Taiwan-based makers in the iPhone supply chain must have been aware that sales of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have gradually lost their momentum, meaning Apple's orders for iPhones and related parts and components are going to decline in the ...
Tags: iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Benefit from various countries' promotion on LED lighting products and LED applications in large-sized LCD field, LED Display Screen Industry continues to keep rapid growth in 2009, which becomes key areas of demand expansion. Technological ...
Tags: LED Display, LED Screen, Chipshow
Brisk orders for IoT-related products are expected to boost the performance of several Taiwan-based IC design houses specializing in MCUs, power management ICs and wireless transmission chips in 2016, according to industry sources. Elan ...
Tags: IoT devices, IC Design
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received multiple orders from a leading foundry in Asia for its Precision Surface Processing (PSP) WaferStorm system (a platform that provides ...
Tags: Veeco Wet processing, Veeco Instruments Inc, Electronics
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded high-purity ammonia production capacity at a plant in Taiwan (owned by its manufacturing subsidiary) from 2500 tons per year to 3500 tons per year. SDK has three sites for producing ...
Tags: SDK High-purity ammonia GaN LEDs, Showa Denko, Electronics
As part of its strategy to move more significantly into power semiconductors for industrial and automotive markets, Littelfuse Inc of Chicago, IL, USA has made an investment in silicon carbide (SiC) diode and MOSFET supplier Monolith ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices, Electrical
Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery
In an update on current trading and confirms its expectations for full-year 2015, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that it is on track to achieve year-on-year revenue growth, with second-half revenue ...
Tags: IQE, epiwafer foundry, Electronics
EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) says that over the past year it has seen a significant increase in demand for its wafer bonding ...
SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has launched an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system focusing on gate oxide ...
A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
Tags: GaN p-n junction diodes, GaN Power Switches, solid-state lighting
The UK is paying more attention to the impact from China’s easing economy upon the global economy. China’s economic slowdown has spurred Chinese enterprises to increased overseas engagement after a long learning period, Chinese ...
The mainland company Unigroup's investment in Taiwan's semiconductor industry is purely commercial and should not be politicized, a mainland official said Wednesday. Unigroup, controlled by the prestigious Tsinghua University, is buying ...
Tags: Unigroup, semiconductor
GreenPeak Technologies, the world leading low power RF semiconductor company for Smart Home and IoT applications, has launched its wireless LED Lighting solution, a low-cost ambient lighting application based on the new GreenPeak GP651 ...
Tags: GreenPeak, Wireless LED Lighting, LED bulbs
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has received two orders for research MBE machines. The Fraunhofer HHI (Heinrich Hertz Institute) in ...