Japan's Rohm Semiconductor has announced the availability of a new 1700V silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) optimized for industrial applications, including manufacturing equipment and ...
Tags: SiC, MOSFET, manufacturing equipment
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 ...
LeddarTech unveiled key insights about its LeddarCore IC roadmap, which can enable low-cost, high-performance solid-state LiDARs for multiple automotive safety applications—from ADAS to autonomous driving. During the Sensors EXPO ...
Tags: Autonomous Driving, LeddarCore ICs
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that Huawei's newest flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones are being enabled by a broad suite of its devices, ranging from highly ...
Makers in the handset supply chains in Taiwan and China are becoming more conservative about building up inventories for parts and components due to intensifying competition in the China market as a result of the release of the iPhone SE, ...
Tags: handset, iPhone, camera modules
Notebook-related IC suppliers expect to see revenues grow 10-15% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016 prior to a major pick-up in the third quarter, according to industry sources. Orders for notebook-use ICs staged a slight rebound ...
Tags: notebook, notebook-IC, IC
Turn-key back-end production services firm Presto Engineering Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides semiconductor product engineering & test and supply chain management to integrated device manufacturer, fabless and electronics ...
Tags: Presto RF testing
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced its SiGe Terabit ...
Tags: TowerJazz RF CMOS SiGe
Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched its first products, which are claimed to be the industry's first gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs. Navitas was founded in 2013, and in 2014 investment firm MalibuIQ licensed the ...
Tags: GaN, Power electronics
In booth #3419 at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC 2016), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced its line-up of fiber-optic transceivers designed to drive the data-center transition from 40Gb/s to 100Gb/s and ...
Tags: Oclaro, Transition, OFC
Nanoelectronics research center imec of Leuven, Belgium has opened its new 300mm cleanroom. With this 4000m2 new facility, imec's semiconductor research cleanrooms (dedicated to scaling IC technology beyond 7nm) now total 12,000m2. Global ...
In booth #2244 at the 31st IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach (20-24 March), Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on ...
Tags: GaN FETs, DC-DC Converter
Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing ,one of the containerboard manufacturers in China, announced its annual results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2015. During the period, the Group recorded a total sales volume of 5.44 million tons, a ...
e2v inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (which provides solutions, sub-systems and components to the medical & science, aerospace & defense and commercial & industrial markets) has signed a strategic re-seller agreement to be the sole provider to the ...
Tags: RF Products, integrated circuits