Epistar,the Taiwan-based company that is ranked as one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs,has become the latest major producer to hint at a transfer to a potentially much cheaper silicon platform. Currently the ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors has improved its thin-film infrared chip technology to achieve high performance in the laboratory,including 72%wall-plug efficiency and 67%external quantum efficiency.Osram Opto Semiconductors has reported the ...
Cynora today unveiled a new flexible OLED prototype,demonstrating yet again the huge potential of OLED technology.One key aspect that sets organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs)apart from conventional LEDs,is that they are two-dimensional ...
Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and next-generation smartphones launch later this year will accelerate semiconductor revenue growth in 2013 and beyond Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to grow by 4.6% in 2012 to $315bn ...
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The European semiconductor industry is missing the point,Maria Marced,President of TSMC Europe,told Future Horizons'IEF2012 meeting in Bratislava this morning. "Europe is shifting-changing towards analogue mixed signal rather than digital ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville,NC,USA has reported the results of an ongoing collaboration with development partner Tokuyama Corp of Tokyo,Japan that has demonstrated UV-C LEDs with exceptional output power and improvements in internal quantum ...
Intel retained the market leadership in terms of revenues Worldwide semiconductor industry achieved a slower growth in 2011 when compared to 2010 primarily due to the macroeconomic uncertainties in the US and Europe, the earthquake and ...
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June sales 2% declined compared to corresponding month in 2011. The worldwide sales of semiconductors declined 0.1% in June to $24.38 compared to $24.40bn in May, according to a report. According to the US based Semiconductor Industry ...
Mobile and media consumption device markets contributed for the hybridisation trend Hybrid processors that include two or more different types of cores make up half of the $111bn processor market revenue, according to a new report by IMS ...
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Engineering, electronics and high-tech giant Siemens AG of Munich, Germany has announced its intention to spin-off 80.5% of its subsidiary Osram (the world's second biggest lighting manufacturer, whose subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors ...
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Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania officially opened its new MBE and laser diode production facility on December 5. Established by brothers Augustinas Vizbaras, Kristijonas Vizbaras and Dominykas Vizbaras in 2011, the firm ...
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Power management semiconductor market to rise 9.7% during Q2 The global power management semiconductor market is expected to report 9.7% rise during the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12) to $7.9bn when compared to $7.2bn during the first ...
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The firm has already outsourced production of other products as part of huge efficiency drive, Japanese company Hitachi has confirmed that it will discontinue production of semiconductors used in information and telecommunication ...
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Although 2012 turned out to be an off year for RF power amplifiers and devices for wireless infrastructure,the market still held its own,says market analyst firm ABI Research in its report'RF Power Amplifiers'.This year should be viewed as ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has received its first purchase order for a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) CRIUS MOCVD system from Dynax Semiconductor Inc of China. Aixtron says it will be the first system in ...
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