Apple’s respected technology chief, Bob Mansfield is no longer part of the company’s executive leadership team, though he remains at Apple “working on special projects” for CEO Tim Cook. Mansfield’s photo and ...
Tags: Apple Tech, Senior Exec Team
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is Continental's Supplier of the Year 2012. Each year Continental's Automotive Group identifies its best partners from more than 900 strategic suppliers and presents a total of 13 performance awards in five ...
Tags: LED, OSRAM, Lights, Lighting, automotive interior lighting
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) researchers report considerable improvement in device performance of polymer-based optoelectronic devices. Published in Nature Photonics, the new plasmonic material, can be applied ...
Tags: Polymer LEDs, Solar Cells
In a trading update for first-half 201, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says it expects first-half performance to be ahead of market expectations, with revenue approaching £63m, EBITDA (earnings ...
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LED forecast plays down GaN-on-silicon impact 23 Jul 2013 Sapphire is set to remain the entrenched wafer technology for solid-state lighting, say analysts at Lux Research. Despite the transition of LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) ...
On July 16, Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, a leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing high-performance semiconductors, announced a new programmable multi-output LED driver for LCD backlighting, instrument clusters, and daytime running ...
Tags: LED Automotive Driver, LED, Electrical, Electronics
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies) has introduced a new integrated SPDT switch and Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), with bypass mode, for WLAN 802.11a,n,ac network ...
Tags: M/A-COM, SPDT Switch, LNA
The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Semiconductors and Tsinghua University claim “the first proof-of-concept experimental demonstration of the current-driven pyramid array InGaN/GaN core-shell LEDs interconnected with ...
Tags: Pyramid-array LEDs, Graphene Electrodes, GaN, MOCVD
The alliance comprising top brands in lighting has endorsed the use of the ZigBee Light Link standard to ensure interoperability between connected lighting fixtures and controls in residential applications. The Connected Lighting Alliance ...
Tags: ZigBee Light Link, Connected Lighting Alliance, Residential Controls
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, says that it has started volume production of its RFX333 ...
A row is brewing over benchmarks used to assess the performance of smartphone semiconductors after one of the tools had to be revised following claims of discrepancies over its results. The AnTuTu benchmark, which is used on Android ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, says it has achieved strong revenue growth and expanded its headcount in Q1/2013. The firm attributes this to continuing demand for its flexible ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says has appointed Mouser Electronics Inc as a global distributor of its complete range of products, including its EPIC sensor and MAGIC GaN LEDs. Mike Scott, Mouser's vice president of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
LED and lighting industry players make news in new executive hires and distribution agreements, with Cree Lighting increasing its presence in Europe and Nualight appointing a new CEO. Major players in the LED and solid-state lighting ...
LED lighting has accomplished some great things since its introduction to the lighting market over the past few years. Sure LEDs were around before then, but the incandescent squeeze is what really prompted alternative forms of lighting to ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Natural Light