Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA has announced that co-founder Eric Lidow passed away on 18 January. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then part of Russia) over 100 years ago in 1912, ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, ...
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Cutting LED packaging cost drives new designs 22 Jan 2013 Optimistic sector forecast for 2013 published. LEDs are “going mainstream but are still not yet a mature commodity”, according to market analyst Yole ...
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Hitachi Ltd and Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd, have signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz University (KAU) for joint research that will focus on water quality monitoring technology developed at Hitachi's ...
Tags: seawater desalination plant, potable water, industrial water
In 2012, the number of Japan corporate bankruptcy was 12,124, a decrease of 4.7% compared with 2011, decreased for four consecutive years, a record low of recent 20 years. The liabilities totaled 38,345 billion yen, a growth of 6.7% over ...
Vacuum Expo 2012, held during Autumn at the Ricoh Arena Coventry, proved a big draw for visitors and attracted 12 new exhibitors to the biggest and best event in the series to date, according to organiser Xmark Media. Reports from the ...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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Synopsys is working with Freescale Semiconductor on verification of IP blocks for complex system-on-chip (SoC) devices. An aim of the collaboration, said the companies, is to achieve better schedule predictability and lower overall ...
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Under the framework agreement between e2v and Freescale, e2v is offering non-RoHS qualified QorIQ processors for the aerospace and defence industries which have both a demand and approval to use non-RoHS electronic components. The ...
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Today AENEAS (The Association for European Nanoelectronics Activities) which brings together European R&D players in nanoelectronics, launches its ENI2 (European Nanoelectronics Infrastructure for Innovation) initiative designed to create ...
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Many companies who manufacture electronics require contingency plans for their products. If a memory device is discontinued, we switch to a competing device. If our circuit board supplier goes bankrupt, we have an alternate vendor on speed ...
Taiwan researchers have used a self-textured oxide mask (STOM) as a template to enhance the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of nitride 380nm ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by up to 83% [Kun-Ching Shen et al, IEEE Electron ...
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The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...
The China government is likely to levy punitive tariffs on polysilicon makers from Europe, the US and South Korea in the first quarter of 2013. Recently, domestic material makers have been aiming for a price increase. Market observers ...
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China has formed a settlement of the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, northern Jiangxi and Fujian Province semiconductor lighting industry. Among them, the LED production and research and development enterprises in the Pearl River ...
Tags: China LED, LED Supply Chain