Foundry

Why Consumer Electronics Will Continue to Lead the Edge AI Chip Market

Latency, energy, privacy. By shifting AI computation from the cloud to the edge, these issues can be alleviated. 2025 was a breakout year for many AI applications, with consumer electronics leading the way in revenue due to the trend to towards AI smartphones and PCs, and rising costs of chips manufactured on leading process nodes.

FormFactor KK

FormFactor is an international supplier of semiconductor test equipment. This profile focuses on their Japanese division's activity in supplying test equipment for quantum chips.

UMC

UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) is a semiconductor foundry and the second largest in Taiwan. UMC provides 12-inch and 8-inch wafer foundry services, with process technology nodes ranging from 12nm to 0.6μm.

GCS Holdings

GCS Holdings specializes in the R&D, manufacturing, and sales of compound semiconductor wafers, primarily GaAs, InP, and GaN, for high-end RF and optoelectronic components.

VisEra

VisEra Technologies operates as a specialty foundry focused on wafer-level optical component manufacturing and process integration for image sensors and micro-optical devices.

Multi-Billion $ Market at the Intersection of Materials & Quantum Tech

This article highlights the materials opportunities across quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communications, dividing them into three materials platforms: superconducting chips, photonics (including PICs), and nanomaterials.

Asahi Diamond Industrial Co. Ltd.

Asahi Diamond Industrial Co. Ltd. is a long-standing Japanese diamond tools manufacturer, serving the semiconductor, automotive and industrial sectors.

Ligentec

Ligentec is a Franco-Swiss foundry developing silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs).

PhotonixFAB Consortium

PhotonixFAB Consortium is a European industry consortium aimed at generating a domestic production ecosystem for PICs (photonic integrated circuits).

Photarix

Photarix are a spinout from the University of Lancaster (UK) commercialising a GaAs-based single photon source for quantum communications applications.

Duality Quantum Photonics

Duality Quantum Photonics are a UK-based thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) foundry offering design and fabrication services.

Wave Photonics

Wave Photonics is a provider of process design kits (PDKs) and other design, testing, and packaging services for photonics, especially for the quantum industry.

Orange Quantum Systems

Orange Quantum Systems is developing machines for the automated testing of quantum chips.

QuantWare

QuantWare is a spinout of QuTech, TU Delft, offering QPUs as well as components and foundry services for superconducting qubit quantum computing.