After a successful 2013, the market for RF power semiconductors for wireless infrastructure blew off the chart in 2014, according to a new report from market analyst firm ABI Research. The Asia-Pacific region, and China specifically, ...
S3 Group of Dublin, Ireland (an independent supplier of RF and mixed-signal IP and tailored silicon solutions to service operators, OEMs and semiconductor vendors) has made available what is claimed to be the first fully integrated, ...
Tags: RFIC, Single-Conversion Radio
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) system maker Park Systems Corp of Suwon, South Korea has launched NX-Hivac, which is claimed to be the only high-vacuum AFM system on the market that meets the current and future needs for failure analysis in ...
Tags: AFM, Park Systems
Although wireless backhaul radio quantities will grow slowly to about 1.7 million units in 2019, price erosion will cause the corresponding RF component revenue in the segment to decline at a compound average growth rate (CAGR) of minus 2% ...
Tags: RF component, Electronics
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced a definitive agreement to sell its solar system business - including all technology assets and ...
Tags: Soitec, Core Semiconductor
Taiwanese semiconductor company United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has introduced UMC Auto technology platform for the IC companies involved in designing chips for automotive applications. The new platform consists of a range of ...
Tags: semiconductor, UMC Auto technology
Packaged LED lighting revenue reached $6.6bn in 2014, with about 70% of that generated by sales of mid- to low-power LEDs, according to the latest data in the 'Packaged LED Report 2015' (part of IHS LED Intelligence Service). The share ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Packaged LED
Avago Technologies Ltd (a supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for wireless, wireline, storage and industrial applications) has launched the ALM-2203 miniature highly integrated low-noise amplifier (LNA)-filter RFIC module, ...
Tags: LNA-Filter Module, Car Radio
Packaged LED lighting revenues reached US$6.6 billion in 2014, with roughly 70% revenue generated from mid- to low-power LEDs, according to IHS. The chip-on-board (COB) share was only 8%, despite the fact that only a small number of ...
Tags: Packaged LED, LED Lighting
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany and Exagan of Grenoble and Toulouse, France have entered into a joint development agreement to industrialize Exagan's GaN-on-silicon technology, begin producing high-speed power switching ...
RF power transistors supplier Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, TX, USA has launched two ultra-wideband RF power gallium nitride (GaN) transistors in new plastic packages. "The industry-leading bandwidth of these two products will enable ...
Tags: GaN Transistors, Plastic Packages
For its fiscal second-quarter 2015 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA (which provides compound semiconductor-based components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics market) has reported revenue of ...
Tags: fiber-optics, Emcore
In booth #1348 at the 2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium & Exhibition (IMS 2015) in Phoenix, Arizona (17-22 May), Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated ...
Tags: Microsemi, Microwave Devices
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched its fourth generation of gallium nitride on ...
Tags: GaN Technology, silicon carbide
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK is participating in a £9.5m government initiative to modernize the UK energy infrastructure to cope with the unprecedented change in energy consumption, generation and distribution. UK ...