News from November 2026

Mark Rushworth is CEO of the all-optical network switch company, Finchetto, a photonics startup developing fully optical network switching technology for AI and hyperscale data centers.

He specializes in integrated photonics and optical networking, with a focus on reducing the power consumption and latency of modern computing… Read More The post CEO Interview with Mark Rushworth of Finchetto appeared first on SemiWiki.

The NVIDIA Board is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of ...

Lawmakers want to question Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang following reports about his relationship with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset.

Albert Liu founded Kneron in 2015 with a mission to bring on-device Edge AI and machine learning to mass-market devices and usher in the age of AI everywhere. His vision for Kneron is to realize the Edge AI Net, democratizing AI by moving inferencing away from the centralized cloud “brain” and onto devices everywhere.

Liu previously… Read More The post CEO Interview with Albert Liu of Kneron appeared first on SemiWiki.

This 200mm single-crystal diamond wafer is designed to efficiently remove heat and prevent hotspots from forming on AI processors.

On this day in 2006, Nvidia released the legendary GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card and it is celebrating the event with a very demanding (but free) interactive Steam demo.

Linux developers are preparing to make Intel’s ancient MultiMedia eXtensions irrelevant, with the last MMX code now set to be removed from the kernel.

JUN YUAN BIO ◆Engineer for chip design, simulation, and P&R at AMD; Senior Engineer for chip verification (emulation, equivalence checking, formal verification) at Motorola since 1992. ◆Held R&D​ and technical management roles in formal verification EDA​ at Verplex, Jasper, and Cadence​ since 2003. ◆Founded Arcas-tech… Read More The post CEO Interview with Jun Yuan of Arcas-Tech appeared first on SemiWiki.

The offices for New Matrix and Maginfra, both approved to receive H200 chips, appear abandoned, and people in the buildings say they're unfamiliar with the companies or have never seen anyone working there.

A new open-source GitHub project called gputaskman has been released by Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman.

Pratap Ranade is CEO and Co-Founder of Arena Physica. Pratap first trained as a physicist at Stanford and Columbia before joining McKinsey as an Associate Partner advising tech and semiconductor companies.

He then founded Kimono Labs, backed by Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and Y-Combinator, which was acquired by Palantir. There,… Read More The post CEO Interview with Pratap Ranade of Arena Physica appeared first on SemiWiki.

A Reddit homelab user ran Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 CPU-only on Optane PMem 200 at 0.85 tokens/s with a 1-bit quant.

CPU-Z data reveals PC memory capacity is dropping for the first time ever. Driven by skyrocketing AI DRAM prices, 64GB RAM adoption plummeted 18% YoY.

Inside the astonishing hardware behind World of Warcraft: Forever. 251TB of RAM and 70K cores kept millions of players online without a hitch.

A midterm election that put data centers on the ballot, followed by one of the sharpest two-day market swings in recent memory, changed the AI conversation this week, even as earnings from AMD, Arm, Lattice, and Coherent pointed to demand that hasn't slowed.

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack what the election results could mean for the AI buildout, why the market reacted the way it did, and what the week's earnings actually showed. The handpicked topics for this week are: Data Centers L…

Best Buy knocks $500 off the iBUYPOWER Slate, bringing this RTX 5060-powered gaming desktop down to $899 with a Ryzen 5 processor, 16GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB SSD

Dave Wehner, Meta’s chief strategy officer, is leaving the company to become CFO of Fireworks, the AI infrastructure startup valued at $17.5 billion in July.

We check out the ASRock Rack DMRD16-2L+ which is a 16-channel Intel Diamond Rapids Xeon motherboard with 128x PCIe Gen6 lanes over MCIO The post ASRock Rack DMRD16-2L+ Spotted with 16 DDR5 Slots for Diamond Rapids appeared first on ServeTheHome.

The TeamGroup GA Pro mostly misses. Decent QD8 and steady-state writes can’t make up for weak overall performance, poor efficiency, and high temps.

U.S. intelligence sources suggest that Nvidia chief Jensen Huang was targeted by Chinese intelligence in a 'honeypot' operation involving Megaspeed executive Alice Huang.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer disclosed new AI-linked stock purchases months after voting for a congressional trading ban, as Democrats prepare to regulate the industry.

Nvidia reportedly asks TSMC to produce '3D DRAM' to address memory shortages.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang officially called to Congress due to reports of Chinese plot — officials mention growing concerns over national security

SPHM/SEHM Series consolidates circuit protection, load switching and real-time monitoring in a single networked COTS module HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensitron Semiconductor, a U.S.-based manufacturer of high-reliability power electronics, today announced the SPHM/SEHM...

CoreWeave and Nebius earnings, alongside key inflation reports that could shape the Fed's next interest rate decision, are the focus.

Late October was busy for Altera. On October 21, the same day as NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin keynote, the company launched QuartusIQ, an AI companion for its FPGA design software.

One week later, at its Innovators Day event in San Jose, it introduced Agilex 2X, its next-generation FPGA portfolio. When you look at these announcements together, […] The post Altera’s Strategy: QuartusIQ and Agilex 2X appeared first on Moor Insights & Strategy.

Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient

Daniel is joined by Oliver Jones, CEO of Aion Silicon, a global semiconductor design and engineering company delivering custom silicon solutions for the AI age. He leads the company’s strategy and growth as it continuously helps technology companies bring advanced SoC designs to market from architecture through production,… Read More

Will a quantum computer break blockchain cryptography in just two years' time? The post The Countdown to Q-Day Has Begun appeared first on EE Times.

Executives of major tech companies are largely projecting optimism about continued growth in the artificial intelligence sector despite a post-midterm sell-off.

AWS Data Exports for Cost and Usage Report (CUR) 2.0 and AWS Cost Explorer now amortize the upfront fee for Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML across the duration of each reservation.

You can see the amortized cost of each instance launched into a Capacity Block and the amortized cost of unused capacity, so you can attribute your upfront fee to the workloads that used it and identify capacity that went unused. Previously, a Capacity Block's upfront fee appeared as a single charge on the purchase…

ChipNexus has introduced its NEX Analog Agent, bringing conversational automation to analog engineering workflows built around Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre simulation and Siemens Calibre physical verification.

Available now, the software operates with customers’ installed tools, licenses and process design kits, giving… Read More The post ChipNexus Brings Agentic AI into Established Analog Design Flows appeared first on SemiWiki.

ALTOPASCIO, Italy — Nov. 9, 2026 — Cosmic Group will participate in SEMICON Europa 2026 in Munich, held concurrently with electronica from Nov. 10 to 13, 2026. Cosmic will be located at booth C1255.

Rooted in the tradition of technological innovation “Made in Europe,” the group aligns perfectly with this year’s event focus: “Europe’s Next […] The post Cosmic at SEMICON Europa 2026: Advancing High-Complexity Semiconductor Test Solutions appeared first on EE Times.

Co-design platform for quantum error correction melds IBM quantum kit with AMD CPUs and GPUs

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4M machine series in Google Compute Engine, available as both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances.

We built Z4M to provide storage for AI/ML training and inference workloads such as checkpointing, distributed key-value (KV) cache and parallel file systems — workloads that handle huge data volumes and require massive parallel data processing, as well as high storage and networking throug…

Avnet Silica has expanded Teltonika Networks distribution through an EMEA-wide master agreement covering industrial connectivity equipment across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The agreement includes industrial modems, routers, gateways and Ethernet switches, as well as the manufacturer’s Remote Management System (RMS) for monitoring and managing deployed devices. The agreement, announced on 26 October 2026, […] The post Avnet Silica expands Teltonika Networks distribution in EMEA appeared…

Eulitha AG today announced deliveries of multiple automated tools to foundries for the production of InP DFB lasers to be used in AI data centers. The post Eulitha Ramps Up Deliveries of Advanced Lithography Systems appeared first on Semiconductor Digest.

Micron Technology, Inc. today announced that Linnie M. Haynesworth has informed the Company that she will retire from its board of directors at the annual shareholders meeting expected to be held on January 14, 2027. The post Micron Announces Board of Directors Retirement appeared first on Semiconductor Digest.

Voters across the country on Tuesday voiced their support for candidates who have pledged to place restrictions on data center development.

Conductor: the person who keeps every section of the orchestra in time without playing an instrument. In this article, it’s your operating model.

In Part 1, I wrote about the score, your designed workflows across the three layers Gene Kim and Steven Spear describe in Wiring the Winning Organization: the technical work, … Read More The post Delivering Silicon Systems Through AI Disruption, Part 2: The Conductor appeared first on SemiWiki.

In this episode of In the Arena, host Allyson Klein sits down with Jim Sherhart, VP of Products and Solutions at WEKA, to unpack the launch of NeuralMesh 6, WEKA’s biggest software release to date, and WEKApod 3, the company's first purpose-built hardware.

The conversation digs into the shift from GPU scarcity to GPU efficiency, why inference workloads behave nothing like training, and how WEKA’s augmented memory grid pushes up to 7x more tokens through the same GPUs. Jim also explains why a so…

In this episode of Data Insights, TechArena's Allyson Klein and Solidigm's Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Priya Sawant, SVP of Engineering at ASAPP, to explore what it takes to build AI automation products that enterprise customers can trust.

Priya leads engineering at a company whose AI agents power contact centers at scale, and her perspective cuts across two simultaneous shifts: the tools her engineers use every day are changing, and what they are building with those tools is changing just …

A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating next-generation 6G network development.

Together, they give researchers a foundation for testing ideas, comparing results and building on each other’s work — connecting simulation and AI training with experiments on real over-the-air wireless […]

Breakthrough culminates 25 years of scientific pursuit and establishes a new scale for single-crystal diamond SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Diamond Foundry Inc. today announced a major milestone in the history of materials technology: the creation of the first-ever D200mm...

Silanna's 12- to 16-bit converters deliver sampling rates up to 250 Msps in BGA packages designed to save board space. The post Silanna Targets Edge AI with High-Performance Compact ADCs appeared first on Power Electronics News.

The protesters stormed over the walls and took over the construction site, with the Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition saying that more actions are planned across Europe.

GlobalFoundries reveals new details about its FDX Fusion technology, which promises 7nm-class performance and 8nm-class logic density using planar FD-SOI transistors without EUV lithography, shares what is next for FDX Fusion node, and the FDX program in general.

The market for wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.9% from $10.14bn in 2025 to a projected $11.24bn by 2026, driven mainly by increasing demand for power electronics with enhanced efficiency, wider use of silicon carbide (SiC) materials, growing requirements for semiconductor devices capable of operating at high temperatures, the need for higher breakdown voltages, and the expansion of gallium nitride (GaN) device fabrication,…

Guerrilla RF Inc (GRF) of Greensboro, NC, USA — which provides radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) for wireless applications — has appointed David Bell as chairman of its board of directors, separating the chairman and chief executive officer roles as part of the company’s continued enhancement of its corporate governance.

Bell, who has served as an independent director since October 2021, succeeds CEO Ryan Pratt as chairman. Pratt wi…

From High Bandwidth Flash to external LPDDR5X modules, vendors are looking beyond HBM.