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) has been selected by Frost & ...
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) has signed a strategic OEM agreement with Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland, a ...
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Aledia S.A. of Grenoble, France, which is developing light-emitting diodes based on ‘WireLED’ three-dimensional (3D) microwire GaN-on-silicon technology that is claimed to cut manufacturing costs compared to conventional planar ...
Tags: Solid-State Lighting, Lighting
A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overload or short circuit. The circuit breaker is an absolutely essential device in the modern ...
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The arrival of the financial crisis, the real estate industry be hit, Zhongshan, the lighting industry and therefore suffered no small impact. Accelerate the pace of industrial upgrading and innovation to enhance their competitiveness ...
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Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. "Beards, Birkenstocks, blue jeans, T-shirts," Metcalfe said earlier ...
Tags: Ethernet, Computer Products, Startup
Revenues of € 100.0 million were achieved by Pfeiffer Vacuum in the first quarter of 2013. “Considering that we started the year 2013 with an order intake of € 97 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, we can be reasonably ...
Essemtec, a Swiss manufacturer of production systems for electronic assembly and packaging, will introduce the Scorpion high-speed jetter in booth #6766 at the upcoming SEMICON West, scheduled to take place July 9-11, 2013 at the Moscone ...
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Intel will continue to fulfill Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but keeping up with it is becoming more of a challenge as chips get smaller, according to a company executive. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that ...
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Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, TX, USA, which provides RF power technology for cellular markets, has introduced an enhancement-mode pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistor (pHEMT) low-noise amplifier (LNA) based on GaAs process ...
For first-quarter 2013, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) has ...
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Funded by the US Army Research Office, researchers at North Carolina State University ( at the atomic scale (just one atom thick). The technique can be used to create the thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are ...
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The need for controlled fluid fluid pressure has been crucial in many industry applications. This could be seen in the increased demand for fluid control systems in the infrastructure market. So a wide range of industrial pumps are ...
Expanded Relationship to Drive GaN-on-Silicon Development Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced the closing of an agreement with Toshiba Corporation, a ...
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.17 billion in orders worldwide in April 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.08, according to the April EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published ...