ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficiency innovations, is expanding its highly-regarded 1/3-inch 1 megapixel (MP) image sensor portfolio with early sampling of the company’s first backside illuminated (BSI) sensor technology for the ...
Soitec of Bernin, France has announced a new step in its SmartCell project by raising the record for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module solar energy conversion efficiency from 36.7% (announced in July 2014) to 38.9% Previously (last ...
China has become a world leader in high-speed railway technology with its development of a cutting-edge permanent magnet synchronous traction system that will take bullet trains to an ultrafast 500 kilometers per hour. The advanced ...
Tags: high-speed railway, CRRC Corp
German automobile major Daimler, its car-sharing services arm car2go and components maker Bosch will join hands for a pilot project, making future cars capable of maneuvering automatically in a parking garage via smartphone application. ...
Tags: Daimler, Automated Parking
Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that Xiamen Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China has purchased multiple TurboDisc EPIK 700 gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor ...
Tags: LED, MOCVD Systems
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) has kicked off the production of its redesigned 2016 Honda Pilot SUV set to hit the stores in June in the US. The new variant, which can carry up to eight passengers and flaunts a direct-injected ...
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X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany and Exagan of Grenoble and Toulouse, France have entered into a joint development agreement to industrialize Exagan's GaN-on-silicon technology, begin producing high-speed power switching ...
Guerrilla RF Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA, which provides monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) to wireless network infrastructure original equipment manufacturers, has closed a $2m Series B funding round led by two angel investors ...
Tags: MMICs, wireless network
China has become a global hub of LCD display manufacturing as domestic firms will start mass production of liquid crystal panels and overseas giants set up facilities in the country, a research firm said yesterday. The production of ...
Tags: LCD Display, LCD Panels
TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), says that its latest commercial-sized (1.09m2) copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) ...
Tags: silicon wafer, PV Module
Mitsui has partnered with Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) to explore use of carbon fiber composite materials to produce automotive parts and other industrial products. The company will work with KIT's Innovative Composite Materials ...
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Electric vehicles have been developing rapidly from the original hybrids, to parallel/serial and plug-in hybrids through the optimization of power drive designs. Since then, the industry has been able to develop all-electric models as the ...
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Global Trends, Audi
Hong Kong-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy Ltd (SFCE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to acquire a 51% ownership stake in Lattice Power Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to have been the first company to realise ...
Tags: silicon LEDs, LED lighting
InnoLight Technology Corp of Suzhou, China, which designs and makes optical transceivers for the cloud computing market, has released its full family of 100G QSFP28 and 100G CFP4 transceivers. As data-center traffic is expected to triple ...
Tags: optical transceivers, cloud computing market, transceivers