With the unchanging trend of falling LED prices, chip manufacturers are constantly improving LED chip production process and technologies to lower costs. Semiconductor equipment company GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has developed Hydride ...
Intel Capital, Intel's global investment and M&A organization, has announced investments in 16 new technology companies totaling US$65 million. Spanning nine countries, the investments will help drive innovations in the cloud, datacenter, ...
Tags: Intel Capital, mobile technologies
Prices of touchscreen controller ICs are expected to drop 20-30% in 2014, down from current levels of US$1.2-1.5 per unit for high-end smartphones and below US$1 for entry-level models, according to industry sources. Touchscreen ...
Tags: Touchscreen Controller, IC Prices
Corning Incorporated GLW +25.86% today announced preliminary third-quarter 2013 results. Corning is providing this preview to facilitate communications with investors regarding its announcement today that it has entered into a series of ...
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ARPA-E Deputy Director Cheryl Martin today announced $27 million in funding from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices ...
At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Atlanta (21-24 October), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has launched the first two members of its cost-effective TriAccess ...
Tags: TriQuint, Gan Amplifiers, Electrical, Electronics
At the Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS 2013) in Monterey, CA on 13 October, Japan's Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd presented details of a high-sensitivity receiver chip they have developed that, it is reckoned, will ...
Tags: Fujitsu InP HEMT, Electrical, Electronics
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: OPEL ODIS POET, Electrical, Electronics
Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of power semiconductors, announced that it will voluntarily transfer its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ Global Select Market on October 31, 2013. The ...
University of California Santa Barbara has been exploring the use of laser diodes (LDs) in combination with phosphors as a means to produce white light [Kristin A. Denault et al, AIP Advances, vol3, p072107, 2013]. Commercial 'white' ...
Tags: Near-UV LD, Blue LD, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that its wireless connectivity front-end modules (FEMs) are being used by Broadcom Corp in several of its 5G WiFi solutions, enabling some of the fastest download ...
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At the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2013) in Miyazaki, Japan (29 September to 4 October), SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment ...
Tags: Samco Etch, Electrical, Electronics
ARPA-E deputy director Cheryl Martin has announced $27m in funding from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Luger Research e.U., the organizer of LpS 2013, announced a new attendance record with increased international visitors and exhibitors. The positive feedback from visitors, attendees, exhibitors and organizations confirm the importance of ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting, Lights, Lighting
LCD driver IC vendors expect demand to pick up in the second half of October when downstream small LCD module makers will begin to replenish their component inventories, according to industry sources. Sales of white-box and entry-level ...
Tags: LCD Driver, IC Vendors