(NASDAQ, OCT. 13) Western Digital announced the opening of its expanded System Integration and Test (SIT) Lab , a state-of-the-art 25,600 square foot facility designed to accelerate customer success and unlock faster time to value. As AI applications drive unprecedented storage demands, the new lab directly addresses what customers need most: faster, more predictable qualification of Western Digital’s reliable high-capacity HDDs (See link for details). www.nasdaq.com/press-r

A tungsten breakthrough could finally make next-gen memory a reality (TECHSPOT, Oct 14) researchers in Taiwan and the United States have solved a materials stability problem that has kept spin-orbit torque magnetic random-access memory (SOT-MRAM) from moving beyond the lab and into commercial production. The breakthrough centers on stabilizing the β-phase of tungsten (β-W), a highly conductive material essential for generating the spin currents required in SOT-MRAM devices, e

(NANI Oct. 14) During the SEMICON West conference SEMI released its latest forecast for 12-inch wafer fab equipment spending - projecting global expenditures of $374 billion between 2026 and 2028 reflecting the ongoing wafer fab regionalization and soaring AI chip demand although there is some concern over a potential AI chip market bubble that could reduce demand and slow US fab progress. On the dark side - funding @ the national labs carrying out basic semiconductor resear

(NANI Oct. 9) SEMICON West 2025 was held in Phoenix* at the Phoenix convention center for the first time from October 6th through the 9th. Over 1,500 exhibiting companies exhibited, reflecting a 45% increase in exhibitors while the number of conference attendees ~doubled compared to 2024. According to Joe Stockunas, president of SEMI Americas, 2025 was the largest SEMICON West held in 18 years. SEMICON West 2026, to be held Oct. 13–15th, is returning to the Moscone Center in

The Phoenix location gets my vote for all future conferences: Easy to get around Low cost Relaxed ambiance, so If you're in the vicinity...

If you are attending and/or planning to attend Semicon 2025 you are invited to visit booth 6268 to learn about the latest develpments in...

(ENGtechnica, Oct. 2nd) Quintauris and Everspin Technologies have announced a collaboration to integrate advanced memory solutions into...

Gilles Lambinet and Daniel Montag will be on site to discuss Hprobe’s magnetic Automated Test Equipment (ATE) solutions, addressing the...

Gilles Lambinet and Daniel Montag will be manning Booth #6268, in conjunction with MRSI Systems, to discuss Hprobe’s magnetic Automated...

( Businesswire.com , Oct. 1st) Quintauris, the company founded as a single source to enable compatible RISC-V–based products, and...