When it comes to pricing and market expectations, 2015 was another tough competitive year for packaged LED vendors, with challenges in both backlighting and lighting, comments Jamie Fox (principal analyst for Lighting and LEDs at IHS ...
Tags: LED market, Packaged Led Maker, Samsung
CVD Equipment Corp of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of chemical vapor deposition, gas control, and other equipment for developing and manufacturing materials and coatings) has announced the next phase in its industrial ...
Rearchers in China claim the first radio frequency (RF) switch device based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs)-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) technology [Zhou Jiahui et al, J. Semicond. 2016, vol37, ...
Tags: InGaAs MOSFET RF switch
Market sectors encompassing telecommunications, consumer electronics, innovative energy applications in transportation, electricity generation and other market sectors are increasingly valuing power semiconductor devices as usage of these ...
Tags: AC driver, railway applications, high power
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched the UltraCMOS PE42723, an RF switch with what is claimed ...
Tags: Peregrine, SOI, RF switches
Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Investment Co Ltd (PDSTI) and its affiliate have agreed to invest about $5m in GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for ...
Tags: GigOptix
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has launched a complete chipset portfolio for 28Gbps- and 100Gbps-based solutions for ...
Tags: GigOptix
Eulitha AG of Würenlingen, Switzerland (a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen that offers nano-lithographic equipment and services for photonics and optoelectronic applications) says that one of its PhableR 100 ...
Tags: Eulitha, Nanopatterning HB-LEDs
POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical devices on a single ...
WIN Semiconductors Corp of Tao Yuan City, Taiwan – the largest pure-play provider of compound semiconductor wafer foundry services – has announced its entry into the high-data-rate optical device market by adding optical device ...
Tags: WIN Semiconductors, InP
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced new radio-frequency silicon solutions, further ...
Tags: Wireless Devices, semiconductor
Nanoelec Research Technological Institute (IRT) in Grenoble, France - an R&D consortium headed by CEA-Leti focused on information and communication technologies (ICT) using micro- and nanoelectronics - has announced the first co-integration ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, Direct wafer bonding
Kulicke & Soffa Industries has launched new FCC Hub Blades, extending the successful AccuPlus series. The new FCC Hub Blades offer a customizable solution for flip chip, wafer level packaging (WLP) and thick wafer dicing with improved ...
Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched its first products, which are claimed to be the industry's first gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs. Navitas was founded in 2013, and in 2014 investment firm MalibuIQ licensed the ...
Tags: GaN, Power electronics
Matheson Tri-Gas Inc of Basking Ridge, NJ, USA, together with its parent company Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp (TNSC) of Tokyo, Japan, says that the Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at the University of California, Santa ...
Tags: Matheson, Taiyo Nippon Sanso, MOCVD, UVC LEDs