Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2.2 percent year over year to $295 billion in 2012, according to the latest version of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF). The industry witnessed ...
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Dual-colour lasers could pave way for more energy efficient LED lighting Researchers in the US have come up with a new semiconductor device that is capable of emitting two distinct colours and could potentially open up the possibility of ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) says that Fumihide ‘Humi’ Esaka will join the firm as its new CEO, starting 1 July. Transphorm reckons that ...
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Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA has qualified and shipped product built on its gallium nitride (GaN)-based power device technology platform for a home theater system manufactured by ...
A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using LEDs universally for cheap and efficient lighting. The ...
Tags: LED Dual-color Lasers, LED Lightin, LED
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that a leading US wireless compound semiconductor device manufacturer has placed follow-on orders for Plasma-Therm VERSALINE wafer processing, etch modules. The ...
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Back-end segment and the wafer-level packaging (WLP)-related segments ruled the semiconductor market during the year Global semiconductor capex on manufacturing equipment declined 16.1% during 2012 to $37.8bn compared to 2011, according ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that its UltraCMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer and prescaler ...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
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MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and Sidense Corp., a developer of logic non-volatile memory one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores today ...
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South Korea's Hongik University has developed a nitride semiconductor device on silicon with an embedded Schottky barrier diode (SBD) [Bong-Ryeol Park et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p031001, 2013]. The device was designed as a ...
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South Korea's Hongik University has developed a nitride semiconductor device on silicon with an embedded Schottky barrier diode (SBD) [Bong-Ryeol Park et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p031001, 2013]. The device was designed as a ...
Tags: Diode, semiconductor device, semiconductor
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT – says that it has achieved Milestone 4 ...
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Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA is to showcase its latest power management solutions at the Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2013) at Long Beach Convention ...
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT – says that its board of directors has ...