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December 16, 2025
AAC Clyde Space secures ESA funding to develop Sirius EDGE on board computer

London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
AAC Clyde Space has received SEK 4.7 million from the ESA Phi-Lab Sweden programme to develop the foundation for its next-generation Sirius EDGE on-board computer platform for small satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles. The work will be carried out at AAC Clyde Space in Uppsala together with subsidiary Spacemetric in Sollentuna and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The project builds on the company's flight-proven Sirius computer family and will result in a laboratory demonstrator f ... read more
Taiwan to keep production of 'most advanced' chips at home: deputy FM
Taipei (AFP) Dec 11, 2025
Taiwan plans to keep making the "most advanced" chips on home soil and remain "indispensable" to the global semiconductor industry, the deputy foreign minister told AFP, despite intense Chinese military pressure. ... more
New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
MIT researchers have developed a new fabrication method that could enable the production of more energy efficient electronics by stacking multiple functional components on top of one existing circui ... more
Nanoscience breakthrough puts low-cost, printable electronics on the horizon
London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Imagine wearable health sensors, smart packaging, flexible displays, or disposable IoT controllers all manufactured like printed newspapers. The same technology could underpin communication circuits ... more
Quantum hardware roadmap highlights scaling hurdles on path to everyday applications
Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article in Science argues that the field now stands at a turning point - one that is similar to the early computi ... more
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The US-China chip war in dates
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2025
As President Donald Trump says the United States has agreed that chip giant Nvidia can sell AI semiconductors to China, AFP runs down the tussle over the key tech: ... more
Trump says US will allow sale of Nvidia AI chips to China
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 9, 2025
President Donald Trump said Monday he had reached an agreement with President Xi Jinping to allow US chip giant Nvidia to export advanced artificial intelligence chips to China. ... more
Shares in Chinese Nvidia challenger surge on debut
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 5, 2025
Faith in the future of China's homegrown AI chip industry sent shares in semiconductor company Moore Threads rocketing more than 500 percent on its market debut Friday, having raised $1.1 billion in its initial public offering. ... more
Amazon unveils new AI chip in battle against Nvidia
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Dec 2, 2025
Amazon Web Services launched its in-house-built Trainium3 AI chip on Tuesday, marking a significant push to compete with Nvidia in the lucrative market for artificial intelligence computing power. ... more
Single-photon switch could enable photonic computing
West Lafayette, IN (SPX) Nov 21, 2025
There are few technologies more fundamental to modern life than the ability to control light with precision. From fiber-optic communications to quantum sensors, the manipulation of photons underpins ... more
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Adaptive photonic circuits enable quantum neural network breakthroughs
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2025
Researchers have shown that light-based quantum processors can be made to function more like neural networks by employing a straightforward adaptive method. Their latest study describes a controlled ... more
Japan's Rapidus plans second cutting-edge chip plant: reports
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 26, 2025
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to start building a second factory to produce cutting-edge semiconductors in a race with Taiwanese industry leader TSMC, local media reports said. ... more
Gold electron spins mapped in full resolve decades-old surface debate
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 24, 2025
Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science have addressed a 20-year controversy regarding the electron spin direction on gold surfaces. Their team employed a Photoelectron Momentum Microscop ... more
Johns Hopkins team breaks through quantum noise
Laurel, MD (SPX) Nov 24, 2025
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have achieved a breakthrough in quantum noise characterization in q ... more
AI-driven optical chip achieves real time tensor operations for next gen intelligence systems
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2025
Researchers at Aalto University have demonstrated single-shot tensor computing using light, enabling computational speeds that surpass traditional electronic approaches. Tensor processing supp ... more
New class of soft materials process logic using beams of light

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2025
Researchers from McMaster University and the University of Pittsburgh have created the first functionally complete NAND gate in a soft material using beams of visible light. Published in Nature Communications, the work establishes a major contribution to the concept of materials that compute, where the material itself processes information without conventional electronic circuits. Fariha Mahmood, the paper's first author and a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge, recounted, "To see these material ... read more
Circuits Integrated selects UK Space South Central cluster for 3D satellite chipset expansion
London, UK (SPX) Nov 20, 2025
Greek semiconductor design firm Circuits Integrated has joined the UK's Space South Central cluster, initiating its first UK office at Surrey Research Park to enhance the development of advanced chi ... more

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Memory chip crunch set to drive up smartphone prices
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 20, 2025
Shoppers could face higher prices for phones, laptops and other gadgets next year, manufacturers and analysts warn, as AI data centres hoover up memory chips used in consumer electronics. ... more
Nvidia reports 'off the charts' demand for AI chips
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Nov 20, 2025
Nvidia shares climbed Wednesday after it beat quarterly earnings expectations on fierce demand for its sophisticated chips that power artificial intelligence. ... more
Four arrested in US in scheme to smuggle AI chips to China
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2025
Two Chinese nationals and two Americans have been arrested for allegedly illegally exporting cutting-edge Nvidia chips with AI applications to China, the Justice Department said Thursday. ... more
China, Netherlands move to resolve Nexperia chip row
The Hague (AFP) Nov 19, 2025
The Netherlands said Wednesday it had suspended its proposed takeover of Chinese-owned chip maker Nexperia in a sign of "good will", a move China welcomed as a positive "first step". ... more
Zinc oxide device achieves electric control of triple quantum dots for quantum computing
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 15, 2025
Researchers at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University have electrically controlled triple quantum dots in a zinc oxide semiconductor, marking a step toward quantum inform ... more
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