A Taiwan delegtation formed by government officials, researchers and industry players recently concluded a six-day visit in Japan, where they probed the possibilities of forming strategic alliances between the two countries. According to ...
Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics has obtained orders from the largest Russia-based LED packager and lighting maker, with monthly shipments exceeding one million LED chips, while Taiwan-based LED packaging ...
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Professor Yue Kuo of the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University has fabricated a new type of LED, capable of producing a wide spectrum light while operating for long periods of time at atmospheric ...
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The company has invested about €7.5 billion since it set up its Ireland base in 1989. Intel has secured planning approval from Ireland's planning agency to build a $4bn chip manufacturing plant in Leixlip, near Dublin. The new ...
Brewer Science Inc of Rolla, MO, USA, which provides specialty materials, integrated processes, and laboratory-scale wafer processing equipment, plans to build a high-volume manufacturing facility in Vichy, MO, to produce materials for ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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LEDs are “going mainstream but are still not yet a mature commodity”, according to market analyst Yole Développement in its latest ‘LED Packaging’ report. The analyst determines that the combination of growth ...
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Cutting LED packaging cost drives new designs 22 Jan 2013 Optimistic sector forecast for 2013 published. LEDs are “going mainstream but are still not yet a mature commodity”, according to market analyst Yole ...
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Various countries have banned the use of incandescent light bulbs, paving the way for LED lighting to shine. However, due to numerous newcomers in China taking up massive capacity expansion, the LED market has been in severe oversupply, ...
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Many companies who manufacture electronics require contingency plans for their products. If a memory device is discontinued, we switch to a competing device. If our circuit board supplier goes bankrupt, we have an alternate vendor on speed ...
Led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, a team of researchers in the Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) has raised the energy conversion efficiency record for copper ...
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Mesuro Ltd, a spin-off from Cardiff University’s Centre for High Frequency Engineering that provides RF testing equipment and device measurement services, says that a £700,000 funding round completed during the second half of ...
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TSMC had Q4 revenues of $4.5bn for a profit of $1.4bn. Revenue was 25% up on Qa2011 and profit was up 32% on Q4 2011. Compared to Q32012, Q4 was a 7.1% decrease in revenue and a 15.7% decrease in profit. Gross margin for the quarter was ...
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Imec and PVA Tepla claim a breakthrough in the detection of through-silicon via (TSV) voids in 3D stacked IC technology. They used GHz scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) technology to detect TSV voids at wafer-level after TSV Copper ...
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The HB-LED Standards Committee of industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has approved its first standard ‘SEMI HB1: Specifications for Sapphire Wafers Intended for Use for Manufacturing High ...
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