The need for high-power, high-frequency transistors is increasing steadily, commensurate with the huge demand for wireless telecommunications, notes market research firm Yole Développement in its report ‘RF GaN Technology & ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has delivered the first 200mm (8") gallium nitride-on-silicon wafers (GaN-on-Si) into the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center's Low Energy Electronic ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has expanded its family of radio-frequency power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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At the SEMICON West trade show in San Francisco (9-11 July), 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 ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, has begun mass production of its RFX240 high-power 2.4GHz ...
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IBM has introduced the fifth generation of its semiconductor technology specialized for high-performance communications. The firm’s latest silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process is designed to enable increasing amounts of data ...
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Sorin Group, a Netherlands-based company, has received US FDA approval for the launch the Smartview remote monitoring solution for patients with implanted cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices. Using the secure SMARTVIEW remote ...
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LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100 billion and power conversion electronics to $15 billion over the next decade as the desire for energy efficiency drives adoption, says Lux Research. While the market opportunity ...
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LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100bn and power conversion electronics to $15bn over the next ten years, reckons market analyst firm Lux Research in the report “Winning the Jump Ball: Sorting Winners from ...
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and subsystems) has expanded its family of radio-frequency transistors based on gallium ...
Tags: Microsemi, GaN on SiC, radio frequency transistors, HEMT
Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has released a new suite of Verilog-A proprietary nonlinear device models for its gallium nitride(GaN)RF devices(available free to Cree's RF customers),developed for use with leading RF design platforms from ...
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4 June 2012 Handset RF device market to grow from$3.8bn to$5bn in 2016 As handset RF front ends(containing gallium arsenide)are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the 4G era,they cost$9-11 for 4G devices,which is twice that for 3G and ...
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK says that its Sigma fxP physical vapor deposition (PVD) system had been selected by a Chinese foundry dedicated to producing RF ...
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