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Rebar and concrete. Not quite the scene most imagine for integrated graphene photonics. But before the world's most precise semiconductor manufacturing equipment arrive at FabONE, a foundation that minimizes even the smallest vibrations needs to be set in place. And that's what you see: the old concrete out. Steelwork in. New concrete poured and leveled so that wafers, where graphene and photonics meet, can be produced to industry standard. Outstanding technology requires an outstanding fab, down to the last cubic meter of concrete. #FabONE #BlackSemicondcutor

Another year, another company run! This is our fifth time joining the Aachen company run, and as always, we had a great time. Our team of 20 lined up, alongside 6,000 other runners and 440 companies. Twelve of us came from a different nation than Germany, more than half the team, which is pretty much Black Semiconductor in a nutshell. Fun fact: Alexander Tumanov joined us two days before the race and jumped right in, meeting most of his colleagues for the first time mid-run. If that's not a running start, we don't know what is! And here is what our running captain Gavin Sison had to say: "The energy before and after the run is what I enjoy most, getting hyped up together, then cheering and congratulating each other at the finish. And the cheering lasted even longer this year: everyone who also ran in 2025 improved their time. Big congrats to the team, looking forward for next year!" #BlackSemiconductor #Aachen #Firmenlauf #CompanyRun

Cooling down, the Black Semiconductor way. Last Friday, we came together for our summer party. Aachen gave us 40°C, not your usual summer day here. So a last-minute idea turned into the most effective solution we could ask for: water fights. Intense battles, quick alliances, and everyone laughing together in the end. Four years ago, our first summer party had around 20 people. This year: 275. Family and friends included. Every summer, every winter, the party looks different, because every few months brings new experts, new talents, new people shaping this company. It's a bit like the World Cup but with our own twist: more than 30 nations forming one team, connecting in Aachen, working on the best kept secret in the semiconductor industry. This is the team to be on: www.blacksemi.com/career/ #BlackSemiconductor #2026

From the ground up, not retrofitted later. That's what's happening at FabONE when it comes to automation and AI integration, inside the first pilot line with integrated graphene photonics, first of its kind. But what does successful deployment actually mean inside a fab? That's one of the topics on the table at the SEMI Europe Smart Manufacturing Fireside Chat. Leading semiconductor fab managers will examine where AI is already delivering measurable impact and what it takes to scale solutions for today's most advanced fabs. Hear from our Sr. Director of Fab Automation & Integration, Samivel Krishnamoorthy who will be joining the panel with industry leaders from GlobalFoundries, Infineon Technologies, imec, STMicroelectronics, and Porsche Consulting. 📅 June 23, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CEST 🔗 Register for free: https://lnkd.in/dRUn4PmB #BlackSemiconductor #FabONE #SmartManufacturing #FabAutomation #SEMIEurope

"You are the generation that will build R2D2." "You are the generation that will cure cancer." "Help each other. Don't forget your people. This relationship can't be replaced by any AI" Last weekend, 1,960 graduates threw their hats into the air at RWTH Aachen University Aachen's Graduiertenfest, 6,530 people in a sold-out stadium, families and friends and years of late nights all coming down to one moment. Our Co-Founders, Daniel Schall and Sebastian Schall, were invited to give the keynote as the recipients of the Aachener Ingenieurpreis this year. What few in the crowd knew: Daniel once missed his own graduation. So in a way, he was finally throwing his hat too. With AI everywhere and a tough job market ahead of the new graduates, Daniel and Sebastian's message was about the power of connecting with people, friendships, and looking out for each other. The things algorithms can't build for you. To the graduates of 2026: We wish all of you the very best for what's ahead. And maybe what's ahead is with us: blacksemi.com/career #BlackSemiconductor #BlackSemi #RWTH

Five questions. 2D materials. One big idea. In our first SemiWiki CEO interview, Daniel Schall explains how to address a chip-to-chip communication bottleneck and what Black Semiconductor is building to solve it. Read the full interview on SemiWiki: https://lnkd.in/e4JCUsHx #SemiWiki #BlackSemi #BlackSemiconductor

Some stories are better seen in motion. ARTE recently visited our facility, FabONE, as part of its report on Europe’s semiconductor industry, capturing moments that are not always visible from the outside: the cleanroom, the technology, the construction site, and the ambition behind FabONE. The segment highlights three ideas that shape our path: More than catching up. Light connecting chips. Scaling European deep tech. Three ideas that define what we are building in Aachen, and why Europe’s semiconductor future depends not only on ambition, but on the ability to turn deep tech into real infrastructure. Thank you to ARTE for capturing part of this journey. Watch now in german: https://lnkd.in/eXr2NGWh Watch now in french: https://lnkd.in/ehHEmFjR

A thousand times more efficient. That's the context our CFO & Co-Founder Sebastian Schall brought on stage at #DTM2026, to lay out the potential of Black Semiconductor IGP™ technology. Chips communicate to each other today like a post system. Hundreds of GPUs writing letters, sending and waiting, sending and waiting. We replace those letters with telephone cables. An integrated graphene photonics layer could make chip-to-chip data processing 1,000 times faster. There are 18 million engineers in Europe. Each one will need AI tokens worth €100,000. For that, you would need 1,000 AI data centers. With our technology inside, you only need 20. That's 50x more tokens per unit of energy. Faster chips. Less energy. Multiplied across the full stack. It's one of many examples how we inspire the world to re-think computing. #DTM2026 #Semiconductor #BlackSemiconductor #BlackSemi

Where is computing heading next? That's exactly what our CTO Cedric Huyghebaert will be exploring on stage at The Economist AI Compute Summit, alongside Rudi De Winter (X-FAB) and Per Nyberg (ORCA Computing). Don't miss the conversation, the answer might already be closer than most think. Listen in at 12:15 / May 19 / Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel, Amsterdam Stream 1: Compute and Capability Beyond Limits: the next compute breakthrough #AIComputeSummit #EconomistImpact #BlackSemi

Construction at FabONE has begun.    What you're seeing in this video is the facility that will become the world's first 300mm 2D material semiconductor manufacturing facility. Currently empty halls, a team getting ready, and the start of something that has never been built before.    The cleanroom goes in next. Then the equipment. Then pilot production.    What this milestone means, what we're building and why, and what the timeline looks like from here. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e-2gfzfb