Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a designer, developer and supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) has appointed Bryan Ingram, senior VP & ...
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Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has announced the development of a gallium nitride (GaN)-based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V that enables stable switching operations. Shipment of evaluation samples began in March. The ...
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GlobalFoundries has showcased a new technology that allows 3D stacking of chips for use in mobile and consumer applications. The company uses the 20nm-LPM process technology to manufacture its first functional 20nm silicon wafers with ...
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MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and Sidense Corp., a developer of logic non-volatile memory one-time programmable (OTP) memory IP cores today ...
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The American population's voracious appetite for digitized information and ccontinues unabated, creating a groundswell of consumers who move seamlessly between smartphones, tablets and laptops to consume digital content, often using ...
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Cadence Design Systems has agreed to acquire configurable processor IP company Tensilica for around $380m in cash. The acquisition will add processor IP used in mobile, infrastructure, in-car entertainment and consumer applications, ...
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BASF is opening a new R&D laboratory and an application technology centre for battery materials in Amagasaki, Japan, which will focus on researching electrolytes and electrode materials for high-performance batteries. “Our aim is to ...
TabTimes and the Application Developers Alliance are partnering to launch THE TABBY AWARDS, which will begin accepting submissions today. TabTimes is the only media company focusing on the tablet business, and the Application Developers ...
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"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that Switzerland’s école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has ordered a NEXUS ion beam etch (IBE) system, ...
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Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), estimates that its engineered substrates (which are used in ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan has launched two new 0.06W products to its ultraviolet (UV) LED portfolio. The new series of 3020 PLCC UV LEDs and 5mm through-hole lamp-type UV LEDs incorporate ...
MEMS Industry Group (MIG), a global industry organization with more than 150 member‐companies and partners, today announced a micro‐electromechanical systems (MEMS) conference track at the 2013 International CES. Featuring a ...
Barclays will reduce its IT spending by billions of pounds through the development of its own cloud-based technology,The Sunday Times claims. The Sunday Times reported that the firm could reduce costs by 90 per cent but failed to cite any ...
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