China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, increased mildly in August -- an encouraging sign for a slowing economy. Industrial output expanded 6.3 percent year on year last month, faster than the 6-percent ...
The launch in late August by Dialog Semiconductor plc - a fabless provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid-state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth low-energy technology - of a gallium nitride (GaN) power IC ...
Researchers in Russia have developed an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well laser diode on (001) germanium-on-silicon 'virtual substrate' without offcut angle [V. Ya. Aleshkin et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p061111, 2016]. ...
Tags: InGaAs, Laser diodes, III-Vs-on-Si
Shipments of handsets, mostly smartphone models, by Taiwan-based handset makers are expected to peak at 14.49 million units in the third quarter of 2016 before sliding to 13.47 million units in the fourth quarter, according to an estimate ...
Tags: handset, smartphone
As part of the Local Control of Materials Synthesis (LoCo) program of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) have developed the new electron-enhanced atomic layer deposition ...
For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received an order for its 25th GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Introduced in August 2013, the GENxplor system is said to be ...
Tags: Veeco MBE, GENxplor system
New research from Worldpay reveals that high-spending super-shoppers in Australia see online shopping as a daily task, not just an occasional treat A small group of highly active Australian shoppers account for 92% of all spending on ...
A joint initiative between Thin Film Electronics ASA and Jones Packaging has now enabled the automated application of Thinfilm’s NFC OpenSense tags to paperboard pharma packaging on a Jones high-speed production line at the ...
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A and Electronics For Imaging (EFII) have introduced new EFI Fiery digital front end (DFE), developed to enhance the performance of digital presses. Through delivering better image quality and ...
Tags: Konica Minolta, EFII, DFE
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several of its semiconductor solutions (including its SkyHi multimode modules and switches) are powering LG Electronics Inc' ...
Tags: Skyworks, OCU, LG Electronics
EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for 600V high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) power and RF devices, says that ...
Harrison Packaging, one of Europe’s independent suppliers of printed cartons, has signed a deal to further automate its plant-wide ERP workflow, purchasing an EFI Packaging Suite. The company, which is based in Stockton-on-Tees in ...
Shipment of mobile application processors for smartphones and tablets in the China market are expected to grow 18.6% in the second half of 2016 from those shipped in the first half of the year due to seasonal demand and inventory build-ups ...
Tags: smartphones, tablets