In hall 9, booth 316 at PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany (10-12 May), Japan's Rohm Semiconductor is showcasing its latest power products for high-speed switching and high-power performance, while ...
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has confirmed that investment firm Paragon Technologies Inc of Easton, PA, USA, ...
Fabless high-temperature and and extended-lifetime semiconductor firm CISSOID of Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium has delivered the first prototypes of a three-phase 1200V/100A silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET intelligent power module (IPM) to ...
ACCO Semiconductor Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a fabless provider of RF front-end components manufactured using standard high-volume bulk CMOS processes for smart-phone and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, has closed a $35m funding ...
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Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held fabless ...
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Turn-key back-end production services firm Presto Engineering Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides semiconductor product engineering & test and supply chain management to integrated device manufacturer, fabless and electronics ...
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Semiconductor process equipment maker SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan is employing about 20 more people at its locations in North America, China, Taiwan and Singapore, as well as its subsidiary Samco-UCP in Liechtenstein, in order to better ...
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Wolfspeed of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA – a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wide-bandgap semiconductor devices – says that its GaN-on-SiC RF power transistors have completed testing ...
VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has introduced a ...
Freebird Semiconductor Corp of North Andover, MA, USA, which manufactures high-reliability gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) products for power semiconductor technologies in the commercial space-flight ...
In 2014, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of the gallium-nitride-based blue-light LED and its use for new, efficient LED-based white lamps. The development efforts in this field, however, do not stop there. The ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced its SiGe Terabit ...
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Analog and mixed-signal semiconductor manufacturer Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has unveiled SkyLiTE 2.0, its next-generation front-end solution powering LTE devices. The highly integrated platform provides smartphone makers ...
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The US Department of Defense's Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Devices for Sensing Branch (AFRL/RYDD) has issued a Request For Information (RFI) titled 'Development of Large Diameter Silicon Carbide Substrate and ...
The Semiconductor's business unit of Raytheon UK in Glenrothes, Scotland (a subsidiary of Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA) and Newcastle University's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering have collaborated to produce silicon ...
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