Aixtron SE (FSE: AIX; NASDAQ: AIXG), the Germany-based manufacturer of deposition equipment for LED materials growth, has appointed a new CEO. Paul Hyland, the company’s current president and CEO, will leave effective February 28, ...
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Silicon photonics firm Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the communications, computing, sensing and detection markets, says that, at its ...
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Coming on the heel of the resignations from Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the supervisory board) of Aixtron, the company has announced that Paul Hyland, ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced that its president and chief executive officer Paul Hyland will leave the firm by mutual agreement with effect from 28 February 2013, for personal reasons. Martin ...
Emerging Irish fabless semiconductor technology company Ikon Semiconductor this week revealed a new integrated circuit (IC) design that could prove vital to the growing global LED lighting industry. Ikon’s new IC was unveiled at the ...
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The inverter market grew significantly to $45bn in 2012, and will reach $71bn by 2020, according to Yole Développement in a report on ‘Inverter market trends for 2013-2020 and major technology changes’. “More than ...
Optical networking and associated semiconductor technology firm JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported a modest improvement in sales performance during its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (ended 29 December 2012). On a non-GAAP basis, net ...
CATRENE, the EUREKA Cluster for European co-operative R&D in micro and nanoelectronics (Σ! 4140), opens its 6th Call for project proposals. The call will be open from 04 February 2013 until 02 April 2013. The labelling of projects, ...
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Aixtron has announced two changes to its supervisory board. Dr Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the supervisory board) have informed the management board of their ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced two changes to its supervisory board. Dr Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the ...
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Qualcomm Technologies is working with Europe's largest semiconductor technology centre, Imec on advanced CMOS logic and memory technologies including MRAM. Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) is a non-volatile memory which could be a low leakage ...
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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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Osram has signed a contract with the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee to build a new assembly plant in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the new backend facility starting in late 2013; with ...
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A glut of manufacturing capacity and near-collapse in rare earth metal prices is driving down the cost and hence encouraging the rapid take-up of LED lighting. The Financial Times believes LED technology is reaching a tipping point, ...
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With the purchase of Elpida Memory, the third-largest DRAM maker, Micron Technology not only becomes a Tier 1 supplier, but also catapults itself into the mobile space as a supplier to leading smartphone and tablet makers, including Apple. ...
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