On July 12, Weichai Power held a grand ceremony at its Land King Production Base No. 2 Factory to celebrate the 10,000th unit WP13 engine going off the production line. Just making its debut in 2015, WP13 is a powerful engine with high ...
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Hertz Global Holdings has announced that its Hertz Green Collection - known as Green Traveler Collection in the US - has been launched in Mexico with a fleet of 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles. Hertz Mexico is the first car rental ...
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The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched what it claims is the fastest gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Wolfspeed Power & RF division of Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA for $850m in cash (about €740m). The deal also includes the related silicon ...
Plextek RFI Ltd of Cambridge, UK, which designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, has announced a new reference design for a gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifier (PA) monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
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Nissan Motor has introduced driver-assist features that allow its new Serena minivan to manage highway driving on its own. More than 1.5 million Serenas have been sold since it first went on sale in 1991. The new Serena comes equipped ...
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Bringg has partnered with alcohol on-demand delivery service Booze-up to enable lightning fast delivery in the UK. Booze-Up official Ashleigh Fletcher said: "Bringg enables Booze Up to offer a more efficient delivery service by means of ...
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has entered into a collaborative alliance via a $1.1m grant with Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA to develop Scalable, Agile, Multimode, Front End Technology (SAMFET) for the Army's Next Generation ...
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Japan's Rohm Semiconductor has announced the availability of a new 1700V silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) optimized for industrial applications, including manufacturing equipment and ...
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The global light-emitting diode (LED) packaging equipment market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 2% to more than $656m in 2020, according to a report by Technavio. The report considers the emergence of COB ...
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Volkswagen has taken a major step towards increased environmental sustainability of production at its facilities around the world. At present vehicles and components are now manufactured in a way which is 25 percent more environmentally ...
BorgWarner delivers its pre-emptive on-demand transfer case for multiple Jaguar models. Initially available for the new Jaguar XF, BorgWarner will also provide the all-wheel drive (AWD) technology for the Jaguar XE and F-PACE crossover. ...
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Global food giant Mars has announced that it would invest £23m to expand its King's Lynn facility in the UK to meet the growing demand for Uncle Ben's Ready to Heat rice. The company plans to make the investment to add a new ...
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Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
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