The automotive LIDAR (light detection and ranging) system market is growing from $230m in 2016 to $2.5bn in 2026, with LIDAR semiconductor revenue rising from $103m to $1.8bn, according to a report by IHS Markit. The current generation of ...
Tags: semiconductor, cameras
At the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp unveiled a silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
Tags: Power Device, Mitsubishi, SiC Mosfet
Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA (which makes high-power semiconductor laser components) has announced the commercial availability of its actively cooled laser bars, emitting 200W of ...
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has signed a definitive agreement for the newly founded private company Neptune 6 Ltd to acquire its subsidiary manufacturing site IR Newport Ltd in Newport, Wales, UK. The deal is expected to ...
To keep pace with the dramatic size and weight reductions in laptop designs over the last 10 years, Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched what it claims is the smallest 65W USB-PD (Type C) adapter reference design. ...
Tags: GaN Power, Laptop Adapter
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has filed a lawsuit, together with its affiliate Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, in the US District Court for the Central District of California asserting that Archipelago Lighting Inc is selling ...
Tags: LED bulb, LED packaging
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to expand its facilities for producing high-quality-grade silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers for power devices - which have already been marketed under the trade name High-Grade Epi (HGE) - ...
Tags: SiC power devices, semiconductors
Evatec Ltd of Trübbach, Switzerland (which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for advanced packaging, power device, MEMS, optoelectronics, wireless communication and photonics applications) is setting up its own ...
Tags: Evatec, advanced packaging
As part of the Special Session program at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2017) in Cincinnati, OH (1–5 October), the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based ...
Tags: semiconductor, supply chain
Patent Portfolios--6th in the Semiconductor-Manufacturing Sector and 24th Overall Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator ...
Tags: Semiconductor, pending patents
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology firm Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland has reported repeat sales of automated P-300BV vacuum batch production systems to major Asian discrete device manufacturers. Even if the 300mm wafer size ...
Tags: LED lighting, MEMS
Applied Energy Systems (AES) of Malvern, PA, USA – which provides high- and ultra-high-purity gas delivery systems, services and solutions (including design, manufacturing, testing, installation, and field service) – has ...
Tags: gas delivery systems, Cylinder
PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private partners from the semiconductor industry, the US Department of Energy (DoE), national laboratories and academia — in early August selected Navitas ...
Tags: PowerAmerica, Fast Chargers
The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $30m in funding for 21 projects as part of the CIRCUITS program (‘Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies ...
Tags: WBG devices, electronics devices
ROHM Semiconductor of Kyoto, Japan has launched what it claims is the industry’s smallest class (1608 size) of two-color chip LEDs. The SML-D22MUW also features a special design that is said to improve reliability along with a ...