Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has formed a cloud networks group to strengthen ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2014 (to end-June), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $44.6m, up 5.5% on ...
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The need for high-power, high-frequency transistors is increasing steadily, commensurate with the huge demand for wireless telecommunications, notes market research firm Yole Développement in its report ‘RF GaN Technology & ...
Beijing bureaucrats are all exhausted just by chasing a sputtering economy and trying to keep it moving. Some fine-tuning here, a bit of state spending there – all with the aim of meeting a GDP growth target. But if they want to stop ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that its DTN-X platform has been deployed ...
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In late March, vertically integrated photonics product maker Thorlabs Inc of Newton, NJ, USA announced a greenfield initiative to start the new business unit Thorlabs Ultrafast Optoelectronics (Thorlabs-UFO). The team will focus on ...
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Kuwait's al-Kharafi family, the owners of Americana food brand, is reportedly seeking to sell the food unit. Currently, no formal process has commenced for the proposed sale; however, the owners are working with financial advisory firm ...
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High-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA says that the interface of its recently released zCD active optical cable (AOC) interconnect solution has been selected by the CDFP MSA (multi-source agreement) as the ...
A small band of upstarts is chipping away at Google's mighty Android, hoping one day to overthrow the system that runs eight in 10 smartphones sold worldwide. Mozilla's Firefox OS and the Samsung-promoted Tizen staked a small claim to the ...
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Nokia is targeting emerging markets with three low-cost smartphones that use Google's Android operating system rather than the Windows Phone software from Microsoft, which is about to take over Nokia's handset business. Nokia will ditch ...
Philips has partnered with communications technology provider Ericsson to jointly launch a connected LED street lighting model. The partnership will see the lighting manufacturer incorporate mobile telecoms equipment from Ericsson into ...
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The UK’s University of Leeds has fabricated what is claimed to be the world’s most powerful terahertz (THz) laser chip, exceeding 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade laser (QCL) (Lianhe Li et al, ‘Terahertz quantum ...
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Picometrix LLC, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc (API) of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation), has been chosen to ...
For its fiscal second-quarter 2014 (ended 28 December 2013), JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported revenue of $447.6m, up 4% on $429m last quarter and $429.4m a year ago (and above the guidance of $420-440m). By sector, 44.2% of revenue ...
Riber S.A.of Bezons,France,which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells,has received a major order for the modernization of the fleet of R&D and pilot production MBE systems used ...
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