For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (ended 27 January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, has reported revenue of $238.4m, a drop of almost 5% on fiscal Q3/2012's $243m a year ago but ...
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AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrates and raw materials, has been certified as having met the international standards of ISO 16949:2009, a global standard developed by the ...
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT – says that it has achieved Milestone 4 ...
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Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that the first implementation of its new-generation dual-junction solar cell technology (augmenting its single-junction technology) has set an energy conversion efficiency record of 30.8% for ...
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For fourth-quarter 2012, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $18.9m, down 9% on $20.8m last quarter and 10.8% on $21.2m a year ago. Full-year revenue was $88.4m, down 15% on 2011's $104.1m. Fiscal Q4/2011 Q1/2012 Q2/2012 ...
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AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrate and raw materials, has announced a program authorizing the repurchase of up to $6m of the firm's common stock through 27 February 2014. ...
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Substrate is a solid (usually planar) substance onto which a layer of another substance is applied, and to which that second substance adheres. In solid-state electronics, this term refers to a thin slice of material such as silicon, ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK has released details of test results that demonstrate how its envelope tracking (ET) technology can unlocks the potential of RF CMOS power amplifiers (PAs) for high-end 3G and 4G ...
The global gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor device market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18% over 2012-2016, forecasts a new report from TechNavio (the market research platform of Infiniti Research Ltd). ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, has reported improved results for fiscal first-quarter 2013 (ending 28 December 2012). Revenue was $453.7m, up nearly 8% on last quarter’s $421.1m and 15% on ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched an X-band extension to its low-noise amplifier (LNA) ...
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Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), estimates that its engineered substrates (which are used in ...
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Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) says that in its lawsuit against defendants M/A-COM ...
UTC Aerospace Systems of Charlotte, NC, USA (a unit of United Technologies Corp formed after its acquisition of Sensors Unlimited Inc’s parent company Goodrich Corp in early August) will release its next-generation Sensors Unlimited ...
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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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