BOSTON, June 11 - A U.S. judge on Thursday allowed an Iranian-born engineer to be released on bail just days before his trial on charges linked to a deadly drone attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan carried out by Iran-backed militants in 2024.

n Belgium, a Brussels court sentenced Belgian-Russian citizen Viktor Labin to five years in prison for the illegal export of dual-use goods and chemicals to Russia.

The memory market has always suffered highs and lows, as capex expansion, investment and demand fuelled voltatility and resulted in shortages and over-supply. Nikolaos Florous, director global marketing at Memphis Electronic told Electronics Weekly that this memory cycle is different because of AI.

The Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA) released a formal industry position paper titled “The Authorized Channel: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever,” calling on the industry to reaffirm their commitment to sourcing and selling electronic components through manufacturer-authorized channels.

Modern missiles and drones that the Russian military-industrial complex will produce in 2026 literally "from the wheels", remain critically dependent on Western dual-use microelectronics. Despite numerous sanctions packages, the Kremlin machine continues to keep its hot conveyors running thanks to extensive networks of shadow imports and gasket companies in third countries.

(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s global chip supply will fall short of AI-fueled demand for years to come, chief executive officer C.C. Wei said, suggesting production capacity remains a key bottleneck in the buildout of global computing infrastructure.

A dual U.S.-Iranian national and CEO of an Iran-based technology company was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with violating U.S. sanctions against Iran by acquiring sophisticated U.S.-origin networking, security, and encryption equipment for Iranian customers — including the Iranian regime’s nuclear and military establishments.

Hardly a week passes without news of another hyperscaler spending billions of dollars on AI chips. A single moderate-to-large data center today uses AI chips costing billions of dollars. A single Nvidia Blackwell GPU in a modern AI chip cluster could cost as much as a new Tesla Model 3.

The number of suspect counterfeit and nonconforming electronic components reported to ERAI fell 29.1% in 2025, even as global semiconductor sales climbed 25.57% on strong AI infrastructure demand. The data points to a market where high-value AI accelerators remain difficult to counterfeit, while programmable logic devices, analogue ICs and memory components continue to dominate supply chain risk.

PRESS RELEASE — The Department of Commerce today announced the signing of 9 letters of intent to provide $2.013 billion in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act.