In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has filed a new lawsuit in US District Court alleging the infringement of Peregrine ...
Tags: Peregrine, RFMD, Peregrine's HaRP invention
For 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported record full-year revenue of £88m, consisting of £69m (79%) from Wireless, £18m (20%) from Photonics, and £0.95m (1%) from ...
Tags: IQE, Electrical, Electronics
TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) announced today that its laboratory was accredited as a LM-80 qualified lab by Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF). At the same time, all of its LED product series have been tested in the lab and will ...
Tags: Solid State Lighting, Lighting, LED product
Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will be highlighted at SEMICON West 2013, along with product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components and ...
At the SEMICON China show in Shanghai next week (19-21 March), Shanghai-based dielectric and through-silicon via (TSV) etch tool supplier Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc (AMEC) is making its solid-state lighting (SSL) market debut ...
Tags: MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
Fab equipment spending for Front End facilities is expected to be flat in 2013, remaining around $31.7 billion, increasing to $39.3 billion in 2014 — a 24% increase. The SEMI World Fab Forecast also reveals that in 2013 increases for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced this week that it has developed a prototype multi-wire electrical discharge processing technology to cut very hard four inch square polycrystalline silicon carbide (SiC) ingots into 40 pieces at ...
Asset advisory and auction services firm Heritage Global Partners (HGP, a subsidiary of Counsel RB Capital) and equipment auction and valuation firm The Branford Group have announced a global webcast auction of late-model silicon carbide ...
Tags: SiC manufacturing, test equipment, semiconductor manufacturing
AIXTRON SE has been awarded the 2013 Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Award for its latest development, the AIX G5+ reactor for gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si). The Award recognizes key areas of innovation surrounding the chip ...
Recently, market rumors have stated that Taiwan-based solar firm Motech may experience changes at the executive level because the firm's biggest shareholder, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), may sell its shares once the ...
Tags: TSMC, solar firm, Motech
TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), has announced confirmation by both TUV SUD and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) ...
Tags: TSMC Solar, TUV SUD, UL, photovoltaic module
TSMC Solar, the solar subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has announced that by using in-house equipment, the firm's monolithic CIGS solar modules have achieved a conversion efficiency of 15.1%. According to ...
Tags: TSMC Solar, solar subsidiary, TSMC, CIGS solar modules
The MicroLEDs semiconductor manufacturing process includes construction of a parabolic reflector to enable optimal light control and high efficiency from micro-meter-sized LEDs. InfiniLED has announced new output-power achievements from ...
Toshiba and US-based Bridgelux will reportedly start volume production of 8-inch Si-substrate GaN wafers for use to make LED chips in the first quarter of 2013, according to Taiwan-based makers. However, president Jacob Tam for TSMC Solid ...