The top three foundries are in the world top ten semiconductor companies ranked by first half sales, says IC Insights. TSMC's capacity utilization rate in 2Q12 was 102% (exceeding 100% because of the way the company defines its ...
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At a hearing held in Windsor, Ontario on September 12, 2011, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved a settlement of the class action Court File No. CV-08-11573 (Windsor) in respect of Construction Flat Glass against the defendants ...
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Power Integrations has issued reference designs for high-efficiency mains PSUs that fit within LED replacements for T8 fluorescent tubes. Both are based around LNK460KG from the firm's LinkSwitch-PL chip family. "The designs feature low ...
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UK LED lighting firm Marl International has finished the £100,000 first phase of project Sparkle: feature lighting at the Alnwick Garden visitor attraction in Northumberland. "The Alnwick Garden was designed 17 years ago with ...
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San Jose-based printed solar cell make Nanosolar has seen power from its largest solar photovoltaic (PV) installation to date, a 10.63MW project in the Valencia town of Alfarrasi. “Natural conditions in the Valencia region are ...
Industrial LCDs are to benefit from consumer and automotive display developments as Japan Display (JDI) subsidiary Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics (KOE) gets the keys to its parent's technology chest. JDI was formed last year from the small ...
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Soon you could have access to secret information just by waving your hand. New digital signage allows you to decode invisible images by quickly moving your fingers in front of the screen. The system, developed by Hirotsugu Yamamoto and ...
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Technology Editor Steve Bush, looks at the latest LED products hitting the market from Cree, Lumileds, Seoul Semiconductor, Osram, Nichia, and Sharp. All the major LED suppliers have released additional lighting-class LEDs over the ...
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With all this economic gloom inevitably affecting business confidence in the industry, a small device, no bigger that five inches square, lifted my spirits. I might just have seen a dot of light at the end of the tunnel. The device in ...
Phil Gee, vice president of EMEA sales at component distributor Nu Horizons, talks to Electronics Weekly about the European components market and the economic slowdown, the most promising geographic markets, rising fuel costs and Chinese ...
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Power Integrations has introduced a range of single-chip mains LED drivers for loads between 2.5 and 50W with +/-5% current regulation. Called LYTSwitch, the devices can be wired for isolated and non-isolated operation. "LYTSwitch ...
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Epson has announced a controller-driver module for flexible E Ink-style displays based around Plastic Logic's organic thin-film transistor (TFT) arrays. Except for TFT gate drivers, the module (S1D13541) combines the blocks needed to ...
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Were we not promised super-thin bendable, flexible and rollable organic LED (OLED) displays? Phones like Samsung's Galaxy and HTC's Desire have shown us that the rigid versions can deliver stunning images. So where are those flexies? It ...
Canadian dairy firm Saputo has signed a deal to acquire the Morningstar business of Dean Foods. The US$1.45bn deal will be financed through a newly-committed bank loan, Saputo said today (3 December). The acquisition will help expand the ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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