While growth in the LED industry came initially from small display applications and was furthered by LCD display applications, lower-than-expected adoption of LEDs in the TV market and the entry of several new players (mostly from Asia) in ...
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Taipei, Dec. 21, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is farming out chip-testing work to STATS ChipPAC Taiwan Co., Ltd. as its in-house testing capacity has been inundated by flooding orders for 28nm process foundry ...
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Unpatterned wafer defect inspection tools provide broad capability to enable critical infrastructure development Today KLA-Tencor Corporation(NASDAQ:KLAC)announced the installation of its first process control systems capable of handling ...
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Micron will soon buy Elpida for 200bn yen (about $2.5bn), of which 140bn yen will be used to pay off debts, says DRAMeXchange. As the Japanese memory maker currently owes 420bn yen, lenders will have to write off approximately 70% of the ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
Due to China’s strong policy support and huge market, Chinese LED market has always been a major focus of the industry. Recently China’s annual solid-state lighting product subsidy bidding process results have been announced. ...
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TSMC and UMC are offering discounts on 40nm and 60nm wafers starting in Septemer, according to The Taiwan Economic News. Despite high capacity utilization in the first half (TSMC reported it's fab utilization rate as 102%in Q2), Morris ...
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Rubicon Technology, a provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, reported that second quarter (ended June 30, 2012) revenue increased to US$17.0 million from US$10.2 million in the ...
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Taipei, Sept. 28, 2012 (CENS)--VIS Inc. has reportedly requested Dialog Semiconductor and Cirrus Logic, Apple's long-term suppliers of power management ICs and audio ICs, to distribute some foundry contracts to Vanguard International ...
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A meeting organized by the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center, has taken place to initiate the research project Low Energy Electronics Systems (LEES), which aims to develop cutting-edge technology to increase ...
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Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for precise measurement and control, has introduced updated specifications for its Model CRX-VF cryogen-free micro-manipulated probe ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system), nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has installed an EVG501 wafer bonding R&D system at Texas ...
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Merrimack, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired certain ...
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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), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire ...
Tags: RF, CMOS, Silicon On Sapphire, UltraCMOS, RFIC
Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has successfully tested silicon carbide (SiC) mixed-signal devices at temperatures up to 400°C. “Raytheon UK’s aim is to ...
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