Due to falling prices and the commercial availability of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor power devices from multiple sources, the adoption of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power devices in power supplies for computers, ...
Tags: Semiconductor, GaN power devices
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has acquired a 2% stake in Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD for $455m. This move is being seen as an attempt by the South Korean firm to foray into automotive industry. Many technology ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, BYD, Samsung
As part of its three-pillar strategy announced last November, Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany is further expanding the leading position of its Specialty Lighting (SP) business by agreeing to acquire Novità Technologies of ...
Tags: Osram, LED Module
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has provided solar panels to Projecto YOSI, an organization working to keep Bolivia's Salar de ...
Tags: Solar Frontier, Solar Panels, PV
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced a strategic agreement with global technology distributor Avnet Inc that expands coverage in the Americas for the distribution of Cree's portfolio of LED ...
Tags: Cree, LED Components, LED chip
When the first SiC diode was launched in 2001, the industry questioned the future of the SiC power business: Will it grow? Is this a real business? But 15 years later, in 2016, people don't ask these questions anymore, since the SiC power ...
Tags: SiC Power, SiC device
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications) says that its infrastructure solutions have supported more than twenty 5G ...
Tags: Qorvo, Infrastructure Providers
Plextek RFI Ltd of Cambridge, UK, which designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, has announced a new reference design for a gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifier (PA) monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
Tags: MMICs, microwave, millimeter-wave modules
Nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film solar module maker Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA and Silicon Ranch are celebrating the completion of Mississippi's largest commercial solar facility to date, ...
Tags: Stion CIGSSe, Solar Facility
The pan-European REFERENCE research project - created to leverage disruptive radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) technology in developing industrial solutions for the performance, cost and integration needs of RF front-end modules ...
Tags: RF-SOI, ECSEL, 4G+communications
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – is reallocating production capacity ...
Hanergy Holding Group launched four full solar power vehicles at a grand ceremony arranged outside its headquarters in Beijing. Over 4,000 guests from all sectors of society attended the event. A sports car named "Hanergy Solar R" made ...
In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that, following the request of customers and utilizing the modular concept of its new Gen3 in-situ platform, it has customized and expanded the related in-situ metrology ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that Huawei's newest flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones are being enabled by a broad suite of its devices, ranging from highly ...
ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new three-year project launched on 1 February (followed by a kick-off meeting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-25 February) with the goal of ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, silicon photonics