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Zhiting Tian, a professor in Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship Award, a selective award given annually to the top performers in the DARPA Young Faculty Award pool...

InnoScience (Suzhou) Technology Holding Co Ltd — which manufactures gallium nitride on silicon (GaN) power chips on 8” silicon wafers — says that, with large AI models and high-performance computing placing higher demands on power supply systems, it is collaborating with NVIDIA of Santa Clara, CA, USA to jointly promote the large-scale implementation of an 800VDC power architecture in AI data centers...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that the Munich District Court (Landgericht München I) has ruled in favor of it in a first instance patent infringement case alleging the unauthorized use of its patented gallium nitride (GaN) technologies by InnoScience (Suzhou) Technology Holding Co Ltd, which manufactures GaN-on-Si power chips on 8” silicon wafers...

Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA says that its GaNSense Control ICs are to power the next-generation 90W GaN charger of China’s Xiaomi...

For fiscal fourth-quarter 2025 (ended 30 May), semiconductor production test and reliability qualification equipment supplier Aehr Test Systems of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $14.1m, down 23% on $18.3m last quarter and 15% on $16.6m a year ago. Full-year revenue fell by 10.9% from $66.2m in fiscal 2024 to $59m in fiscal 2025...

For second-quarter 2025, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE in Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €137.4m, up 4.2% on €131.8m a year ago and 22% on €112.5m in Q1.2025. This is near the upper end of the guidance range of €120–140m, reflecting a strong performance in a generally soft market environment...

Indium phosphide (InP)-based optical communications device developer and manufacturer HieFo Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA (formed from management buy-out of the chips business and wafer fabrication operations of Emcore Corp in May 2024) has announced the commercial release of its new HOT25 specialty distributed feedback (DFB) laser chip, engineered specifically for optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) applications in fiber-optic test & measurement equipment. HieFo says that, like most other products in its portfolio, the OTDR product is the result of an in-house R&D project without relying on any legacy technology from Emcore...

A Mississippi State University faculty member has earned a US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to develop the next generation of energy-efficient, transparent and environmentally friendly LED lighting...