David Manners

May semiconductor sales of $120.6 billion were up 9.2% on April’s $110.5 billion and 104.1% more than the $59.1 billion of May 2025, says the SIA. “The

Nanya, the Taiwanese DRAM manufacturer, is to increase its capex next year by 4x from $1.5 billion this year to $6.2 billion next year as it builds a new

Vishay has brought out an automotive 1 MBd high speed optocoupler in a new SOP-5 package with a narrow width of 3.6 mm. Combining a comparative tracking

Rapidus is preparing to charge between $18,460 and $21 ,540 for a 2nm foundry wafer which contrasts with $30k at TSMC and Intel and $20k at Samsung,

PC shipments fell 4.9% year over year in Q2 2026 to 68.2 million units, according to IDC — the first decline after nine consecutive quarters of growth. A

Pixel-Flo, a spinout from the University of Sheffield’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has secured £5.25 million funding to enhance

Earlier today TSMC reported Q2 revenues up 36% YoY at $39.6 billion. For June, TSMC revenue rose 67.9% YoY and 6.2% MoM to $13.8 billion. For the first

Tesla’s A15 chip is to be fabbed concurrently on the 2nm processes of TSMC in Taiwan and Samsung’s Taylor, Texas fab. TSMC’s Arizona fab site may be added

China’s grid-scale battery energy storage capacity surged from just 2.4 gigawatts in 2020 to more than 140 gigawatts in 2025 – far ahead of the United

Intel today announced a $5.7 billion capital investment in Fab 34 at Leixlip, Ireland, to retrofit the fab for the Intel 3 process. Intel is scaling