LED lighting standards were one of the focuses at the 2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show as many firms introduced LED light bulbs meeting the requirements of Energy Star in hope to enter the international market. In addition, ...
Tags: LED, LED lighting, lighting
More than a quarter of the world's wafer capacity is for processes better than 40nm, says IC Insights. At the end of 2012, about 27% of global wafer capacity was for devices having geometries smaller than 40nm. Such devices include ...
Tags: IC, Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
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In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA says that Plextek RF Integration, a UK-based company that designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, has selected Agilent's Momentum software to simulate its new ...
Tags: Agilent Plextek 3D planar, electromagnetic software, Electrical
Startup makes LEDs on 8-in silicon substrates using microwire technology and has received a EUR 10 million investment to commercialize the technology. Aledia has announced that it has successfully transferred its microwire ...
Tags: silicon LEDs, LED technology, LED
A new data interface for battery management systems has been designed to provide interference immunity and to support distributed battery systems, writes Jon Munson from Linear Technology. For reliability of battery packs being designed ...
Tags: Hybrid Car, Car Batteries, Auto Parts
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) and Avago Technologies, a ...
Tags: TowerJazz SiGe Avago, Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
The 64V MJT 4040 uses what Seoul calls Multi Junction Technology and relies on a small AC-driver IC to eliminate the AC/DC driver typically utilized in SSL street lights. Seoul Semiconductor has announced the MJT 4040 packaged LED that ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, street lights, LED
Texas Instruments claims its latest lithium-ion battery charger IC can reduce charge time by 50% in smartphones and tablets compared to today's designs. The bq2419x family of 4.5A output, 20V input-rated switch-mode chargers have a I2C ...
Tags: TI, Chip, Smartphone Charge Time
TSMC and Imagination Technologies are working together to develop reference design flows and silicon implementations for Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 GPUs on TSMC’s advanced process technologies, including 16nm FinFET process ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim, California (19-21 March), analog semiconductor maker M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA has launched what it claims ...
Tags: M/A-COM, CFP/CFP2 Applications, Electronics
Samsung Electronics catapulted to the top of the optoelectronics supplier ranking in 2012 from 12th place in 2011 after it gained full ownership of Samsung LED, a 50-50 joint venture in light-emitting diodes that was created in 2009 between ...
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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 FastSMP, a next generation network ...
Tags: Infinera, network systems, digital optical network systems
ON Semiconductor will showcase its latest power efficient product advances at APEC 2013, March 17 - 21, 2013, in Long Beach, California. The new devices are designed for boosting performance and simplifying the design of offline power ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor