The average monthly price of sapphire has fallen by more than 30% year on year this September, according to the latest 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. This decline is the result of ...
SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (which is owned by Israeli firm Orbotech) has sold its Thermal Products business to SPP Technologies Co Ltd (SPT), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Precision Products Co Ltd (SPP) that specializes in the ...
Tags: SPTS Thermal processing systems, SPP technologies, semiconductor
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched a new product family of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), beginning with the AMV8901 (7.3-8.2GHz), AMV8902 (7.8-8.8GHz), ...
Tags: Anadigics VCOs, Wireless Backhaul
Crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has obtained from Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office a patent for a process to grow polycrystalline silicon ingots, according to the company. SAS filed for the patent ...
Tags: SAS, Wafer Process
Bruker Corp has introduced its LumiMap electroluminescence system for high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) epi wafer process metrology. Joining a suite of other Bruker HB-LED epi metrology tools, LumiMap incorporates many of the ...
Tags: Hb-LED Epi Wafers, Electrical
EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, and manufacturer of chemicals for the electronics industry Dynaloy LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company) have introduced ...
Tags: lithography equipment, Electrical, Electronics, compound semiconductor
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has launched RF switching technology that aims to enable early adopters to implement carrier aggregation solutions. Carrier aggregation allows mobile service providers ...
Tags: Skyworks, Switches, Electronics
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (a Bridgepoint portfolio company) has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The award recognizes the ...
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Taiwan-based tier-two LED chipmaker Tyntek has confirmed that its upstream blue epitaxial wafer firm Alpha Plus Epi has suspended production. Rumors regarding the production suspension of Alpha Plus Epi have been circulating in the market ...
Driven by market demand, the semiconductor industry progressed toward consensus on building-block standards for automating LED production on 6-in wafers at the Semicon West conference, explains PAULA DOE. ...
Tags: LED