Exagan of Grenoble, France, a gallium nitride (GaN) technology start-up that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, has raised €5.7m in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN switching device
Germany-based semiconductor equipment firm Suss MicroTec and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have joined hands for conducting research on nanotechnology, bio-medical and semiconductor 3D packaging. Under the arrangement, a ...
Tags: Suss Microtec, 3D Packaging
IAR Embedded Workbench and the new S32K MCUs will offer developers new possibilities to meet increasing demands for high performance and functional safety in the automotive market. IAR Systems announces extensive development tools support ...
Tags: IAR Systems, Freescale S32K
As the China government continues to pour money into fostering local supply chains in terms of capacity and technology, Taiwan makers are starting to feel the heat, and as a result are calling on the Taiwan government to increase support ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Panel Industry
China has begun to implement its investment plans aiming to boost development of the local semiconductor industry, and will inject a total of CNY600 billion (US$19.4 billion) into the industry over the next five years, according to industry ...
Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
Tags: GaN SiC, Power electronics
The infrared (IR) LED market for surveillance applications will grow from $94m in 2014 to $120m in 2015, according to '2Q15 Gold Member Report - 2015 Global LED Supply and Demand Market' from LEDinside (a division of TrendForce). ...
A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...
Tags: IBM III-Vs-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics, IBM
Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...
Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) has introduced the G2020 Series, its latest three-phase uninterruptible power system (UPS), in which silicon carbide (SiC) power modules in a three-level design enable 98%-efficient power protection ...
Tags: Toshiba SiC power modules, Electrical, Electronics, UPS
Driven by technology innovations, silicon-based power electronics will continue their domination of the fastest-growing and largest markets, allowing silicon to maintain an 87% market share, worth $20bn by 2024, and constraining ...
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has launched new LED packages for the automotive lighting segment to further strengthen its presence in automotive LED lighting. Since 2011, the firm has developed LED packages for the automotive ...
Plextek RF Integration of Great Chesterford, near Cambridge, UK, which designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, says that its CEO Liam Devlin is presenting the paper 'Designing GaN PA MMICs' in the Microwave, ...
Tags: Plextek, Microwave Circuit
NXP Semiconductors N.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands has agreed to sell its RF Power business for $1.8bn to Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital, a subsidiary of China state-owned investment company JIC Capital). NXP's RF Power ...
Tags: RF Power Business, JAC
The Taiwan Cabinet plans to roll out the Taiwanese version of “Industry 4.0 Plan” this June just shortly after such plan had been publicized on TV to be part of China's official program, with the aim to help the island's ...