South Korean electronics giant Samsung has acquired a 2% stake in Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD for $455m. This move is being seen as an attempt by the South Korean firm to foray into automotive industry. Many technology ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, BYD, Samsung
Taiwan’s export orders in June continued dropping, but having showed positive signs to turn around soon. After a 15-month declining streak as of the end of June, Taiwan's overall export orders are likely to show growth in July at ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced a strategic agreement with global technology distributor Avnet Inc that expands coverage in the Americas for the distribution of Cree's portfolio of LED ...
Tags: Cree, LED Components, LED chip
When the first SiC diode was launched in 2001, the industry questioned the future of the SiC power business: Will it grow? Is this a real business? But 15 years later, in 2016, people don't ask these questions anymore, since the SiC power ...
Tags: SiC Power, SiC device
More mobile devices are expected to feature wireless charging which will stimulate demand for related analog ICs and protective components, according to industry sources. Wireless charging will be mostly built into high-end smartphones in ...
Tags: Wireless Charging, Mobile Devices
A new report claims that Samsung may be preparing to unveil the Gear S3 smartwatch and Galaxy Tab S3 at IFA 2016 in Berlin this autumn. The news comes to us from Italian tech writer Antonio Monaco via Twitter and points to the pair of ...
China-based Huawei and Xiaomi have entered the notebook market and Korea-based smartphone brand vendors Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are also releasing products for the market. Sources from the upstream supply chain have commented ...
Tags: Smartphone, Notebook
Raytheon UK's Integrated Power Solutions (IPS) business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland, has developed a high-temperature, small-form-factor bridge leg power module. Aimed at high-speed switching applications, the module has potential uses in ...
Tags: Raytheon, Electrical Switching
Honda Motor has co-developed the world's first hybrid vehicle motor magnet that uses no heavy rare earth elements. The automaker said the technology, developed with Daido Steel Co, will be used in the next Freed minivan due to go on sale ...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicle Motor, Rare Earth
Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd of Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan has developed what is claimed to be the first 1.2kV-class power semiconductor device chip capable of large-current operation exceeding 20A. Picture: Forward current–voltage ...
The global light-emitting diode (LED) packaging equipment market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 2% to more than $656m in 2020, according to a report by Technavio. The report considers the emergence of COB ...
Tags: LED, packaging equipment, COB
At its annual Imec Technology Forum (ITF) USA on 11 July, a half-day conference at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis hotel held in conjunction with the SEMICON West trade show and supported by industry association Semiconductor Equipment ...
Tags: IMEC, GaN-on-Si, III-Vs-on-silicon
At a ceremony at the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) National Centre for Power Electronics Annual Conference 2016 in Nottingham, UK, a post-graduate team from Imperial College London received the £2000 ...
Tags: GaN Systems, power conversion
Volkswagen and LG Electronics have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly develop a connected, cloud-based car service platform. The two companies will start working together on Volkswagen's Cross-Over-Platform, which ...
Tags: Volkswagen, LG Electronics
3D-Micromac AG of Chemnitz, Germany (which supplies laser micromachining systems and roll-to-roll laser systems for the photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets) says that its microDICE laser micromachining system has been ...
Tags: High-Power Diodes, power device