Semiconductors and Chips

New Products

Cadence and NVIDIA Collaborate on Accelerated Engineering Solutions for Agentic AI Chip and System Design

ELE Times News - March 25, 2026

Cadence announced an expansion of its broad collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate Cadence’s Design for AI and AI for Design strategy. The next generation of agentic AI...

New Products

Renesas Launches First Bidirectional 650V-Class GaN Switch For Multiple Uses

ELE Times News - March 24, 2026

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, unveiled the industry’s first bidirectional switch using depletion-mode (d-mode) GaN technology, capable of blocking...

Semiconductors and Chips

Thermal Management in 3D-IC: Modelling Hotspots, Materials, & Cooling Strategies

ELE Times Research Desk - March 18, 2026

Courtesy: Cadence As three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D-IC) technology becomes the architectural backbone of AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and advanced edge systems, thermal management has shifted...

Semiconductors and Chips

CEA-Leti and NcodiN Collaborate on 300 mm Silicon Photonics for Bandwidth-Consuming AI Interconnects

ELE Times News - March 12, 2026

CEA-Leti and NcodiN, a French deep-tech startup pioneering nanolaser-enabled photonic interconnects, announced a strategic collaboration to industrialise NcodiN’s optical interposer technology on a 300...

Automotive

NXP CoreRide Puts Automakers on Fast Path to 48 V Scalable Zonal Architectures

ELE Times News - March 11, 2026

NXP Semiconductors introduced its NXP CoreRide Z248 zonal reference system - the semiconductor industry’s first pre-validated, design-ready zonal foundation that combines advanced 48 V...

Automotive

Designing LIDAR on a Chip: A Multiphysics Simulation Workflow for Integrated Photonics

ELE Times Research Desk - March 9, 2026

Courtesy: Keysight Introduction LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has become a cornerstone technology for autonomous vehicles, enabling high-resolution spatial mapping and object detection. As the industry...

Automotive

From 10 to 1000 TOPS: Why Automotive Chips Need a New Architecture

Kumar Harshit - March 9, 2026

Speaking at the Auto EV Tech Vision Summit 2025, Namrta Sharma, Technical Director at Aritrak Technologies, highlighted how chiplet architectures are emerging as a...

Aerospace and Defence

New LX4580 – Highly Integrated 24‑Channel Mixed‑Signal IC for Aviation & Defence Actuation Systems

ELE Times News - March 6, 2026

Microchip Technology announces the LX4580, a 24‑channel mixed‑signal IC designed to streamline high‑reliability actuation control systems for aviation and defence applications. The LX4580 is highly...

Semiconductors and Chips

Top Seven Tech Trends in the semiconductor sector for 2026

ELE Times Research Desk - February 23, 2026

By: STMicroelectronics In 2026, a new class of intelligent machines will emerge. Several of the trends we’ve identified are natural extensions of those we highlighted...

Artificial Intelligence

The Rise of the AgentEngineer: How AI is Orchestrating the Future of Chip Design

ELE Times Research Desk - February 18, 2026

While traditional Electronic Design Automation tools have been faithfully executing commands for decades, today's agentic AI systems are rewriting the rulebook by thinking, iterating,...

Artificial Intelligence

Manufacturing Breakthroughs in Chip Packaging Are Powering AI’s Future

ELE Times Research Desk - February 17, 2026

Courtesy: Lam Research With all the attention being given to AI, it’s easy to overlook some of the core technologies enabling its capabilities. Sure, a...

Innovations

3 semicon-enabled innovations impacting our experience of the world

ELE Times Research Desk - February 10, 2026

Courtesy: Texas Instruments The chips that power today's smartphones contain over 15 billion transistors; the semiconductors powering data centres can have hundreds of billions of...

Aerospace and Defence

Silicon Shield: Role of Semiconductors in Modern Warfare

ELE Times Research Desk - February 5, 2026

Courtesy: Orbit & Skyline War has always been part of human history, and true global peace still seems far away. While modern wars may look...

Artificial Intelligence

Edge AI Chipsets: How On-Device Intelligence Is Reshaping Embedded System Design

Prof. Nitin Wankhede - January 14, 2026

The cloud-first model for embedded systems is becoming a legacy architecture. We’re moving away from simply piping data to remote servers and instead shifting...

Fundamentals