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NWO has expressed “deep disappointment” over the cancellation of NWO Perspectief, a long-standing program that funds interdisciplinary consortia working on early-stage technologies with clear application potential.

The planned acquisition of Lumileds by China’s San’an Optoelectronics has collapsed after US authorities flagged unresolved national security risks.

The business case for a back-end fab in the Netherlands is uncertain and the risks are real. Yet, initiatives with intrinsic potential to strengthen the vitality of Europe’s chip ecosystem shouldn’t be dismissed too easily.

The question for most organizations isn’t whether to engage with agentic AI but how quickly and how deliberately.

Dutch back-end semiconductor experts are exploring the idea of establishing an independent assembly and test facility for panel-level packaging. The concept was recently presented at a meeting in Nieuwspoort in The Hague.

Photon Bridge and Phix have announced a partnership to accelerate the development and volume production of DWDM external laser source modules for AI data centers.

TSMC is steering its 2026 capital expenditure toward the upper end of its earlier guidance of 52-56 billion dollars, which was already a massive hike compared to last year.

Alixlabs has closed a 15-million-euro Series A round, backed by a strategic investment from Finnish firm Stephen Industries.

ASML could have used its considerable financial firepower to avoid the reputational damage of a mass layoff.

ASML now expects 2026 revenue between 36 billion and 40 billion euros, driven in part by higher-than-expected demand for immersion tools and continued EUV shipments.