Spending on RF high-power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets continues to flatten out in 2017, despite the fact that the overall market hit well over $1.4bn in 2016, according to ABI Research. While certain market and ...
Tags: GaN, High-Power Semiconductor
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has unveiled a development kit targeted at helping ...
Tags: RF Systems, power transistors
The market for global diamond materials for semiconductor applications will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.26% over 2017-2021, forecasts a report by Technavio. Diamond materials for semiconductors are crystalline or ...
Tags: Diamond, diamond materials
After its Topled became the first surface-mountable LED more than 25 years ago, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has now launched the latest generation, the Topled E1608, with a package smaller than its predecessor ...
Tags: Osram LEDs, LED Shrinks Package
The global UV LED market will increase from $288m in 2017 to $526m in 2020 while it rises at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34% during 2015-2020, projects LEDinside (a division of TrendForce). UV LEDs are used particularly in ...
Tags: UV LED, LED package
Lighting manufacturer Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany has agreed to acquire LED Engin Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which develops and makes LED emitters, optics components and light source modules in a high-lumen-density, multi-die package for ...
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (E6), a member of the De Beers Group of Companies, has developed a new thermal grade of synthetic diamond grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Diafilm ETC700 is both ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched the SKY66113-11, its newest 2.4GHz fully integrated RF front-end module (FEM) supporting Bluetooth Low Energy/Bluetooth ...
Tags: Skyworks, Front-End Module
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that, at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in San Francisco on 25 May during the IEEE Vision, Innovations, and Challenges (IEEE VIC) Summit, George Craford (the Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow) will ...
At the LightFair International 2017 trade show in Philadelphia (9-11 May), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has showcased the Oslon Square Hyper Red LED prototype for promoting healthy plant growth. This ...
Tags: High-Power LED, Lighting
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has qualified the first of multiple AIX G5 C planetary systems for manufacturing gallium nitride ...
Tags: Osram Opto, GaN LED
For first-quarter 2017, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $94.4m, rebounding further from $93.6m last quarter and up 21% on $78m a year ago. This is above ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED industry
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications – says that its transistors are being used by power ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Solar Power Inverter
The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has introduced a new series of AllnGaP-on-Si super red, red, amber and yellow ultrabright LEDs in compact untinted surface-mount packages with dome lenses. ...
Tags: LED, LCD switches
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the Oslon Black Flat S series, which is claimed to provide the first single-LED solution for adaptive front-lighting systems (AFS) in vehicles. AFS enables the direction of ...
Tags: Osram, Automotive Lighting