Silicon Motion is launching its SM8008, a PCIe Gen5 x4 NVMe (non-volatile memory express) enterprise SSD controller, designed for datacentre boot drives and power-sensitive enterprise storage ...

Imec leads SPINS consortium for quantum pilot line SPINS (Semiconductor Pilot line for Industrial Quantum NanoSystems) has been launched; it is one of the six European quantum ...

There have been 80,117 tech layoffs worldwide since the start of the year, says a report from Trading Platforms. Of these, 28,390 roles, roughly 35% of the global total, came from technology companies ...

Gartner forecasts semiconductor revenue will grow 64% in 2026, with memory revenue expected to increase threefold amid memflation (see Table 1). Gartner analysts said that memflation is profound, but ...

ULTRARAM is based on III–V compound semiconductor heterostructures and leverages resonant tunnelling to enable ultra-low energy switching and long data retention, positioning it as a candidate for ...

Farnell’s Top Tech Voices podcast continues its second season with two new episodes exploring how neuroscience, AI and health technology are reshaping the way people think, behave and live.

Amazon is considering entering the semiconductor merchant market. The company would be the fourth biggest chip company in the ...

According to NASA, the most distant human-made object is Voyager 1. Launched in 1977, it was approximately 25.4 billion km from Earth as of April 7th. Its twin, Voyager 2, was about 21.36 billion km ...

Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (AKM) and Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, have achieved laser oscillation ...

What caught our eye this last week? There’s secure optical comms across the River Clyde using PCSEL (photonic crystal surface emitting lasers), Elon Musk’s bid to float SpaceX and become the first ...

SiFive has raised $400m in a Series G financing round to accelerate its datacentre efforts. Investors were Atreides Management, Apollo Global Management, Nvidia, Point72, Turion and T Rowe Price ...

OpenAI says it is pausing its Stargate datacentre project in the UK. “We see huge potential for the UK’s AI future,” says OpenAI, “AI compute is foundational to that goal — we continue to explore ...