At the Touch Taiwan 2018 exhibition at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (29-31 August), vertically integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan is unveiling its micro-LED chip capabilities (with a die size ...
Tags: Micro-LED, RGB Display Module
Silvaco Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides electronic design automation and IP software tools for process and device development), Purdue University and Purdue Research Foundation have formed a partnership to extend Moore’s ...
Tags: TCAD tools
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XLamp XP-G3 S Line LED, an extension of the XLamp XP-G3 range that delivers high-power LED technology optimized for long-lifetime, high-power general ...
Sanan Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (Sanan IC) of Xiamen City, Fujian province (China’s first 6-inch pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry) has announced its entry into the North American, European and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets ...
Tags: integrated passive device, filters
Silanna Group of Brisbane, Australia (which was founded in 2006 to develop and productize advanced technologies) is partnering with the University of Adelaide to establish an advanced manufacturing research facility on its campus, ...
Tags: Silanna's products, semiconductor
For fiscal first-quarter 2019 (ended 30 June 2018), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $692.7m, up 4.1% on $665.4m ...
Tags: Qorvo, Mobile Demand
Two teams at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA are being funded to investigate the use of gallium nitride (GaN) to enhance space exploration. Engineer Jean-Marie ...
Tags: GaN transistors, GaN Crystal
On 10 August, a jury of six men and six women rendered a verdict in favor of LED maker Lumileds LLC of San Jose, CA, USA, finding that a Chinese competitor stole trade secrets related to Lumileds core technology for making high-power LEDs ...
Tags: LED, LED technology
South Korean UV LED maker Seoul Viosys Co Ltd has launched the UV WICOP module, which combines Seoul Semiconductor’s WICOP LEDs with compact and high-efficiency technology. Designed using a single chip and phosphor only (without any ...
Tags: UV WICOP module, LED
For second-quarter 2018, POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada and San Jose, CA, USA — a designer and manufacturer of optoelectronic devices, including light sources, passive waveguides and photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for ...
Tags: photonic product, POET
PowerSphyr Inc of Danville, CA, USA – which delivers end-to-end wireless power charging solutions – and GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (a fabless developer of gallium nitride-based power switching semiconductors for ...
Murata company pSemi Corp of San Diego, CA, USA (formerly Peregrine Semiconductor Corp) – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has introduced what it clams is ...
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a subsidiary of Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd of Beijing, China since 2014) says that its solar cells have powered a CubeSat mission by Twiggs Space Lab LLC (TSL), NearSpace Launch Inc (NSL) and their ...
Tags: solar cell, Alta Device
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which makes analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has signed a definitive agreement to buy private fabless semiconductor supplier Avnera Corp of Beaverton, OR, USA, a developer of analog system ...
Tags: analog, semiconductors
For second-quarter 2018, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $157.8m, down slightly on $158.6m last quarter but up 40.6% on $112.2m a year ago. ...