M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a new high-power gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Radar, MMIC Amplifier
Despite strong growth in the gallium arsenide device market, GaAs bulk substrate manufacturers saw both production and revenues decline for the second consecutive year, according to the Strategy Analytics Advanced Semiconductor Applications ...
At SEMICON West 2014 in San Francisco (8-10 July), CyberOptics Corp of Minneapolis, MN, USA (which provides inspection and sensing systems for electronics assembly and semiconductor process equipment) showcased its most efficient and ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has achieved record photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency of 36.7%, as measured under Concentrator Standard Testing Conditions (CSTC). This has been done by ...
Tags: PV Module, Solar Energy Systems
The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) market is increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33.1% from $501m in 2013 to nearly $2.1bn in 2018, estimates BCC Research in its report ‘Vertical-Cavity ...
Tags: VCSEL Market, laser
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Vishay Semiconductor GmbH of Heilbronn, Germany has acquired a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system (delivered at the end of March) to expand its infrared ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrate and raw materials, has appointed Gary L. Fischer as vice president & chief financial officer, responsible for the firm’s global ...
Tags: AXT, Electrical, Electronics
Beijing-based clean-energy power generating firm Hanergy Holding Group Ltd (parent of thin-film photovoltaic module maker Hanergy Solar) has completed the acquisition of Alta Devices of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2007, Alta is a ...
Tags: Alta Devices, PV, Hanergy, Electronics
Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China has selected epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA as its primary equipment provider as it enters the market to produce gallium nitride (GaN)-based ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
In the 'Global and China RF Industry Report, 2013-2014', market analayst firm Research In China notes that the biggest event in the RF industry in 2014 is RF Micro Devices' 'takeover' of Triquint Semiconductor. Triquint suffered ...
Tags: Filter, Electrical, Electronics, Mobile RF Industry
Spending on RF power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets leapt up again in 2013 to more than $1bn, according to the latest study ‘RF Power Semiconductors’ from ABI Research’s High-Power Active Devices ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA has unveiled a new line of UltraCMOS monolithic phase & amplitude controllers (MPAC) for Doherty amplifiers used in wireless base-station transmission. The company presented its devices at ...
Tags: Peregrine, Ultracmos Challenge
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has announced its entry into the monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) market. Building on ...
Tags: Microsemi MMIC, MMIC Market
The need for high-power, high-frequency transistors is increasing steadily, commensurate with the huge demand for wireless telecommunications, notes market research firm Yole Développement in its report ‘RF GaN Technology & ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced what it claims are the industry’s highest-power continuous wave (CW) RF gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) packaged in a dual-flat no-leads (DFN) format. ...
Tags: GaN Transistors, CREE