The Phosphor-on-Die LEDs are based on TSMC's LED flip-chip manufacturing platform and enable more dense packing of emitters in compact light sources such as MR16 lamps. TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd (NYSE: TSM) has announced the ...
For third-quarter 2013, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, down 26% on €62.2m a year ago but up slightly on €45.3m last quarter. In spite of the lower percentage of ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
Financial reports for first half of 2013 released by several Taiwanese LED manufacturers recently showed Epistar rebounded from losses as subsidy Huga Optotech reached break-even point (BEP) in June. For the first half of 2013, ...
For the past three years, Seoul Semiconductor's main product had been the mid-powered 5630. However, the company has recently turned its attention towards 3030 LED in 2013, to compete with Nichia's better price/performance (P/P) 767 series ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Lights, Lighting, LED
With the unchanging trend of falling LED prices, chip manufacturers are constantly improving LED chip production process and technologies to lower costs. Semiconductor equipment company GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has developed Hydride ...
For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 29 September 2013), LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $391m, up 4% on $375m last quarter and 24% on $315.8m a year ago. Fiscal Q1/2013 ...
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Apple has announced the iPad Air featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display. Weighed one pound, iPad Air is 20% thinner and 28% lighter than the fourth-generation iPad, and with a narrower bezel the borders of iPad Air are thinner. Apple has ...
Intel Capital, Intel's global investment and M&A organization, has announced investments in 16 new technology companies totaling US$65 million. Spanning nine countries, the investments will help drive innovations in the cloud, datacenter, ...
Tags: Intel Capital, mobile technologies
US-based BioNano Genomics has announced the launch of the IrysChip V2, a new, high-throughput chip for the Irys system that now supports human genome analysis. With a 15-fold increase in throughput, the new chip now makes possible the ...
At the Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS 2013) in Monterey, CA on 13 October, Japan's Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd presented details of a high-sensitivity receiver chip they have developed that, it is reckoned, will ...
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Sunpartner Technologies and 3M have announced an agreement to collaborate in product development and technical solutions. The two companies are developing a sustainable wireless transparent micro component that will charge devices while ...
Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that, just months after being launched on the market, its LUXEON CoB (chip-on-board) LED arrays now provide 10% greater performance. The result is luminous efficacy of up to 130lm/W and what is ...
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POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
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With the Apple launch just an hour away, Computing has been taking a look to see what might be included this time round. Last month, of course, the most intriguing aspect of Apple's iPhone 5S and 5C unveilings was the support for 64-bit ...
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Reshuffling in the LED chip manufacturing industries in Taiwan and China through merger may happen faster than originally expected and larger makers will merge with smaller ones, leaving only two Taiwan-based makers and three China-based ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED packaging