Worldwide Silicon Wafer Shipments Reach Record High in Third Quarter of 2021, SEMI Reports

Worldwide silicon wafer shipments increased 3.3% to 3,649 million square inches in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the previous quarter, a new industry record, the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) reported in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

SensiML Teams with onsemi for Industrial Edge AI Sensing Applications

SensiML Corporation, a developer of AI tools for building intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, today announced that it has teamed with onsemi to deliver a complete machine learning solution for autonomous sensor data processing and predictive modeling.

OQmented Secures $9.3M of Funding

OQmented today announced that it extended its seed round and secured an additional USD 9.3 million. New investors IT-Farm, Leblon Capital, and Deeptech-A join a syndicate that includes Vsquared Ventures (Vsquared), Salvia, and Baltic Business Angels, along with several Angel investors.

The Lab of the Future May Be Here Before We Know It

Momentum for digital technologies in lab research is growing and was further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, causing teams to rapidly adopt digital tools and rethink their current processes, according to new data from Lux Research.

Semtech’s LoRa Devices and the LoRaWAN Standard Boost Urban Forest Management

Semtech Corporation announced that ICT International, an Internet of Things (IoT) solution provider for environmental applications, is leveraging Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard to improve urban forest management and carbon accounting.

POET Technologies Collaborates with a Leading Global Supplier of Lasers for POET’s Optical Interposer Platform

POET Technologies Inc. today reported that it has agreed on the first phase of a supply agreement with a global supplier of lasers and other components used in high-speed optical networking equipment.

Aehr Receives $7.6 Million Order for WaferPak Full Wafer Contactors

Aehr Test Systems today announced it has received a $7.6 million order from its lead silicon carbide test and burn-in customer for WaferPak full wafer Contactors to meet their increased production capacity needs.

FLEX Conference to Co-locate with SEMICON West in 2022

SEMICON West, North America’s premier microelectronics exhibition and conference that unites players across the entire electronics manufacturing and design supply chain, and FLEX Conference, the annual event focused on flexible hybrid and printed electronics innovations, will co-locate at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, July 11-14, 2022.

Towards Self-Restoring Electronic Devices with Long DNA Molecules

The potential of DNA structural properties in single-molecule electronics has finally been harnessed by researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in a single-molecule junction device that shows spontaneous self-restoring ability.

Optomechanical Signal Processing Through Acoustic-Wave Interference on a Silicon Chip

Recently, a research team led by Professor Heedeuk Shin of the Department of Physics at POSTECH has successfully demonstrated an optical-wave signal that can be amplified or canceled using optically driven acoustic waves on a silicon chip for the first time in the world.