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Chip Industry Week In Review
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- Nvidia faces questions about security and oversight; 300mm SiC breakthrough; Siemens buys Lauterbach; chiplet standards; new memory bets;…
- The post appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .
- November 13th, 2026 - By: The SE Staff Innovations A wave of announcements this week, including several from SEMICON Europa and electroni…
- Manufacturing and test Infineon reported an industry-first milestone in 300mm silicon carbide manufacturing , fabricating functional powe…
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According to public reporting via Semiconductor Engineering, nvidia faces questions about security and oversight; 300mm SiC breakthrough; Siemens buys Lauterbach; chiplet standards; new memory bets; imec interposer process flow; TPUs with CPUs; 2D transistors; anti-smuggling tools for chips.
In related context, the post appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering . November 13th, 2026 - By: The SE Staff Innovations A wave of announcements this week, including several from SEMICON Europa and electronica 2026 in Munich, highlighted advances in semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, automotive chips, and AI hardware. Manufacturing and test Infineon reported an industry-first milestone in 300mm silicon carbide manufacturing , fabricating functional power devices at its Villach, Austria fab using existing silicon processing equipment.
Reporting also notes that the larger wafers can accommodate 2.3 times as many chips as 200mm wafers, potentially lowering manufacturing costs for automotive, industrial, and AI data center power devices. imec completed baseline process flows for its NanoIC silicon-interposer platform , including TSVs and multiple routing layers for chiplet and 3D integration. A silicon-interposer PDK is planned for early 2027. Chips and systems AMD introduced its 6th-gen EPYC server and embedded processors, including models for semiconductor ATE; an AI GPU with 288GB of HBM4; and tamper-resistant FPGAs for security-critical systems. Arm introduced the Cortex-M42 processor to bring ML and DSP capabilities to cost- and area-constrained intelligent endpoints in a compact, AHB-based design.
Points still worth watching: Google added two new 8th-gen TPU systems : TPU 8i Max for massive context windows and higher rack compute density, and TPU 8tx for secure and confidential inference. TPU 8tx pairs Google accelerators with AMD EPYC CPU hosts. This Silicon News Wire item is a paraphrased brief; full wording remains on the origin page.
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