The Ostar Headlamp Pro LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has been used by Peterson Manufacturing Company of Grandview, MO, USA (a subsidiary of Peterson Corp) in its new 7-inch round automotive headlight, ...
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Mercedes-Benz has revealed it is researching ways to integrate Google Glass technology into its future vehicle range. Despite Google Glass still being in the development phase, the German marque is already working on one project that ...
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Researchers in Silicon Valley have managed to observe electrical switching that is thousands of times faster than transistors used in today's computer chips. Their work could lead to a better understanding of how transistors work at the ...
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China's move to slap retaliatory antidumping tariffs on solar polysilicon imported from the US and South Korea will cause only a slight increase in domestic pricing for the material, according to IHS. The Ministry of Commerce in China ...
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Sub-watt LEDs in 3014 and 3030 packages target general illumination and are based on the gallium-nitride-on-silicon technology developed by Toshiba and Bridgelux. Toshiba has announced two mid-power white LED families that are being ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), is expanding its family of MultiSwitch STeP8 dual single-pole, seven throw (SP7T/SP7T) ...
Power generation and transmission firm Alstom and Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, ...
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Toshiba Corporation announced the launch of white LEDs fabricated with gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) process. The LEDs are low power sub-watt type and ideal for indoor lighting applications, due to reduction of forward voltage ...
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China and the US are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs and likely to have a global impact in the next four years, said KPMG that released results of a survey recently. KPMG’s 2013 ...
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How do we promote ag by the numbers? Agriculture waiting on Silicon Valley moment I don't pick it, pull it, pluck it, plow it or plant it For all the faults, lies and downright lies associated with social media I would like to think there ...
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The European Union (EU) has not yet decided on whether to impose anti-dumping tariff rates on solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers and cells imported from China, and if the EU does not impose the tariff, Taiwan-based solar cell makers ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,19 commodities increased in prices, 23 fell and 58 remained unchanged on 29/07/2013.The largest rises were Phenol (1.82%),Calcium carbide (1.44%),PA (1.08%),while the ...
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Brad Kelley, the farm boy with 1 million acres Farmer guilty of defending family with shotgun The farmland gold rush may be cooling, but the fields of agriculture remain wide open to investment. Venture capitalists, DIYers, and a new ...
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The European Union (EU) and the China government have reached a consensus about minimum prices and an annual quota to be set on PV modules imported from China to resolve anti-dumping disputes, and this is expected to benefit Taiwan-based ...
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China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest steelmaker in Taiwan announced that it has initiated commercial production of hot-dipped galvanized coils at its Vietnamese cold rolling and coil-coating project on July 25th. It’s known that ...
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