Pinkberry, a US-based yogurt retailer, has introduced its new frozen yogurt, Chocolate Hazelnut. The company has also paired Chocolate Hazelnut with new seasonal, gourmet toppings. The gourmet toppings include Chocolate Hazelnut Classic - ...
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Nestle's share price increased this morning (9 August) as the Kit-Kat maker booked an increase in first-half profit and reaffirmed its full-year guidance. The Swiss food giant reported an 8.9% increase in earnings of CHF5.12bn (US$5.26bn) ...
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The CAGR of the semiconductor market for 2011-16 will be double that of the preceding five years, says IC Insights. Memory will drive the accelerated growth rate. NAND flash is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 16.6% until 2016 and DRAM is ...
Tags: CAGR, Wireless Devices, Semiconductor, Market Conditions
For second-quarter 2012, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, has reported revenue of $17m, down 60% on $43m a ...
The US National Science Foundation(NSF)has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology(RIT) 1.2million dollars to develop,fabricate and test a new family of infrared detectors grown on silicon substrates by Raytheon Visions Systems(RVS)of ...
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Back-end facility in city of Wuxi represents an investment of more than €100 million by the German lighting giant. Osram, one of the world's leading lighting companies and a pioneer in the emerging market for solid-state lighting ...
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Cree and Rubicon announce financials,deliver positive news for the LED segment 08 Aug 2012 Cree reports 26%year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue while at LED sapphire substrate manufacturer Rubicon Technology,quarter-over-quarter ...
Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides optical profilers for micron-scale surface analysis, says that Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA has ordered multiple units of the Zeta-300 series optical profiler for ...
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Rubicon Technology has placed an order of multiple units of the Zeta 300 series optical profiler from San Jose based Zeta Instruments for its sapphire substrate and wafer production. The company will use the Zeta-300 series optical ...
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UK-based Plessey readies for volume chip production, while Germany's Azzurro Semiconductors gains support for move to larger wafers. GaN-on-silicon LED A disruptive approach to lowering the cost of solid-state lighting (SSL) with ...
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Toshiba plans silicon-based LED production; Azzurro installs Veeco MOCVD 31 Jul 2012 Veeco Instruments announced that Azzurro Semiconductors has commissioned a new Veeco MOCVD reactor for silicon-based LED production while Toshiba plans to ...
02 Aug 2012 German company will lead a new effort to shrink extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography resolution from 20nm to 14nm. EUV optics The optics giant Carl Zeiss is to lead a new project to improve the resolution of extreme ...
Tags: Zeiss, 7M, EUV optics project, 02 Aug 2012, from 20nm to 14nm
IQE expects revenue growth in second-half 2012 following Q2 recovery According to an interim trading update for first-half 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK expects to report first-half revenue of ...
Second-quarter 2012 revenues of Taiwan-based LED chipmakers climbed out of the trough with capacity utilization rates rising to 80-90%. The firms believe third-quarter 2012 capacity utilization rates to remain similar to the peak level seen ...
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UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has taken delivery of a CRIUS II-XL metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor (in 7x6-inch wafer configuration) from deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany (which ...
Tags: MOCVD