When people think about wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials for power electronics applications, they usually think of gallium nitride (GaN) or silicon carbide (SiC) – which is not surprising, since SiC and GaN are currently the ...
Tags: Power Electronics, semiconductor, LED
“The (Chinese) LED industry is in deep waters, and only a few manufacturers will survive in the next few years,” said several industry insiders during recent interviews with LEDinside’s editorial team in China. With the ...
Tags: LED industry, Chinese LED market
BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that one of its key specialized epitaxy customers has committed to an order for about $300,000 of foundry development, to be delivered over the next six months. The customer is developing a ...
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For first-half 2015, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported unaudited results in line with expectations and its July trading update. Revenue was £53.2m, down 11% on £60m in second-half ...
Technology engineering & licensing firm ALLOS Semiconductors GmbH of Dresden, Germany have concluded its joint project to establish its mature 150 and 200mm gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology at Epistar Corp of Hsinchu ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Azzurro GaN-on-Si, Epistar LEDs
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA and Taiwan's Epistar Corp (the world's largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for LED chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and ...
Tags: LED chips, LED lighting
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has concluded the renegotiation of a long-term supply contract with an existing tier-1 customer for the supply of wafer products used in wireless applications. The new ...
Tags: wireless applications, long-term customer relationship, Electrical
The board of directors of Hsinchu-based Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry) has approved the sale of its stake in TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL). Taiwan’s Epistar Corp ...
Tags: LED lighting products, Electrical
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has received a new purchase order for indium phosphide (InP) materials worth $3.25m from a leading global substrate manufacturer. Produced by IQE’s Wafer Technology ...
Tags: Wafer Technology, Electrical
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, has announced the sale of the gallium arsenide (GaAs) epitaxy business of its Soitec Specialty Electronics ...
Tags: sale of GaAs, IntelliEPI, Electronics
LED maker Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China plans to issue 6.07 million stocks to raise a total of RMB800m ($130.39m) in financing in order to expand its production of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED epitaxial wafers, according to ...
Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) is to issue 174.612 million new shares (worth NT$10 each, totalling NT$1746.12m) to acquire fellow Taiwanese LED epiwafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc ...
Tags: LED epiwafers, LED chips
LED chips are a core component in the LED industry. There are currently many domestic and international LED chip manufacturers in China, but there currently are no categorization standards, according to a report by Chinese-language ...
Tags: LED Industry, LED Chips
GaN-on-Si technology has emerged naturally as an alternative to GaN-on-sapphire — the mainstream technology for LED applications. But today, despite potential cost benefits, the mass adoption of GaN-on-Si technology for LED ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics
Gallium nitride (GaN)-on-sapphire is the existing mainstream technology for LED manufacturing, but GaN-on-silicon technology has naturally appeared as an alternative to sapphire in order to reduce cost. However, a cost simulation by market ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN power electronics, LED