China has the third largest IMF quota and voting share after the United States and Japan since the IMF reform plan being ratified by the U.S. Congress last week. [Photo: finance.sina.com.cn] Emerging powers like China, India, and Brazil ...
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As part of its strategy to move more significantly into power semiconductors for industrial and automotive markets, Littelfuse Inc of Chicago, IL, USA has made an investment in silicon carbide (SiC) diode and MOSFET supplier Monolith ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices, Electrical
The PROJEN Product Appreciation Conference themed with “Get Win-win on Innovative Road” was held in Bijie manufacturing base of Lifan Shijun Group in Guizhou Province and PROJEN Yijun light-duty truck which conforms to National ...
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Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA has announced a portfolio of ultra-compact optical components that enable the emerging CFP2-ACO (analog coherent optics) pluggable transceiver ...
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Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery
LED lighting technology firm Flip Chip Opto Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has launched what it claims is a first-in-class 2400W high-power LED flip-chip chip-on-board (COB) LED as part of its flagship Apollo series based on the firm's patented ...
Visible and infrared LED sensor product maker Marktech Optoelectronics of Latham, NY, USA, whose capabilities span wafer growth through finished packaging and custom solutions, has introduced the latest in its series of high-power 950nm LED ...
Tags: Marktech Optoelectronics, Optimized for optical switches and sensors
In an update on current trading and confirms its expectations for full-year 2015, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that it is on track to achieve year-on-year revenue growth, with second-half revenue ...
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EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) says that over the past year it has seen a significant increase in demand for its wafer bonding ...
Nissan announced today that a new 5.6-liter Endurance V8 gasoline engine, assembled in Decherd, Tennessee, will be available in the all-new TITAN and TITAN XD full-size pickup trucks, completing the first phase of the "American TITAN" ...
The vehicle delivering ceremony of which Chinese government aiding Azerbaijan municipal sanitation trucks program was held in Zoomlion Lugu Industrial Park in Changsha City,Hunan Province on December, 14, 2015. These 45 municipal sanitation ...
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SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has launched an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system focusing on gate oxide ...
Kind words aren’t often said about the Apple Watch’s battery life, but that could be about to change. A company has developed an Apple Watch strap that purports to extend battery life significantly. The Prime Strap, built ...
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration have passed and announced the revised Feed-in Tariff (FiT) rates for solar and wind energy for 2016. The rates for solar projects in all three ...
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The comparison between convetional and LED streetlights. (Photo Courtesy of LED Streetlight Upgrade Project of City of St. Catharines) On Dec 17, the City of St. Catharines, which sits in Southern Ontario, Canada, is switching its high- ...
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