PsiQuantum and AMD are expanding their partnership to develop infrastructure for utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers and hybrid systems combining quantum, high-performance, and AI computing. The agreement includes AMD processors, GPUs, software, and an equity investment, with potential applications in drug discovery and other industries worldwide as systems scale globally.

Special Melted Products, a UK subsidiary of Taiwan-based wire, cable, and stainless steel manufacturer Walsin Lihwa, is partnering with National Taiwan University (NTU) and the University of Sheffield to establish an advanced international research center. The initiative will combine Sheffield's traditional steelmaking base with strengths in heterogeneous integration and compound semiconductors, targeting the aerospace and defense industries as key commercial outlets.

Is Nvidia's moat still intact? A slide in Anthropic's IPO filing has quickly sparked industry debate after revealing that Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model spent only about three days exploring how to run inference for another AI model on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Instinct MI355X GPUs.

For generations, Sheffield's industrial identity has been forged in steel. Yet behind that familiar legacy, a less visible technological transformation has been unfolding for decades.

Imagine a maintenance robot operating inside a fusion reactor, exposed to temperatures reaching 600 degrees Celsius and intense radiation, with an expected service life of 25 years. Developing electronics capable of surviving such conditions would be an extraordinary engineering achievement. But manufacturing the chips is only half the problem.

Samsung Electronics is expanding its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) packaging operations in South Korea as its Cheonan campus runs short of space, prompting the company to develop nearby Onyang into another major production base for advanced AI memory.

AI has propelled the global semiconductor market to record highs, but growth remains concentrated in memory, advanced logic and advanced packaging, areas in which Europe has limited strength. At this week's SEMICON Europa forum in Munich, SEMI and TechInsights identified power semiconductors as Europe's strongest entry point into the AI data centre boom.

Inside a refurbished industrial building in Sheffield, a quantum computing laboratory is preparing for a future that could transform how the world develops medicines, advanced materials, and computing infrastructure.

A network of companies tied to Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese intelligence operative involved in a romantic relationship with former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, recently invested in Chinese AI powerhouse DeepSeek to help secure a steady supply of banned Nvidia Blackwell chips, according to reports and corporate records referenced by The Information.

In a business incubator at County Durham's NETPark, the future of Britain's semiconductor industry was being discussed by people whose technologies rarely feature in global chipmaking headlines. Some develop radiation detectors for medical imaging; others design high-frequency chips for aerospace systems or electronics capable of surviving conditions where conventional silicon fails.

Malaysia is reviewing possible breaches of AI chip export restrictions involving Speedmatrix, a local subsidiary of Singapore-based Megaspeed International, while preparing legislation to tighten oversight of data centers and prevent advanced Nvidia GPUs from being diverted to China.