In an unaudited trading update for 2014, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that it expects full-year revenue to be about £112m (down 11.7% on £126.8m in 2013, but in line with expectations). ...
Smart Lighting Simply Connected at CES 2015 In the past years, lighting has solidified its position as cornerstone of the smart home. With Philips Hue, OSRAM Lightify and GE Link, consumers experience increasing freedom of choice. The ...
Visteon is planning to unveil cloud based technology for connected vehicle as well as vehicle cockpit concepts and autonomous driving simulations technology at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The company is planning to present ...
Tags: Cloud-based technology, driving simulations technology, Auto
Visteon will showcase advanced technology in three different passenger cars to demonstrate how it can increase a vehicle's value throughout its lifecycle by reducing warranty costs and enhancing the driving experience. Demonstrations will ...
St. Jude Medical and Volcano Corp. have apparently decided to stand down when it comes to lawsuits related to technologies including tunable lasers used in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems. The two companies have agreed ...
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for wireless connectivity and cellular mobility, is unveiling a family of Nano RF products code named Nucleus. The ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA has unveiled a new line of UltraCMOS monolithic phase & amplitude controllers (MPAC) for Doherty amplifiers used in wireless base-station transmission. The company presented its devices at ...
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The smart lighting industry involves the use of lighting control systems that deliver correct amount of light when needed. It deals with the technology where lights can automatically perform various operations at set times or under set ...
Tags: Smart Lighting, LED
Sony Corp will reduce by about three-quarters the number of its parts suppliers to speed up development of its electronic products, the Nikkei reported on Thursday. Sony, which currently has about 1,000 suppliers, plans to reduce the ...
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Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced a global distribution agreement with Nordic Semiconductor, a leading provider ...
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A tiny personal computer that is worn on the ear and can be controlled with the blink of an eye or the click of a tongue is being tested in Japan. The 17-gram (0.59-ounce) wireless device has bluetooth capability and is equipped with a ...
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IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
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Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest LED chipmaker) says that lots of forward-looking technologies have been developed and now applied to LED chip production, such as novel transparent conductive thin film, compound mirror structures, and a ...
At the 2014 International CES, NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) is demonstrating a wireless smart lighting network designed for ease of installation in the home. The demo includes an energy harvesting switch (battery-less, no wires) ...
Tags: Wireless Lighting, Lights