Semiconductor sustainability shifts to cost control as fab resource demand surges

Sustainability is not just good for communities and the environment but also good for business. This is the message from a sustainability summit that took place at SEMICON Taiwan this week, with water management and equipment providers seeking to link water recycling, tool upgrades, and efficiency-improving automation to measurable cost savings.

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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs unveils Atlas world model for 3D AI and robotics

World Labs, the startup founded by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled Atlas, a multimodal world model designed to generate, reconstruct, and simulate three-dimensional environments from text, images, and video. The launch marks a shift from conventional generative AI toward systems that reason about geometry, camera position, depth, and spatial relationships.

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Taiwan LED packaging provider Ligitek pivots to silicon photonics; 1.6T modules eye 2H27 revenue

Ligitek is accelerating its move from LED packaging into silicon photonics (SiPh) and high-speed optical communications, with 1.6T product samples already tested and volume-production equipment due from late 2026 through the first quarter of 2027. Chairman I-hsin Tung said recent optical throughput tests exceeded industry benchmarks, with revenue contribution expected in the second half of 2027.

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