For second-quarter 2015, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has reported a fifth consecutive quarterly revenue increase, ...
Russia-based Internet service providers, along with growing demand for hardware used in data centers, have resumed placement of orders with Taiwan-based PC and server vendors/makers, according to these vendors/makers. The Russia market ...
Imec of Leuven, Belgium and its partners have completed a three-year program (2012-2015) to leverage a variety of silicon photonics technologies by making them accessible for industry and academia worldwide. Within the ESSenTIAL program ...
Tags: Silicon photonics, ESSenTIAL program, electrical equipment
Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) of Sugar Land, near Houston, TX, USA, a manufacturer of fiber-optic access network products (including components, modules and equipment) for the internet data-center, cable TV broadband, and ...
Tags: Applied Optoelectronics, lasers
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2015 (ended 3 May), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $320m, up 4.5% on about $306m both a year ago and last quarter. The ...
Tags: Finisar, OpEx, Electronics
VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany (a fabless spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia) has been selected by the European Commission to receive €1.97m in ...
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Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) has introduced the G2020 Series, its latest three-phase uninterruptible power system (UPS), in which silicon carbide (SiC) power modules in a three-level design enable 98%-efficient power protection ...
Tags: Toshiba SiC power modules, Electrical, Electronics, UPS
In a move to bring top talent back to India, Snapdeal, one of India’s largest online marketplace, has announced the appointment of Gaurav Gupta as vice president – engineering. In his new role, Gupta will spearhead the ...
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Revenue from 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit optical transceivers sold into the enterprise and data-center markets grew 21% to $1.4bn in 2014, almost entirely due to increased 40G QSFP (quad small-form-factor pluggable) spending, according to the ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that Facebook has deployed its Intelligent ...
Tags: Infinera, terrestrial network, Electrical
Inphi Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a provider of high-speed mixed-signal ICs for communications, data-center and computing markets, is adding to its 45GBaud linear coherent product family by sampling the IN4518SZ quad linear differential ...
Tags: MZM Driver, Inphi Corp, coherent product
Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA has launched what is claimed to be an industry-first 100G-CWDM system-on-chip fully integrated optoelectronic S-roC receiver IC ...
Tags: silicon photonics, receiver, transmitter
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has introduced two PICs for new optical transport ...
InnoLight Technology Corp of Suzhou, China, which designs and makes optical transceivers for the cloud computing market, has released its full family of 100G QSFP28 and 100G CFP4 transceivers. As data-center traffic is expected to triple ...
Tags: optical transceivers, cloud computing market, transceivers
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) is collaborating to demonstrate a single-mode 400G module in ...
Tags: 400G module, semiconductor, transceivers