For first-quarter 2013, First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to 29 March), analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $425.2m (split 40% in linear products ...
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Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
ABB—a global player in electric power and automation—is acquiring Los Gatos Research (LGR) of Mountain View, Calif., to add a new line of gas analyzers to its measurement business. “LGR fills a gap in our technology ...
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China based - Xianglu Petrochemical plans to start a new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant by the end of the third quarter. “Trial runs at the plant located at Fujian province, China are planned to be undertaken in the ...
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For first-quarter 2013, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $22.4m, down 5% on $23.5m a year ago but up 18% on $18.9m last quarter. Fiscal Q1/2012 Q2/2012 Q3/2012 Q4/2012 Q1/2013 Revenue $23.5m $25.2m $20.8m $18.9m $22.4m ...
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Output of global yarn production plummeted in Q4/2012 in comparison to the previous one due to lower output in Asia, North and South America, while production in Europe increased. Also year-on-year global yarn production dropped as a ...
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Traditionally Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED devices are produced on either sapphire or silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, due to the good crystal lattice matching between the materials and the GaN, with typically 2” or 4” diameter ...
G&K Services, Inc. reported operating results for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2013, which ended on March 30, 2013. Third quarter revenue grew by 3.6 percent to $226.6 million, up from $218.8 million in last year’s third ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
For first-quarter 2013, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported revenue of €2.7m, down 56% on €6.2m a year ago and down ...
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For first-quarter 2013, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE, Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €40.2m, down 4% on €42m a year ago and 48% on last quarter’s €77.5m. Fiscal Q1/2012 Q2/2012 Q3/2012 Q4/2012 ...
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In first-quarter 2013, mobile phone shipments grew 12% year-on-year (YoY) to an estimated 405 million handsets, according to market analyst firm ABI Research’s Mobile Handset Markets database service. However, this was due to the ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which is a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, will exhibit at PCIM Europe 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany ...
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For first-quarter 2013, Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has reported ...
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