Although the market for RF gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices (merchant and captive, but excluding foundry) rose by just 0.9% in 2016 as an anticipated drop in cellular revenue nearly offset gains in other market segments, revenue still ...
Tags: GaAs RF market, LTE
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp (TDSC) - spun off from Toshiba Corp in July - has enhanced its diode portfolio with the addition of six Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) fabricated with silicon carbide (SiC) and housed in ...
Tags: Toshiba, Schottky Barrier, Package
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 opened its Optoelectronics Customer Innovation Lab, with ...
Tags: semiconductors, analog RF
Anokiwave Inc of San Diego, CA, USA – which provides highly integrated silicon core chips and III-V front-end integrated circuits for millimeter-wave (mmW) markets and active antenna based solutions – has launched the AWA-0134 ...
Tags: Anokiwave, integrated circuits
Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has introduced Flextune, a new hardware-configurable feature that simplifies deployment of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) ...
Lamb Weston has completed a $200m expansion project at an existing potato facility in Richland, Washington (WA) to increase its processing capacity for manufacturing frozen French fries. The Richland facility, which was built in 1972, was ...
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – is sampling its new ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched the UltraCMOS PE29102 high-speed FET driver. With a ...
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world’s largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced its vision and roadmap for a range of technology ...
Tags: semiconductor, wireless networks
After being showcased at the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC, USA (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) has launched the EpiEra high-quality ...
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Neenah Paper has signed a definitive agreement to purchase all of the outstanding equity of W.A. Sanders Coldenhove Holding. Coldenhove is a specialty materials manufacturer based in the Netherlands, with a leading position in digital ...
Global production of high-brightness LED chips is expected to grow 2.8% year-on-year to US$13.179bn in 2017, then at 2-5% annually during 2018-2022, forecasts Digitimes Research. The production value for automotive and display ...
Tags: LED chips, LED lighting
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) says that its RF Energy Toolkits are now available for order, ...
Tags: RF Systems, Macom
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has announced an expanded portfolio of 802.11ax products for Wi-Fi gateways, set-top boxes, routers and ...
The automotive lighting market is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.7%, from $25.7bn in 2016 to nearly $27.7bn in 2017 and $35.9bn in 2022, estimates market research firm Yole Développement in its report ...
Tags: Automotive LED lighting, LED