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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced its expanded Wi-Fi 7 portfolio, with new front-end modules (FEMs) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filters designed to enhance range and coverage across 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands...

Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA — which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) and integrated circuits for power management applications — is developing power converters to accelerate the adoption of 800VDC distribution systems for the next generation of AI data centers...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and developed and previously manufactured high-power industrial blue lasers — has reaffirmed that it remains in full compliance with NYSE American regulatory disclosure requirements. This follows the resolution of a technical communication timing issue, related to the coordination of press release dissemination...

Raj Gawera has been appointed as chief operating officer (COO) of the UK Semiconductor Centre, leading its early mobilization and engagement as it builds plans to champion the UK semiconductor sector on the global stage...

The UK Semiconductor Centre has moved into its next phase of mobilization with the announcement of its newly formed Interim Steering Group...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that it is supporting the 800V direct current (VDC) power architecture announced by NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, USA at Computex 2025 for AI infrastructure...

STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveiled a complete prototype of its new power delivery system as it develops new chip designs supporting the 800VDC power architecture announced by NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, USA for next-generation AI data centers...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spin-out Vertical Semiconductor has raised $11m in a seed funding round led by Playground Global of Palo Alto, CA, USA to help accelerate development of vertical gallium nitride (GaN) transistors for AI chips in data centers. Additional investors include JIMCO Technology Ventures, milemark•capital, and Shin-Etsu Chemical...

CVD Equipment Corp (CVDE) of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of chemical vapor deposition, thermal processing, physical vapor transport, gas and chemical delivery control systems, and other equipment and process solutions for developing and manufacturing materials and coatings) has received an order for two PVT150 physical vapor transport systems from Stony Brook University (SBU) for their new ‘onsemi Silicon Carbide Crystal Growth Center’...

ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstaetten/Graz, Austria and Munich, Germany and Nichia Corp of Tokushima, Japan have expanded their long-standing collaboration in the field of intellectual property (IP). ams OSRAM’s CEO Aldo Kamper and Nichia’s president Hiroyoshi Ogawa signed a comprehensive cross-license agreement covering thousands of patent-protected innovations in LED and laser technologies...

The supervisory board of ams OSRAM AG of Premstaetten, Austria, and Munich, Germany has approved a new contract with chief financial officer Rainer Irle, running until 15 October 2030. The existing three-year contract would have expired on 30 June 2026...

On stand 142 at the 2025 Optica Laser Congress and Exhibition in Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic (19–23 October), photonic simulation CAD software developer Photon Design Ltd of Oxford, UK is presenting updates to three of its laser simulation tools: a quantum dot (QD) module for HAROLD; a PCSEL (photonic crystal surface-emitting laser) solution using HAROLD and OmniSim; and the PICWave photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design tool...

Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA — which provides GaNFast gallium nitride (GaN) and GeneSiC silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors — has announced progress in its development of advanced medium- and high- 800VDC voltage GaN and SiC power devices to enable the 800VDC power architecture announced by NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, for next-generation AI factory computing platforms...

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Ltd (AOS) of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (which designs and develops discrete power devices, wide-bandgap power devices, power management ICs and modules) says that it is supporting the power requirements of the 800 VDC architecture announced by NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, which is set to power the next generation of AI data centers, featuring megawatt-scale racks to meet the exponential growth of AI workloads...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and developed and previously manufactured high-power industrial blue lasers — has received a warning letter from NYSE American LLC regarding its compliance with Section 401(a) of the NYSE American Company Guide...

Power Integrations Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion) has outlined the benefits of its PowiGaN gallium nitride technology for next-generation AI data centers. The capabilities of 1250V and 1700V PowiGaN technology for 800VDC power architectures are explained in a new white paper from Power Integrations, published at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, where NVIDIA provided an update on the 800VDC architecture. Power Integrations is collaborating with NVIDIA to accelerate the transition to 800VDC power and megawatt-scale racks...

Renesas Electronics Corp of Tokyo, Japan says that it is supporting efficient power conversion and distribution for the 800V direct current power architecture announced by NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, USA, helping to fuel the next wave of smarter, faster AI infrastructure...

Silicon photonics-based chip-to-chip optical connectivity firm Ayar Labs of San Jose, CA, USA — which is pioneering co-packaged optics (CPO) for large-scale AI workloads — says that Vivek Gupta has joined as its first chief strategy officer (CSO). This comes as the industry transitions to next-generation AI architectures that demand the bandwidth, latency and efficiency benefits enabled by CPO...

POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and light sources for the hyperscale data-center, telecom and artificial intelligence (AI) markets — has closed a non-brokered financing with a single institutional investor. In a private placement, the firm issued and sold 13,636,364 common shares and one common share purchase warrant (at a combined price of US$5.50 each) for gross proceeds of US$75m, before deducting related expenses...

Due to rapidly increasing demand, particularly in the optical communications field, Tokyo-based JX Advanced Metals Corp is to make a further capital investment to increase the production of indium phosphide (InP) substrates at its Isohara Plant in Kitaibaraki City, Ibaraki Prefecture...