Speaking at a press conference with Taiwanese media at Semicon Taiwan on Sept. 2, 2015, Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura shared his observations on lighting technology trends and commented on Taiwanese LED manufacturers situation. Nakamura ...
Equipment spending by semiconductor chip manufacturers, a key industrial market for vendors of both lithography and laser-based wafer processing systems, will reach $32 billion in 2010 – more than double the 2009 figure. ...
Tags: semiconductor, chip, LED fab
At the Semicon West 2015 event in San Francisco, CA, USA, Thermco Systems (a division of Tetreon Technologies Ltd of Washington, West Sussex, UK that designs and manufactures furnace systems, custom wet benches and chemical handling ...
In booth 4168, Hall 4, at SEMICON Japan 2014 in Tokyo (3-5 December), Nanometrics Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (a supplier of process control metrology and inspection systems) is launching its latest photoluminescence (PL) system, Imperia, for ...
Tags: Imperia Pl System, Manufacturing, Electrical
Orbotech has completed the acquisition of SPTS Technologies Group which works in the areas of advanced packaging and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The company said that the acquisition of SPTS would help them as the latter is a ...
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 ...
Wet-chemical equipment maker ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA has launched its Solstice line of electroplating tools, designed specifically for the smaller-substrate users in emerging technologies such as MEMS, LEDs, power devices, ...
At the SEMICON West 2014 trade show in San Francisco (8-10 July), process control and yield management solutions provider KLA-Tencor Corp of Milpitas, CA, USA launched four new systems - the 2920 Series, Puma 9850, Surfscan SP5 and eDR-7110 ...
Tags: KLA-Tencor, IC Technologies
FinScale Inc of Livermore, CA, USA, which develops and licenses device and process innovations for the semiconductor industry, has announced availability of its qFinFET technology, a next-generation 3D MOSFET architecture and manufacturable ...
MicroSense LLC of Lowell, MA, USA, which supplies dimensional non-contact wafer metrology equipment for manufacturing silicon, compound semiconductor and power devices as well as magnetic metrology systems for MRAM (magnetoresistive ...
Tags: LED, LED Chip, LED component
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) says that, at SEMICON China ...
Tags: LED drivers, high voltage, high power
Taiwanese package manufacturer Harvatek operational performance strengthened during the second half of 2013. The company hopes profit gain in 3Q13 will carry on into 4Q13, said Billy Wang, Chairman of Harvatek. The company hopes to maintain ...
Tags: Harvatek, Billy Wang, profit, profitable performance
EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has introduced the EVG®720 automated UV nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) system. Providing full-field ...
EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), nanotechnology and semiconductor applications, has launched the EVG 720 automated ultraviolet ...
Tags: electrical, LED, EVG
The advancement in LED wafer and packaging technology and continual decrease in price is the driver for the upcoming lighting era. Philip SSL Fellow George Craford pointed out that LED packaging component prices have been dropping following ...
Tags: LED wafer, Philips Lighting