IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor is expected to see its third-quarter revenues climb to the highest quarterly level for 2013, thanks to growing shipments of its NFC phone chips and LED driver ICs, according to market sources. ...
Tags: NFC Phone Chips, LED Driver ICs
Ohio State University is proposing the use of a newly developed tunnel junction as a means to ameliorate the effects of efficiency droop in nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and other optoelectronic devices [Fatih Akyol et ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
SEMI-GAS Systems, a division of Applied Energy Systems Inc of Malvern, PA, USA and a manufacturer of ultra-high-purity gas handling and distribution systems, offers a simplified line of semi-automatic valve manifold boxes that facilitate ...
Tags: SEMI-GAS Gas delivery systems, Electrical, Electronics
The market for lighting controls in commercial buildings has entered a period of dramatic transformation, says Navigant Research, as the demand for both local controls (e.g. occupancy sensors and photosensors) and networked controls rises, ...
Tags: Construction, Lights, Lighting, lighting controls
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that Air Water Inc of Azumino, Japan has successfully installed a fully automated Aixtron AIX G5 HT Planetary Reactor (in 8x6-inch configuration) for the MOCVD growth of ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD GaN-on-SiC, Electrical, Electronics, Industrial Equipment
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, has announced that Ryo Nakao from NTT Photonics Laboratories (NTT) is using ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
In a presentation at the 10th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-10) in Washington DC, USA (26-28 August), AZZURRO LED Technologies of Dresden, Germany announced that it has demonstrated '1-bin' wavelength LED wafers. ...
Tags: Azzurro GaN-on-Si, LED, Electrical, Electronics
The market for lighting controls in commercial buildings has entered a period of dramatic transformation, as the demand for both local controls, such as occupancy sensors and photosensors, and networked controls, rises and the adoption rate ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, lighting controls
Osram and Sharp have cross-licensed LED and laser-diode patents, while Zumtobel appoints a new CEO and its Tridonic business completes the sale of its magnetic ballast plant in Australia. Osram GmbK based in Munich, Germany, and Sharp ...
Tags: laser-diode, Osram
Two major Taiwanese chip makers are set to merge after China's anti-trust regulator approved the deal with only minor provisions. The thumbs-up from China's Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) will enable MediaTek's $4bn purchase of MStar ...
Tags: Chip, taiwan, Computer Products
The phosphor specialist has demonstrated what is essentially equivalent to LM-80 testing for packaged LEDs, with a sample set of remote-phosphor-based SSL modules being independently verified in delivering 100% of initial lumens over 6000 ...
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has appointed Scientech as its distributor for the Greater China region (including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), effective 1 July 2013. "Plasma-Therm's 15 years of ...
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Fast-growing semiconductor designer ARM has snapped up Sensinode, a Finnish start-up specialising in software technology behind the "internet of things". Like ARM, Sensinode makes money by licensing, but of software to semiconductor ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Lighting manufacturer OSRAM (Munich/Germany) and electronics manufacturer Sharp Corp. (Osaka/Japan) have entered into a comprehensive agreement about the cross licensing of patents. The agreement comprises patents of both companies’ ...
Tags: OSRAM, Sharp Corporation
In its Research Bulletin dated August 2, 2013, IC Insights published its list of the top semiconductor sales leaders for the first half of 2013. The list showed the usual big-time players that we've come to expect like Intel, Samsung, and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics