Here are the top ten semiconductor CEOs in 2025: C C Wei Jensen Huang Lisa Su Hock Tan Rick Tsai Noh-Jung Kwak.      Jochen Hanebeck Matt Murphy Haijun Zhao …

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ChipX Global, a compound semiconductor startup founded in 2023 and headquartered in in Dublin, is said to be going to build an 8” fab in Malaysia. Founded by Chinmoy Baruah …

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Avnet has conducted a survey on AI adoption and the experience of those who have installed AI models. Engineers reported a step up in shipping AI-enabled products (56% vs. 42% …

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On Boxing Day, China declared its $14.3 billion National Startup Investment Guidance Fund plus three regional funds in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area, …

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“TSMC’s 2nm (N2) technology has started volume production in 4Q25 as planned,” says a notice on TSMC’s web-site, “N2 technology features first-generation nanosheet transistor technology, with full-node strides in performance …

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Octopus Energy, the biggest UK oil and gas supplier, has lined up investors for its software unit called Kraken at a valuation of $8.65 billion.  Investors include D1 Capital Partners, …

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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs) and increased size for OpenSearch UI metadata. Amazon OpenSearch UI is a managed service for dashboarding and operational analytics that provides a unified view across multiple data sources, including OpenSearch domains and collections, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Security Lake.

You can now create new OpenSearch UI applications with metadata encrypted with your own CMKs, helping organizations meet regulatory and compliance requirements. This launch also increases the metadata size limit for saved objects in OpenSearch UI, enabling you to create and store complex queries, extensive visualizations, and large-scale dashboards.

CMK support and increased metadata size are available in all regions that OpenSearch UI is available . Learn more at Amazon OpenSearch UI Developer Guide .

Amazon Connect dashboards now support filtering metrics based on custom business dimensions such as business divisions, product lines, or customer segments. Using predefined attributes, you can create business dimensions to filter metrics helping you customize the dashboards based on your unique business need. For example, if your queue handles contacts across product lines, you can filter metrics by product line to compare handle times and determine where agents need product training.

Amazon Connect dashboards are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about dashboards, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide . To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website .

While the tech moguls urge the US government to pull out all the stops to win the AI race with China, one voice is saying slow down the AI development …

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