Digital security firm Gemalto has launched Sealys Premium inlays and eCovers to enable manufacturers produce thinner electronic passports. Sealys Premium inlays and eCovers promises thinner, flatter and more aesthetic passports by ...
Tags: Gemalto, E-Passports, Ultra-Thin Inlay
TomTom (TOM2) is introducing Lifetime World Maps and Lifetime Speed Cameras1 to drivers with the launch of new TomTom navigation devices. Lifetime World Maps allows people to drive with maps from around the world at no extra cost, for the ...
Tags: TomTom, Speed Cameras
China's market regulators are investigating foreign medical-equipment makers over suspicion that they may have paid bribes or used illegal strategies to achieve market dominance, according to some people familiar with the matter. ...
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been producing 610nm-wavelength red lasers with III-nitride nanowires (NWs) grown on silicon [Shafat Jahangir et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p071108, 2015]. With a view to plastic fiber optical ...
Tags: plastic fiber, Electronics
Global demand for hard disk drives (HDDs) of all sizes will continually decrease from 561 million units in 2014 to 550 million units in 2015 and further to 538 million units in 2016, according to Taiwan and Shanghai general manager Vincent ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during first-quarter 2015 it received multiple new long-term purchase orders worth up to $3m for its antimonide substrate materials. The purchase orders are from ...
Tags: Infrared Products, LEDs
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has announced initial production shipments of two modulator ...
Tags: Coherent Modules, metro market
Axalta Coating Systems has introduced the latest digital spectrophotometer, the Acquire Plus EFX for car refinish body shops in Korean market. About 30,000 digital spectrophotometers are in use by Axalta customers around the world. Now ...
Tags: Axalta, Color Measuring Device
Researchers in Korea and USA have developed sidewall emission-enhanced (SEE) deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to improve light extraction efficiency DUV LEDs with wavelengths less than 300nm become very inefficient due ...
Tags: Light-Emitting Diodes, LEDs
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched three UltraCMOS glitch-less RF digital step attenuators ...
Yamato Sewing Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd., technology-oriented industrial sewing machine manufacturer based in Osaka, Japan, is set to exhibit various collections of textiles machineries at Texprocess 2015, to be held in Messe Frankfurt, ...
Tags: Yamato, Sewing Machines, Texprocess Expo
Google launched a new U.S. wireless service that switches between Wi-Fi and cellular networks to curb data use and keep phone bills low. This service could pressure wireless providers to further lower prices and better adapt to the rise of ...
Tags: Wireless Service, Wi-Fi, cellular networks
The North Carolina Senate has passed a bipartisan bill that would make child-resistant packaging and warning labels mandatory for liquids used with electronic-cigarette vaporizers. Once approved, the law that would be effective from 1 ...
Korea Institute of Science and Technology has presented what it says is the first demonstration of indium gallium arsenide on-insulator (In0.53Ga0.47As-OI) transistors with a buried yttrium oxide (Y2O3 BOX) layer [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE ...
At PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), ON Semiconductor of Phoenix, AZ, USA (which supplies silicon-based power and signal management, logic, discrete and custom devices for ...