Carefour has recalled boxes of ‘beng-beng’ Chocolate Bars from Asian grocery stores in Australia due to the presence of undeclared milk and soy, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The product, a ...
Tags: Chocolate Bars, Allergy Concerns
As LED lighting becomes an $80bn industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers that LEDs are made from will grow to $4bn in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epiwafers are currently gallium nitride ...
Tags: LEDs, Epiwafers, LED Lighting
China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has quit production of sapphire ingots and will sell two factories together with production equipment in eastern China to Taiwan-based sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology. GCL Poly's suspended ...
Tags: GCL-Poly, China, Sapphire Ingot
For the second consecutive year, Brewer Science Inc of Rolla, MO, USA, which provides specialty materials, integrated processes, and laboratory-scale wafer processing equipment, has been named in the Top Workplaces Survey conducted by the ...
Peking and Xidian universities have jointly developed a self-terminating gate recess etch that allows them to produce aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) normally-off metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with positive ...
Tags: Electrical, gate recess etch
Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd of Yokohama, Japan has released the MB51T008A, a silicon-substrate-based, gallium-nitride (GaN) power device with a drain-source breakdown voltage (V(BR)DSS) of 150V. Features of the MB51T008A include: (1) ...
Tags: Power Device, Electrical
SurplusGLOBAL, Inc. participated in Semicon West 2013. SurplusGLOBAL CEO, Bruce Kim forecasted the increase in demand in the Asia Secondary Equipment Market. Bruce Kim, CEO of SurplusGLOBAL, has participated in Semicon West for the past ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Semiconductor Equipment, Electrical, Electronics
At the SEMICON West 2013 event in San Francisco (9-11 July), Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) has announced that it has expanded its global manufacturing ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, says it has achieved strong revenue growth and expanded its headcount in Q1/2013. The firm attributes this to continuing demand for its flexible ...
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According to Xiaojuan Shi, technology industry analyst from Morgan Stanley Securities, Osram announced that it will re-focus on LED solid-state lighting in order to achieve long-term goals of smart lighting. OSRAM's outsourcing order is ...
Tags: LED Giants, LED
ClassOne Equipment (which supplies refurbished wafer fabrication equipment) says that, in response to increased market demand, it has made significant investments in the growth and expansion of its Wet Processing Division. A Design and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Fabless envelope tracking (ET) semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK and specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan-based solar wafer firm Eversol has announced that operations at a 1.5MW ground-mount solar power plant in Hiroshima, Japan, a project with Japan's West Holdings, kicked off in June 2013 with a daily power generation of up to ...
Tags: solar, Lights, Lighting, Electrical, Electronics
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, has announced the commercial availability ...
Tags: Electrical, Kyma Technologies
Prices for sapphire ingots in the third quarter of 2013 are expected to increase by 15-20% on quarter mainly due to growing demand from LED makers and China-based smartphone vendors, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Prices ...
Tags: Taiwan, smartphone, Consumer Electronics