At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and provides gallium nitride-based power conversion ...
Tags: APEC 2015, GaN Power Devices
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has teamed with Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan (its parent ...
Tags: Semiconductor, integrated circuits
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Taiwanese group Episil Semiconductor Wafer Inc has put into operation an AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor for silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxy. ...
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Transphorm Inc, Transphorm Japan Inc, and Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd have announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor group's CMOS-compatible, 150mm wafer fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, has started mass production of gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: GaN Power Devices, Electrical
Sensirion, the Sensor Co. Mouser Electronics, Inc. announces that they have entered into a global distribution agreement with Sensirion AG. Mouser Electronics, Inc., a leading global distributor and developer’s top choice for ...
Nikon has announced a new touchscreen-equipped DSLR camera, the Nikon D5500, at CES 2015. The D5500 is most notable for being a DSLR with a touchscreen display that can be swivelled and flipped 360 degrees. Yes, the Canon EOS 700D pulled ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced a new addition for the more than 30,000 entertainment, content and creative professionals that attend the International CES®. New for the 2015 CES is C Space, a central ...
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Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has expanded its family of 802.11ac 5GHz WiFi power amplifiers (which includes the AWL5905 launched in May 2013 and the AWL5910 launched in May ...
The average retail price for consumer digital still cameras (DSCs) in the UK, Germany, US, Japan and China in December hit US$366, having risen for the third consecutive month. The price increase was mainly because CMOS-based DSC average ...
Tags: Digital Camera, CMOS, DSC
Murata Electronics North America Inc, a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan has acquired all outstanding shares of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA for $12.50 per share. Peregrine will continue to ...
HTC is going to release a second-gen version of its RE action camera next year, new reports reveal. According to CNA, Jack Tong, President of HTC North Asia, revealed that the next-gen device would be aimed at the mass consumer market. ...
Tags: HTC, Consumer Electronics
Keysight Technologies Inc of Santa Rosa, CA, USA (spun off as a subsidiary of Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies Inc in August), which provides electronic measurement instruments and systems and related software, software design tools ...
Envelope tracking (ET) adoption rates will soar, according to a new forecast analysis published by fabless envelope tracking (ET) semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK. The firm’s research predicts that the total market for ...
Raytheon UK's semiconductor business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has embarked on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project, in conjunction with researchers at Newcastle University, to enhance the performance of silicon carbide ...
For August, Taiwan's WIN Semiconductors Corp (the world's largest pure-play gallium arsenide foundry) has reported revenue of NT$1.04bn (US$34.5m) - its highest revenue in the past 12 months - up 7.41% on July and up 23.45% on a year ago. ...