Continuing strength in China and a resurgent US economy are combining to drive accelerated growth in the worldwide market for semiconductors used in industrial applications in 2014, according to IHS. Global market revenues for industrial ...
Tags: industrial semiconductors, Global market revenues, Lights
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has appointed Darren Ma as VP & chief financial officer. Ma replaces Curt Sacks, who ...
Tags: fiber-optic, wireless networks, Electronics
China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker San'an Optoelectronics, due to subsidies of CNY1.0 billion (US$163 million) offered and orders worth CNY3.0 billion arranged from the government of Xiamen City, southeastern China, will set up ...
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Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) plans to expand its annual production capacity for monocrystalline silicon solar cells by 350MWp from 500MWp currently to 850MWp in 2015 and is likely to set ...
Cavendish Kinetics of San Jose CA, USA, which provides RF MEMS tuning solutions for mobile and wearable wireless devices, has closed a $7m funding round, co-led by Tallwood Venture Capital and Wellington Partners, with participation from ...
Tags: MEMS, LTE Smartphones, Electronics
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT of Aachen, Germany has worked with RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Physics (IA) to develop an analysis technology that, for the first time it is claimed, allows the structural ...
Tags: LED light, Laser system
For third-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $8m (at the bottom of the $8-12m ...
Tags: 2-Inch Sapphire, Electronics
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, is exhibiting at the Electronica 2014 trade fair in Munich, Germany ...
Tags: GaN Systems, semiconductors
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 (to 3 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $718.2m, up 22% on $587m last quarter and 51% on $477m a year ...
Tags: Skyworks, semiconductors
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 September 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $89.2m (at the high end of the $83-91m ...
For third-quarter 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $114.4m, down 16% on $136.6m last quarter but up 5% on $108.6m a year ago. “We reported ...
Tags: 5N Plus, chemical products
At the 11th China International Forum on Solid State Lighting (SSL CHINA 2014) in Guangzhou (6-8 November), deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has received the ‘Award of Outstanding Achievement for Global SSL ...
Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, the Hi-Q-LED project has made advances with green LEDs, diminishing the ‘green ...
Semiconductor materials suppliers expect demand for high-end packaging to remain strong and buoy their sales in the fourth quarter of 2014. Ampoc Fareast and Niching Industrial have both indicated clear order visibility through the end of ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Packaging
Researchers based in Singapore and Turkey have been developing a hole accelerator structure with a view to improving the performance of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Zi-Hui Zhang et al, Appl. ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, InGaN