For fiscal first-quarter 2019 (ended 30 June 2018), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $692.7m, up 4.1% on $665.4m ...
Tags: Qorvo, Mobile Demand
For fiscal third-quarter 2018 (to end June), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – ...
Tags: indium phosphide, optical chip
Two teams at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA are being funded to investigate the use of gallium nitride (GaN) to enhance space exploration. Engineer Jean-Marie ...
Tags: GaN transistors, GaN Crystal
On 10 August, a jury of six men and six women rendered a verdict in favor of LED maker Lumileds LLC of San Jose, CA, USA, finding that a Chinese competitor stole trade secrets related to Lumileds core technology for making high-power LEDs ...
Tags: LED, LED technology
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) is proposing to offer an additional $100m of its 5.50% senior notes (due 2026) to qualified ...
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Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns has announced that the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult – Wales’ first and the UK’s newest Catapult – will open its Innovation Centre, based in South East Wales, ...
South Korean UV LED maker Seoul Viosys Co Ltd has launched the UV WICOP module, which combines Seoul Semiconductor’s WICOP LEDs with compact and high-efficiency technology. Designed using a single chip and phosphor only (without any ...
Tags: UV WICOP module, LED
For second-quarter 2018, POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada and San Jose, CA, USA — a designer and manufacturer of optoelectronic devices, including light sources, passive waveguides and photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for ...
Tags: photonic product, POET
PowerSphyr Inc of Danville, CA, USA – which delivers end-to-end wireless power charging solutions – and GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (a fabless developer of gallium nitride-based power switching semiconductors for ...
Murata company pSemi Corp of San Diego, CA, USA (formerly Peregrine Semiconductor Corp) – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has introduced what it clams is ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has priced its offering of an additional $130m of its 5.50% senior notes (due 2026) at 101% of par ...
Tags: Qorvo, RF solutions
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a subsidiary of Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd of Beijing, China since 2014) says that its solar cells have powered a CubeSat mission by Twiggs Space Lab LLC (TSL), NearSpace Launch Inc (NSL) and their ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which makes analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has signed a definitive agreement to buy private fabless semiconductor supplier Avnera Corp of Beaverton, OR, USA, a developer of analog system ...
Tags: analog, semiconductors
For second-quarter 2018, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $157.8m, down slightly on $158.6m last quarter but up 40.6% on $112.2m a year ago. ...
The global micro-LED market will grow from $2.7bn in 2019 to $10.7bn in 2022, forecasts analyst firm n-tech Research in its report ‘Micro-LED Market Opportunities: 2018-2027’. Micro-LEDs have superior performance qualities to ...
Tags: LED market, LED, Advanced Displays