Annual Global IC Fabs And Facilities Report


Semiconductor companies announced a significant number of facilities in 2025 as global onshoring efforts continued across manufacturing, materials, packaging, design, and R&D. Investments came from both industry and government sources. Organizations worked together to solve current technology challenges, including soaring demand for AI chips and advanced memory, as well as complex applic... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Samsung and SK hynix joined OpenAI's Stargate initiative to ensure there will be enough memory chips to meet the needs of AI data centers. The goal is to produce up to 900,000 DRAM wafer starts per month. OpenAI also inked agreements to explore the development of next-gen data centers in Korea. Axcelis Technologies (ion implantation systems) will merge with Veeco Instruments (compound semic... » read more

Demonstrating A 2D–0D Hybrid Optical Multi-Level Memory Device Operated By Laser Pulses


A technical paper titled “Probing Optical Multi-Level Memory Effects in Single Core–Shell Quantum Dots and Application Through 2D-0D Hybrid Inverters” was published by researchers at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea University, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), National Institute for Materials Science (Japan), and University of Science and... » read more