Intel reported another drop in profits for the second quarter and narrowed its sales outlook for the full year, as the declining PC market continues to eat away at its business. Intel's profit for the quarter, ended June 29, was down 29 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, intel
Brian Corbett of Ireland's Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (UCC) has received an Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for 2013. He is the third Tyndall researcher to win the annual honor. Tyndall has now won three of the ...
Tags: LEDs GaN Free-standing GaN, LED, Electrical, Electronics
China's Ministry of Finance has decided to impose an anti-dumping security deposit on solar-grade polysilicon imported from several US- and South Korea-based producers beginning July 24. The producers subject to the antidumping security ...
Passive component supplier Nichidenbo, which distributes capacitor and resistor parts for vendors including Nippon Chemi-Con, will see its revenues more than double in 2013 after the company took up the management of component channel ...
Tags: Nichidenbo, 2013, Sales
Apple is reportedly looking to purchase the company behind the Kinect sensor, the motion controller for Microsoft's Xbox 360. PrimeSense, a semiconductor chip manufacturing company based in Israel, licensed the hardware design and chip ...
Tags: Sensor, Apple, Computer Products, Kinect sensor, Xbox 360
Texas State University (in San Marcos) has announced an agreement granting MicroPower Global Ltd (which was established in 2008 and is developing thermoelectric devices for energy conservation, energy harvesting and refrigeration) exclusive ...
The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Semiconductors and Tsinghua University claim “the first proof-of-concept experimental demonstration of the current-driven pyramid array InGaN/GaN core-shell LEDs interconnected with ...
Tags: Pyramid-array LEDs, Graphene Electrodes, GaN, MOCVD
Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor & Storage Products Company today announced that it will exhibit LED driver IC solutions for LED lighting system at TECHNO-FRONTIER 2013 / Power System Japan 2013. The Exhibit will be held from July 17 to ...
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, says that it has started volume production of its RFX333 ...
Cree has added to its residential-targeted LED retrofit lamp family with a BR30, while Soraa appoints execs, MaxLite expands its engineering department, and Dialog closes iWatt acquisition. Cree Lighting has announced a 9.5W BR30 LED lamp ...
Tags: Cree, BR30, Lights&Lighting
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has received the Outstanding Supplier and Perfect Quality awards from China's Lenovo for "product innovation, delivering perfect quality solutions and serving as a ...
Tags: Skyworks, Electrical, Electronics
Peking and Xidian universities have jointly developed a self-terminating gate recess etch that allows them to produce aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) normally-off metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with positive ...
Tags: Electrical, gate recess etch
Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd of Yokohama, Japan has released the MB51T008A, a silicon-substrate-based, gallium-nitride (GaN) power device with a drain-source breakdown voltage (V(BR)DSS) of 150V. Features of the MB51T008A include: (1) ...
Tags: Power Device, Electrical
Taiwan-based IC design companies have seen their order visibility for September remain unclear, predicting third-quarter sales will grow within a range of 10% sequentially, according to industry sources. Recent reports of slow sales of ...
Tags: IC Design Firms, IC vendors
SEMICON Taiwan is set to open in September amidst an improving global and regional outlook for 2013 and 2014 that sees Taiwan remaining the largest and strongest market for semiconductor manufacturing. SEMICON Taiwan 2013, to be held ...
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