Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that, to keep pace with constant market growth, it is switching its fabrication of red, orange and yellow light-emitting diodes to 6-inch wafers. The firm is therefore extending the ...
Tags: LED Fabrication, LED Chip
According to Strategies Unlimited, revenues for LEDs in lighting applications, which includes both replacement lamps and luminaires, are expected to have a CAGR of 30% and reach a total value of US$13 billion by 2017. HB-LEDs saw a ...
At the Mobile World Congress 2014, Sensirion AG is presenting its latest humidity and temperature sensor SHTW1, which opens up new possibilities in the weara-ble and mobile market with its chip-scale packaging technology. This global ...
Tags: sensors, mobile market, consumer market
T-ChIP, the new Textile Chemical Information Profile program, opened for business on January 22nd. T-ChIP is a unique chemical hazard and risk assessment program designed by textile chemistry experts specifically for textile and textile ...
Tags: Textile Chemical, finishing agents
KLN Family Brands, an American snack food manufacturer, has purchased the former Troyer Farms potato chip plant in northwestern Pennsylvania. The company will begin the manufacturing of kettle-cooked potato chips, popcorn and other snacks ...
Tags: snack food, new plant
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- In December, 2.3 million people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program -- an increase of 20 percent from November, U.S. officials say. A report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
Tags: CHIP, CMS, Medicaid coverage, healthcare market
The situation, mixed with the entry of several new players at the chip and device levels (mostly from Asia), created a climate of overcapacity, price pressure, and strong competition. As a consequence, packaged LED volumes were sharply ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED
PPG has introduced a dedicated color tool for the value Refinish user. The Value Color Deck provides a visual alternative for finding the best color for a refinish repair. Consisting of 1,800 large, color chips chromatically sorted and ...
Tags: PPG, color tool
Everlight Electronics Co Ltd (Taiwan’s largest LED assembly manufacturer) says that its laboratory in Tucheng, Taipei has received the highest standard recognition by the US government agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ...
Tags: Everlight LM-80, LED, EPA, ILAC-MR
"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside the gadgets to fail. Conventional wisdom ...
Tags: smartphones, tablets, Consumer Electronics
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
Intel expects that its workforce will decline by 5 percent as it heads into a year in which revenue is likely to be flat. Intel announced its expectations for a decline in its workforce in the wake of its fourth quarter earnings report. ...
Greater attention must be paid to generating renewable heat if the climate protection targets set in Germany and around the world are to be met. At 40%, the heating market accounts for the largest proportion of energy consumed in Germany ...
Tags: Renewable Heating Set, Fuel, Energy, Heating Market
The market growth is expected to be driven by increased demand for devices with exceptional speed, low power consumption, smaller chip size, and reduced response time. Information and communication technology (ICT) and consumer electronics ...
Tags: 3D ICs market, Electrical market