D&R News Alert
February 2nd, 2026


Welcome to the issue of February 2nd, 2026 of D&R SoC News Alert, our email update to provide you with the latest news and information in the System-On-Chip Community.

Foundry News
■ Samsung Foundry Reportedly Expects 30%+ 2nm Order Growth in 2026; 1.4nm Set for 2029
Chiplets
■ How Chiplets will Accelerate Storage
Design Platforms and Services
■ Keysight’s Machine Learning Toolkit to Speed Device Modeling and PDK Dev
■ Indian Chip Design Services Provider Mirafra Tapes Out 22-nm SoC
RISC-V
■ MIPS accelerates the development timeline of the RISC-V NPU S8200, integrating Synopsys ARC IP to transform into a "physical AI" computing platform
Memory Subsystem
■ Arasan announces the immediate availability of the industries first xSPI NOR + eMMC NAND Combo PHY IP
Interface IP
■ Qualitas Semiconductor Secures Strategic IP Licensing Agreement for MIPI Solutions
Artificial Intelligence
■ The Rise of Physical AI: When Intelligence Enters the Real World - by CEVA
■ Synopsys and AMD Honored by World Economic Forum for Generative and Agentic AI Vision, Leadership, and Impact
Automotive
■ Simulation as a Safety Backbone for Embodied AI in Autonomous Driving - by Vayavya Labs
■ De-risking the Start of Production for Automotive SoCs
■ Sensor fusion in action: How cameras and LiDAR integrate with radar for safer driving
Space
■ NanoXplore and STMicroelectronics deliver European FPGA for space missions
Internet of Things
■ Microservice Store Launches EU CRA and UK PSTI Autonomous Compliance Solution for IoT
Photonics
■ Scintil Photonics, Presto Engineering and CEA-Leti Receive Bpifrance Grant for the CanopAI Project to Advance Photonic Integration for AI and Data Centers
■ Microphotonics meets microelectronics: Atomic layer processing for silicon carbide-based quantum photonic circuits
Business News
■ A new era for European semiconductors begins in Grenoble
■ Semiconductor industry starting to show signs of recovery
■ Two Semiconductor Fab Projects Abruptly Halted?
■ UMC expects revenue to outpace market growth






Synopsys MIPI C-PHY v2.0 D-PHY v2.1 TX for TSMC N6
• Compliant with the latest MIPI C-PHY and D-PHY specifications
• Fully verified IP available in TX, RX, or master and slave configuration, including all analog and digital circuitry

What they said at
IP-SoC EU 25

Hardware-Rooted Security - How to Protect Already-Deployed Devices against Reverse Engineering & Firmware Cloning
Ruud Derwig;Marc Fyrbiak, Synopsys, Inc.;Emproof

Post-quantum Algorithms MS-KEM and MS-DSA Protected Against Physical Attacks, in Hardware and in Software
Yaacov Belenky, Chief Innovation Officer, FortifyIQ, Inc.

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Urgent Action Required by Chip Makers
Lamyae Lahlou, Product Line Manager Security IP, Kudelski Labs

JPEG XS TDC: Enabling Pristine Wireless Video with Ultra-Low Latency and Minimal Power
Catherine Stroobants, Market Lead for Prosumer and Consumer Electronics Solutions, intoPIX

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