Japanese Omron Automotive Electronics (OAE) has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.6m fine for its involvement in rigging bids for power window switches in Honda Civics, the US department of justice (DoJ) said. The justice department said ...
Tags: OAE, Bid rigging case
Trends in consumer engagement will lead to the rapid rise of smart packaging solutions as costs become more manageable for brand owners. A new report by packaging industry researcher Smithers Pira predicts the global smart (active and ...
Tags: Smart packaging, Technology, Smithers Pira
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
Matheson Tri-Gas Inc of Basking Ridge, NJ, USA, together with its parent company Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp (TNSC) of Tokyo, Japan, says that the Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at the University of California, Santa ...
Tags: Matheson, Taiyo Nippon Sanso, MOCVD, UVC LEDs
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has signed global technology distributor Avnet Inc as distributor for all its product ...
Tags: GigOptix, Avnet, Distribution
GE Aviation (an operating unit of GE) has been awarded a $2.1m contract from the US Army to develop and demonstrate silicon carbide (SiC)-based power electronics supporting high-voltage next-generation ground vehicle electrical power ...
Tags: GE Aviation, SiC power devices
UK-based Cobham plc (which designs and manufactures equipment, specialized systems and components for the aerospace, defense, energy and electronics industries) has established a strategic partnership to incorporate the gallium nitride ...
Designed with a low profile and shallow installation depth for delivering task lighting from tight spaces, WAC Lighting’s new LED90 Edge Lit Button Lights are designed to be surface mounted or recessed. The versatile LED luminaires ...
Tags: LED, WAC, WAC Lighting
Following significant drops both on month and on year in January, worldwide notebook shipments remained weak in February, growing only 2% sequentially for the top-five brand vendors together and 1% sequentially for the top-three notebook ...
Italian automotive component manufacturer Eldor will invest about $75m in the Botetourt County of Virginia, US. The plant will create 350 jobs in the region which will be Eldor's first plant in the country. The company manufactures ...
Fairchild Semiconductor of San Jose CA, USA has launched its first 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) diode, the FFSH40120ADN, in its series of upcoming SiC solutions. The 1200V diode's combination of switching performance, reliability and low ...
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In booth 1655 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA, USA (20–24 March), Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA is demonstrating its fast-switching silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices
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 ...
Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd has updated its range of top-view, white, low- to mid-power LEDs in 2835 form-factor (2.8mm x 3.5mm x 0.7mm) packages by adding versions operating at three voltages 3V, 6V, 9V at 0.5W and two ...
Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd has launched the Shwo F-ELB high-power LED series, the latest and most powerful update to its existing high-power and bright Shwo LED Series. F-ELB LEDs features flip-chip technology to enable ...