According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
Tags: SiC Market, power electronics
Prices for mobile DRAM memory are set to fall substantially due to excess smartphone inventory, according to sources at memory makers. Disappointing smartphone sales have led to high levels of inventory in the supply chain, said the ...
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The scale of the Chinese LED package market grew 19% year on year to US$8.6 billion in 2014, according to the 2015 Chinese LED Industry Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. The growth of the Chinese LED package market will ...
Tags: LED package, LED lighting
The New Zealand Government has launched a new initiative to supply recycling bins at retail outlets to enable consumers to dump the used soft plastic bags for recycling. Initially put on a pilot mode at New World, PAK'nSAVE and The ...
Analog Devices Inc (ADI) of Norwood, MA, USA (which provides ICs for analog and digital signal processing applications) has launched the HMC1127 and HMC1126 MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit) distributed power amplifiers, based ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Analog Devices, MMIC pHEMT
Auto-ID solutions provider SATO has launched a new lineup of industrial label printers for basic, lower volume applications in retail, healthcare, manufacturing and logistics sectors. The Argox X-2300E 4" 203dpi thermal transfer printer, ...
Snack products maker Diamond Foods has opened a new innovation center in Salem, Oregon, in order to bolster its product development capabilities. The new 7,000ft2 center located next to the Kettle Brand potato chip facility houses R&D ...
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China’s LED package market grew 19% Year-on-Year (YoY) to US $8.6 billion in 2014, according to LEDinside’s 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report. The lighting market has been the major growth momentum for the ...
Tags: LED package, LED Chip, LED products, LED applications
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has launched the EPC2107 (100V) and ...
Tags: electronic components, semiconductor, EGaN Power, wireless power transfer
For fiscal third-quarter 2015 (ended 31 May), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $3.5m, down 23% on $4.6m both last quarter and a year ago but at the mid-point of the $3-4m guidance range. ...
Tags: SemiLEDs, LED lighting
Lumileds has introduced the next-generation LUXEON CoB Core Range as it continues to roll out chip-on-board (CoB) LEDs with higher efficacy and flux combinations. With the Gen 2 products, the LUXEON CoB Core Range now delivers an average of ...
For a third consecutive year, EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has earned all three awards from VLSIresearch Inc's annual ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XLamp XHP35 family of LEDs, which yields 50% more light output than Cree's previous highest-performing single-die LED, setting a new performance standard for the 3.5mm footprint. Built on ...
Tags: Cree, single-die LED, LED Light
Net revenues slipped 6 per cent year over year on a reported basis at denim jeans marketer Levi Strauss & Co. for the second quarter ended May 31, 2015. Net revenues declined six per cent to $1.01 billion on a reported basis in the second ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that an MDS-100 MicroDie Singulator plasma dicing system has been ordered by a global LED maker for high-volume LED production. The manufacturer produces LEDs ...
Tags: LED light, LED lamp, LED panel, Plasma-Therm