GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the first successful demonstration ...
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Flash storage vendor Violin Memory has acquired Gridiron Systems for an undisclosed sum and plans to use the company's application acceleration smarts with its flash arrays. Gridiron's operations units have already been integrated into ...
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Serious Energy, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced that Mike Brisbin has assumed the role of eastern region sales manager for its SeriousWindows vinyl replacement division. Brisbin is based in upstate New York and serves accounts ...
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has announced reference designs for what it claims are the world’s lightest and highest-energy-density flexible military charging mats. Alta fabricates single-junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
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Data-center networking vendor Emulex plans to acquire Endace, a maker of network performance management hardware and software, for about $130 million, the companies announced. The buyout will add Endace's network monitoring appliances, ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has been selected by DANTE (Delivery of Advanced ...
Osram has signed a contract with the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee to build a new assembly plant in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the new backend facility starting in late 2013; with ...
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Sunnyvale,CA–Osram Opto Semiconductors'new Oslon Signal LED currently provides the world's brightest blue light.Made using a special thin-film chip technology,the Oslon Signal emits powerful bright blue light providing significantly ...
Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, is expected to unveil her plan to turn around the ailing Internet company on Tuesday. Industry analysts say it's time for Mayer, who joined Yahoo in July, to lay out a vision for the company's future that ...
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ARM and Imagination Technologies have united to acquire semiconductor designer MIPS Technologies, with ARM paying the lion's share of the purchase price to snap up MIPS' patent portfolio, while Imagination will acquire MIPS' operational ...
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BiTMICRO, a leading manufacturer of enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), has obtained over 600 intellectual properties from QualCore, an IP & application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design services company. BiTMICRO will use this IP ...
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In booth 500 at the European Conference on Optical Communications(ECOC 2012)in Amsterdam,The Netherlands(17-19 September),fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale,CA,USA is demonstrating what it ...
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Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale,CA,USA and UK-headquartered Xyratex Ltd,a provider of data storage technology,with give a joint technology demonstration at the European Conference on ...
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ClariPhy Communications Inc of Irvine,CA,a fabless developer of mixed-signal digital signal processing(MXSP)system-on-chip(SoC)ICs for coherent optical networks,has announced an optimized 40G coherent SoC for metro networks. The ...
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