Dresden, 02 July 2026 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) opened the Smart Power Fab in Dresden several months ahead of schedule. The new plant, with an investment volume of five billion euros, is the largest single investment in Infineon's history and one of the largest investment projects in Germany, creating 1,000 new, direct jobs. The new fab doubles Infineon's manufacturing capacities at the Dresden site, thus creating the world's largest factory for intelligent power semiconductors and analog / mixed-signal technologies.

Intel this week initiated expansion of its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara, California, in a bid to produce more photomasks (reticles) in the U.S. The company intends to build a new manufacturing facility and a new utility building at the site, which will reinforce the site's position as a key producer of photomasks for Intel.

Munich, Germany – 1 July 2026 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today completed the acquisition of the non-optical analog/mixed-signal sensor portfolio from ams OSRAM Group (SIX: AMS). The transaction, announced in February 2026, has received all necessary regulatory approvals. With the acquisition, Infineon strengthens its position as a leader in sensors for industrial and automotive applications through a complementary portfolio and expands its product range in medical applications.

NVIDIA GTC Taipei—NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA RTX Spark™, a new superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents — offering a new class of computer that moves from tool to teammate.

Designed for AI, creating and gaming, RTX Spark brings together 30 years of NVIDIA innovation — including NVIDIA CUDA®, NVIDIA RTX™, DLSS, FP4, NVIDIA TensorRT™, NVIDIA OptiX™, Reflex and G-SYNC® — to slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and small, ultraefficient desktop PCs.

(June 29): South Korea is orchestrating investments of at least 1,350 trillion won (US$880 billion or $1.13 trillion) from companies including Samsung Electronics Co and SK Hynix Inc into chips and data centres, a giant outlay in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure it called essential to surviving the AI era.

SMIC, a Shanghai-based contract chipmaker, said on June 24 that it plans to acquire the remaining 49% of SMIC Northern Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (Beijing) Co. Ltd. by issuing shares, giving it full ownership of the mature-process wafer fab.

SMIC previously owned 51% of the unit. The sellers are the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, the Integrated Circuit Investment Center, Yizhuang State Investment, Beijing Industrial Investment, and Zhongguancun Development.

Chinese chip-packaging and testing giant Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET) says it will invest 7.8 billion yuan (US$1.15 billion) to build a new plant, as demand for home-grown chips continues to surge amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence. A controlled subsidiary with a registered capital of 4 billion yuan would be set up to construct an advanced packaging and testing factory in the Lin-gang Special Area in Shanghai, the company said on Wednesday.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & SAN JOSE, Calif., June 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) and Synaptics Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which onsemi has agreed to acquire Synaptics in an all-stock transaction, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $7 billion. The transaction value reflects a fixed exchange ratio of 1.350 shares of onsemi common stock for each Synaptics share and represents an approximately 19% premium to the volume weighted average closing prices of onsemi and Synaptics over the last 10 trading days.

Brewer Science, Inc., a global leader in advanced materials and processes for the fabrication of cutting-edge microdevices, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the semiconductor chemicals business line of Heraeus Epurio, a recognized technology leader in ultrapure electronic chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing. The transaction will include the Heraeus Epurio semiconductor chemicals production site in Dayton, Ohio, along with the associated sales and support personnel in Asia.

Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) announced on June 16, 2026, that it purchased semiconductor production facilities and machinery from Lam Research for NT$1.04 billion (approximately US$33 million). This transaction—effective as of May 22, 2026—is aimed at expanding the Taiwanese chipmaker's wafer production capacity.