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AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA — which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials at plants in China — says that, in connection with its underwritten public offering of 8,560,311 shares of common stock (completed on 22 April), the underwriters have exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 1,284,046 shares at a price of $64.25, yielding additional gross proceeds of about $82.5m, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses...

Deepak Shankar, founder of Mirabilis Design and developer of VisualSim Architect platform for chip and system designs, has created this cartoon for electronics design engineers.

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Aeluma Inc of Goleta, CA, USA — which develops compound semiconductor materials on large-diameter substrates — has been awarded more than $4m in contracts from the US Government to accelerate scaling of its semiconductor heterogeneous integration platform for quantum and high-speed datacom applications...

Aeluma Inc of Goleta, CA, USA — which develops compound semiconductor materials on large-diameter substrates — has received an award from US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance its integrated quantum dot laser platform for datacom and sensing applications...

Semiconductor materials and technology licensing company Atomera Inc of Los Gatos, CA, USA has expanded its collaboration with Synopsys Inc of Mountain View, CA, USA ― which provides electronic design automation (EDA) software, semiconductor IP and services for chip and electronic system design ― to advance gallium nitride (GaN) device modeling for radio frequency (RF) and power semiconductor applications. The work builds on their long-standing relationship around Synopsys’ Sentaurus TCAD and Atomera’s MSTcad toolset and extends the collaboration into GaN workflows to support bringing higher-quality GaN solutions to market...