Simpler and more cost-effective methods are needed in LED lamp manufacture. VTT Ventures Ltd and Lumichip Ltd are pleased to announce a joint investment in Finnish LED technology company LightTherm Ltd that uses its innovative materials and ...
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Toshiba is preparing a 20-megapixel image sensor for digital cameras that it says will be the highest resolution of its kind. The Tokyo-based firm said the new chips will be able to support capturing 30 frames per second at full ...
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A jury in Pennsylvania has ordered chip maker Marvell Technology to pay $1.17 billion for patent infringement in one of the largest awards of its kind. The jury found that Marvell infringed two patents related to hard disk drive ...
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Computerworld-The PC industry got another does of sour news Friday when Intel announced it's cutting its third-quarter revenue outlook. The world's largest chip maker lowered its revenue forecast from an expected$13.8 billion to$14.8 ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that RFMD fellow Kevin W. Kobayashi has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers by the IEEE board of directors. The IEEE grade of fellow was conferred ...
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Inspectrology LLC of Sudbury, MA, USA, which manufactures the IVS optical overlay metrology product line, has signed agreements to be represented in Asia by Excellis Pte Ltd of Singapore and in Europe by Eumetrys SAS of Gaillac, France. ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to start using 450-millimeter wafers to build its processors in 2018, following delays in the development of the new manufacturing technology. TSMC, a contract manufacturer of smartphone ...
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Based in Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge was a leader in atomic layer deposition (ALD) solutions with hundreds of system installations in research and manufacturing settings worldwide. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ...
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IDG News Service - Weak economies in the U.S. and Europe together with a slowdown in manufacturing in China hurt semiconductor sales during the second quarter this year, and the market will deteriorate further in the coming quarters as ...
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Automotive headlamp applications using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been undergoing very active development since 2004. The first series-production LED headlamps were factory-installed on the Lexus LS 600h / LS 600h L presented in 2007 ...
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IDG News Service-ARM is catching up with Intel on 3D transistors,announcing a new partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to manufacture 64-bit chips that are faster and more power-efficient than current chips in which ...
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IDG News Service - Rambus on Wednesday said it would lay off around 15 percent of staff as part of a restructuring effort in which the company is trying to curb expenses to improve profitability. Rambus currently has about 500 employees, ...
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IDG News Service - Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Sony and Qualcomm have formed the In-Location Alliance, which will work to improve the accuracy of indoor positioning, the companies said on Thursday. Indoor positioning is the next frontier ...
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Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, has used nanocolumns of nitride semiconductor to produce different emission color LEDs in a single growth process for what is claimed to be the first time [Katsumi Kishino et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, ...
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Japan's Sharp is seeking an investment from U.S. chip giant Intel and other companies. A day after Kyodo News, Japan's largest news agency, reported that Sharp is in final negotiations for Intel to invest up to $500 million, the Japanese ...
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