The market for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) was $611.3m in 2014 and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.99% from 2015 to $2105.3m in 2020, according to the report ‘VCSEL Market: ...
Tags: VCSELs, Electrical, Electronics
For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (ended 1 November 2015), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $321.1m, up 8% on $297m a year ago and up 2.3% on $314m last ...
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Integrated Device Technology, today completed the acquisition of privately held ZMDI (Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG) for $307 million. conditioning solutions.Announced six weeks ago, the acquisition brings to IDT a highly regarded ...
Tags: Integrated Device Technology, conditioning solutions, Auto
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has completed its acquisition of Japan-based FiBest ...
Tags: M/A-COM, optical networking components, semiconductors
Cadence Design Systems Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has collaborated with Lumerical Solutions Inc of Vancouver, BC, Canada and PhoeniX B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands to jointly develop an integrated electronic/photonic design automation ...
Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $25m in a round of growth funding. Founded in 2001 by Dr Shimon Eckhouse and professor Shlomo Rushin of the School ...
Tags: Colorchip, Optical transceivers, PICs
For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (ended 3 October 2015), Qorvo Inc, which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has reported revenue of $708.3m, up 5.2% on $673.6m last ...
Tags: Qorvo, RFMD, TriQuint Semiconductor, Mobile Products
Investment in 100G optical communications systems worldwide during 2013 was “breathtaking”, according to a new market report published today by Infonetics Research. Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for optical at the company ...
In the optical communications markets, demand for 40G transceivers is now “ramping up hard” as data centers deploy 40GbE (Ethernet), particularly as a high-density 10G interface via breakout cables. Also, 40G QSFP (quad small ...
Tags: optical communications markets, transceiver, single-mode fiber
On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries announced conclusion of their negotiations. The summary of the TPP Agreement is as follows: Disclaimer: The Following Summary of the Trans-Pacific ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) says that - in booth #536 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) in Valencia, Spain (27 September - 1 ...
Tags: Oclaro, QSFP28, modulated laser, transceiver
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has published a handbook, 'DC-DC ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is sampling a 100G QSFP28 client-side transceiver that meets both the CWDM4 MSA and CLR4 Alliance optical interface ...
Tags: Oclaro, QSFP28, transceiver
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...
Tags: SiC Power Electronics, packaging
Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) – which was spun off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 – has announced a range of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors and power electronic circuits targeted at cutting energy ...