This quarter, Plessey Semiconductors plans to sample its GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. Samples are due out in December with production sales beginning in March for both LED die and packaged devices. It is the culmination of a decade of ...
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NGK Insulators Ltd of Nagoya, Japan has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that significantly reduce defects and approximately double the luminous efficiency of green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over previous models. The GaN wafers ...
Taipei, Oct. 29, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) on Oct. 23 bought for over NT$3.2 billion (US$106 million) 14.32 hectares of land at the Jhunan Park, an extension of the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan, ...
Tags: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., chip, Intel, Samsung
Taipei,Sept.28,2012(CENS)--Green Energy Technology Inc.has recently received increased number of photovoltaics(PV)contracts from mainland China solar-system suppliers after the mainland's PV-equipment manufacturers were slapped with costly ...
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Two AU Optronics (AUO) subsidiaries, Lextar and Wellypower, are set to merge. According to David Su, chairman of Lextar, the only overlapping technology between the two firms is packaging. Wellypower currently has CCFL and SMD LED products ...
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OPEL appoints VP of technology as consultant on POET technology OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which makes high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) panels and solar tracker systems through its subsidiary OPEL ...
Tags: OPEL POET, Lights, Lighting, Lee Shepherd, appoints
With production overcapacity of 82%,solar panel manufacturers need to acquire innovative production equipment in order to cut costs,increase margins,and differentiate their products from less expensive Chinese rivals,says market analysis ...
IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said Sunday its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on ...
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Scientists at IBM have showcased computer chips featuring carbon nanotube technology,and apparently built with standard manufacturing techniques. This new approach,hopes IBM,will open up the way for commercial mass-production of carbon ...
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Tokyo-based chemical manufacturer Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has announced to split off and transfer its GaN LED epitaxial wafer and chip production business to its subsidiary TS Opto Co Ltd (which was founded at the end of September at SDK's ...
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Taipei, Oct. 25, 2012 (CENS)--Market research firm Gartner predicts Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to likely take over all of Apple's processor contracts from Samsung by 2014. During a recently held forum on semiconductor ...
Tags: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Apple's processor, Samsung
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Inotera Memories Inc. recently announced its board of directors has approved a proposal to increase investment in 30nm process with the aim of migrating all of its monthly capacity of 120,000 wafers to the ...
Tags: Inotera Memories Inc, 30nm process, chips for servers, chips, DRAM
Reeling from a glut of production capacity,makers of solar panels need to acquire innovative production equipment in order to cut costs,increase margins,and offer differentiated products,according to research released today byLux Research. ...
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At its latest board meeting,Tokyo-based chemical manufacturer Showa Denko K.K.(SDK)has decided to split off and transfer its gallium nitride(GaN)LED epitaxial wafer and chip production business to its subsidiary TS Opto Co Ltd(which was ...
Tags: SDK, GaN LEDs, Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd, chemical manufacture, TS Opto
DOE Cost Modeling Tool for Manufacturing LED Packages The US Department of Energy has released a common cost model for the manufacturing of LED packages. Developed by a DOE working group in response to feedback from previous DOE workshops ...
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