Sanan Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (Sanan IC) of Xiamen City, Fujian province (China’s first 6-inch pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry) has announced its entry into the North American, European and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets ...
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German automaker Daimler has started production of its Mercedes-Benz A-Class vehicle at the Mercedes-Benz Kecskemét plant in Hungary. This makes the Hungarian plant, about 90 km in the south of Budapest, the second location ...
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Mercedes-Benz Cars is investing more than €100m in a battery factory in Thailand. With a strategic decision Mercedes-Benz Cars is enhancing the manufacturing footprint in South-East Asia addressing growing demand for electric ...
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Ford is investing $25m at its Kentucky plant to increase production of its Lincoln Navigator, Expedition SUVs in order to meet increasing customer demand. The company claimed that Navigator retail sales were up triple digits in most ...
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Packaging firm Sonoco has reported a 13.7% increase in net sales to $1.30bn for the fourth quarter of 2017, compared to $1.14bn for the same period in 2016. The company said the growth in net sales was supported by acquisitions, net of ...
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For fiscal first-quarter 2018 (to end-September 2017), optical and photonic optical component and subsystem maker Lumentum Holdings Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported revenue of $243.2m, down 5.8% on $258.1m a year ago due to softer ...
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For fiscal first-quarter 2018 (to end-September 2017), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $155.6m (split about 48%:52% between ...
Tags: components, modules, optical communications
Fabless silicon photonics system-on-chip (SoC) company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA has acquired Novati Technologies LLC, a semiconductor integration company with a fabrication plant in Austin, TX. Skorpios delivers ...
German luxury automaker Daimler, through its brand Mercedes Benz is investing $1bn in Alabama, US plant to produce electric vehicles. The company plans to produce EQ-branded SUV models at MBUSI (Mercedes-Benz U.S. International), its ...
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Huawei is likely to outpace Apple to become the second largest smartphone vendor globally in the third quarter of 2017 as sales of China-based vendor's high-end P- and M-series as well as the more affordable Honor-branded models have ...
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Atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology firm Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland, Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) and Atom Semicon Co Ltd of New Taipei City, Taiwan have begun a joint collaboration on the ...
Kush Bottles has hired a new sales and support team, led by Carmen Lam, to handle the rapidly growing legal cannabis market in Nevada. According to ABC News, recreational marijuana sales have exceeded expectations, with long lines outside ...
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In booth #Q60 (hall 8) at the ANGACOM 2017 Exhibition & Congress for Broadband, Cable and Satellite in Cologne, Germany (30 May – 1 June), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical ...
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Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, has reported record results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 with significant year-over-year increases in Adjusted EBITDA, net income, free cash flow and automotive ...
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Rumours that Apple’s iPhone 8 might by delayed until next year have been challenged by a new report from China. It’s long been rumoured that Apple is going big this year; the 10th anniversary iPhone is tipped to pack all kinds ...