Tesla probe; AI distillation attacks. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
Escalating Middle East war exposes critical vulnerabilities in the semiconductor supply chain, driving re-shoring and fragmenting the global supply chains. The post Middle East Conflict Is Rewiring Global Supply Chains appeared first on EE Times.
A growing number of Nigerian companies are turning to kit-based assembly to bring electric vehicles to market in Africa. Lagos-based Saglev Micromobility Nigeria recently partnered with Dongfeng Motor Corporation, in Wuhan, China, to assemble 18-seat electric passenger vans from imported kits.Kit-based assembly allows Nigerian firms to reduce costs, create jobs,...
A technical examination of the sensing, motion control, power, and thermal challenges facing humanoid robotics engineers — with component-level design strategies for real-world deployment.What Attendees will LearnWhy motion control remains the hardest unsolved problem — Explore the modelling complexity, real-time feedback requirements, and sensor fusion demands of maintaining stable bipedal...
The chiplets design combines IP access, interposer expertise, and relationships with HBM suppliers, foundries and OSATs worldwide. The post Scoping out the chiplet-based design flow appeared first on EDN.
Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world.On 15 February 1946, ENIAC—developed in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia—was publicly demonstrated for the first time. Although primitive by today’s...
Most people who regularly use AI tools would say they’re making their lives easier. The technology promises to streamline and take over tasks both professionally and personally—whether that’s summarizing documents, drafting deliverables, generating code, or even offering emotional support. But researchers are concerned AI is making some tasks too easy,...
The fields of manufacturing, logistics, and even restaurants are increasingly moving toward automation, with robots being employed for a wide range of tasks. One of the most critical applications of robots is material handling, where grippers are used to move objects, such as automotive parts, logistics packages, food ingredients, and...
The Silicon Desert Map showcases Arizona technology companies that comprise Semiconductor, Hardware, Software, Emerging Technologies, IT, IoT, AI, Manufacturing, Research and Development, as well as all the supply chains. In addition, the map provides representation for HealthCare, Med Tech, Life Sciences, and pharmaceutical industries. Participants range from entrepreneurial Start-Ups to Fortune 100 multinationals, Academic...
Polar Light Technologies AB — which stems from research by founder professor Per-Olof Holtz and his team at Linköping University (with support from Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova) — has been awarded a European Union (EU) Eurostars grant.With a total budget of €1.1m, the 18-month project ‘2ndGenMicroLED’ aims to deliver the...
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!Engineers Aren’t Bad at Communication. They’re Just Speaking to the Wrong Audience.There’s a persistent...
An engineering deep dive into TSMC's COUPE optical engine, explaining why the co-design position of Himax makes them critical near-term suppliers for NVIDIA’s CPO, but without a long-term moat.
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany and solid-state transformer (SST) solutions firm DG Matrix are partnering to enhance the efficiency of power conversion required to connect AI data centers and industrial power applications to the public grid. As part of the collaboration, DG Matrix will source latest-generation silicon carbide (SiC)...
Last week’s Nvidia GTC conference highlighted new chip architectures to power AI. But as the chips become faster and more powerful, the remainder of data center infrastructure is playing catch-up. The power-delivery community is responding: Announcements from Delta, Eaton, and Vertiv showcased new designs for the AI era. Complex and...
This year’s annual International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS) Device Packaging Conference (DPC) in Arizona was bursting with excitement and acted as a platform for the industry’s brightest engineers, researchers, suppliers, and students from across the microelectronics packaging ecosystem to come together to share innovations shaping next-generation computing systems. With record...
Semiconductor production test and reliability qualification equipment supplier Aehr Test Systems of Fremont, CA, USA has received an initial order from a major new customer that is “a global leader in networking products and solutions” and a “major supplier to the data-center optical transceiver market”. The customer is developing advanced...
Phoenix, AZ – March 31, 2026. DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, today announced the availability of its Deos™ multi-core real-time operating system for the NXP S32G family of network application processors with verification evidence to DO-178C Design Assurance Level A (DAL...
Why transatlantic execution, not transatlantic symbolism, now matters to the electronics and semiconductor supply chain. The post From MOUs to Markets: Transatlantic Deals Face Reality Test appeared first on EE Times.
Düsseldorf, April 2, 2026 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced its radiation‑hardened (rad-hard) ICs are being used in NASA’s Artemis II mission, which successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1. The first crewed mission around the moon in decades, Artemis II represents a major milestone in...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNARSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEYSummer...