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Artificial intelligence (AI) interconnect technology company Palomino Laboratories Inc of Goleta, CA, USA has shipped its first micro-LED light engine prototypes to its first hyperscaler customer. Furthermore, the customer completed its evaluation and provided Palomino with test measurement results confirming that the measured micro-LED bandwidth exceeded Palomino’s initial design targets...

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany is now actively recruiting for a variety of roles at the new facility that it is building in Penang, Malaysia...

Volta Metals Ltd of Toronto, Canada (which owns, has optioned and is currently exploring a critical minerals portfolio of rare-earths, gallium, lithium, cesium and tantalum projects in Ontario) has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with RZJ Capital Management LLC to acquire — for $1m in cash plus 10 million common shares at a deemed price of $0.20 per share — the remaining 20% interest in the Springer Rare Earth Element (REE) and Gallium Deposit, which spans 4750-hectares on the traditional territory of the Nipissing First Nations in Sturgeon Falls, about 70km east of Sudbury, Ontario...

AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA — which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials at plants in China — has appointed Jia-Bin Duh to its board, increasing the number of directors to six...

For first-half 2026, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system maker Riber S.A. of Bezons, France has reported revenue of €12.8m, up 19% on €10.7m in first-half 2025...

Singapore-based fabless silicon photonics company SILITH Technology has announced the first mass-production wafer delivery of photonic ICs from the Singapore fab of foundry United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) of Hsinchu, Taiwan, advancing the partnership between the two companies to scale next-generation silicon photonics manufacturing...

In booth B03 (Hall 16) at Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion, Renewable Energy and Energy Management (PCIM Asia 2026) in Shenzhen, China (26–28 August), 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 showcasing its newest-generation GaN technology, demonstrating how its Gen7 GaN platform enables compact, high-performance power architectures for intelligent motion control and AI power delivery. The latest generation of eGaN devices combines ultra-low on-resistance, low switching losses and high-frequency operation to simplify system integration while improving efficiency, dynamic response, and thermal performance...

Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that vertically integrated gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based quantum dot (QD) diode laser developer and manufacturer Innolume GmbH of Dortmund, Germany has purchased a GEN2000 molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system to expand production for next-generation optical transceivers and silicon photonics applications. The investment supports the increasing demand for optical connectivity solutions for hyperscale AI infrastructure and cloud data centers...

Electrification and automation technology provider ABB of Zurich, Switzerland is acquiring Advantics of Saint-Genis-Pouilly, France, which provides silicon carbide-based power conversion solutions (integrating hardware, firmware and software to optimize performance across demanding applications including data centers, industrial microgrids, power generation and EV infrastructure)...

Epiwafer and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that greater-than-expected trading in first-half 2026, with strong demand across all core segments, should yield revenue of at least £64m...

For coverage of all the key business and technology developments in compound semiconductors and advanced silicon materials and devices over the last month...

Researchers at Jilin University in China have reported a significant enhancement in the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) mobility of nitrogen-polar (N-polar) GaN/AlGaN heterostructures grown on silicon carbide (SiC) substrates by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA (a dual-use defense & security integrated platform company) has closed its best-efforts public offering, generating gross proceeds of about $38m, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA (a dual-use defense & security integrated platform company focused on non-kinetic effects and directed-energy technologies, electronic warfare and defense mobility programs, software-orchestrated defense systems and advanced manufacturing) has announced initial results from a laser dazzler counter-UAS test campaign conducted at the facilities of Tekne S.p.A. in Italy...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA (a dual-use defense & security integrated platform company focused on non-kinetic effects and directed-energy technologies, electronic warfare and defense mobility programs, software-orchestrated defense systems and advanced manufacturing) has announced a proposed best-efforts public offering of up to $38m of its securities...

For its fiscal third-quarter 2026 (to end-May), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $9.07m, up from $1.06m last quarter, due to the increase of buy-sell purchase orders of equipment...

The US Department of War’s Economic Defense Unit (EDU), in partnership with the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSW(A&S)), has awarded $25m through the Industrial Base Fund to American Resources Corp to expand capacity at the Marion Advanced Technology Center refining campus in Indiana of its affiliated minority holding ReElement Technologies Corp (a refiner of rare-earth elements and other defense-critical minerals)...

Following a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) signed in December 2024, Germany-based tier-1 automotive supplier Bosch has announced a definitive agreement with the Trump Administration for up to $225m in direct funding from the US Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Program Office to support the up to $2bn that Bosch is investing to transform its fabrication plant in Roseville, California — acquired as silicon-based application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) foundry TSI Semiconductors in August 2023 — for the production and testing of silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors. The Roseville facility has nearly 40 years of experience in the production of semiconductors for automotive and industrial applications, which it will now apply to the production of SiC chips...

BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia — which develops and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) visible laser diodes based on its proprietary low-temperature, low-hydrogen remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology — has secured a AUS$1.4m (US$1m) commitment from Uviquity of Raleigh, NC, USA (a venture-backed start-up pioneering wide-bandgap integrated photonics) for Phase II of its joint development agreement (JDA)...

WeEn Semiconductors of Shanghai, China — a joint venture company formed by NXP Semiconductors and Beijing JianGuang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital) in 2015 that develops and manufactures bipolar power semiconductor products — has launched a new family of AC–DC and DC–DC silicon carbide (SiC) power modules to target the growing range of solid-state transformer (SST) applications, as well as electric vehicle (EV) super-chargers and smart-grid/renewable applications...