For third-quarter 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported net sales of $28.6m, down 23.1% on $37.3m a year ago but up 14.1% on $25.1m last quarter. ...
Tags: wireless ainfrastructure, CATV infrastructure, wireline communications
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has reported its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results for the period ending 28 September 2012. Revenue for the ...
Tags: Skyworks, analog semiconductors, mixed-signal semiconductors
Picometrix LLC of Ann Arbor, MI, USA, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc (which designs and makes silicon, InP- and GaAs-based APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz ...
Tags: Photonix, PIN, FILTRODE photodetectors
Samsung's Galaxy Appeal is one of the first mass-produced phones to ship with a high-performance 3G CMOS silicon power amplifier (PA), according to market analyst firm ABI Research in its 'SAMSUNG GALAXY APPEAL (I827) Teardown' report. ...
Tags: CMOS, silicon power amplifier, 3G CMOS, PA
For third-quarter 2012, , CA, USA has reported revenue of $20.8m, down 17.5% on $25.2m last quarter and down 26.5% on $28.3m a year ago. Gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate revenue was $12.9m, down 13% on $14.9m last quarter and 31% on ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc increased its share of the market for RF power amplifiers (PAs) used in cellular terminals in 2011 and first-half 2012, increasing its lead on second-ranked RF Micro Devices Inc and most other suppliers, according to ...
Tags: Power amplifiers, Skyworks, RF power amplifiers, RF Micro Devices
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd. and Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Brolis has received shipment of a Veeco GEN200® Edge™ Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) production system for installation at their new epitaxial ...
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Australian clean technology innovator,BluGlass Limited announced today that it is now producing n-type gallium nitride(GaN)films with demonstrated industry equivalent performance properties using its breakthrough low temperature Remote ...
Wireless infrastructure GaAs device revenue boosted by shrinking cell sizes According to Strategy Analytics’ recent market report ‘Wireless Infrastructure Markets: 2011-2016’, gallium arsenide (GaAs) device revenue ...
Tags: GaAs, Wireless base-station, Lights, Lighting
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 ...
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — October 9, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE ...
Tags: LED Inventor, LED, LED systems, CFLs
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA,is showcasing twelve new products at European Microwave Week in Amsterdam next week(29-31 October).These include new packaged ...
18 October 2012 Lithium aluminate substrate for low-cost nonpolar gallium nitride Researchers based in Germany and the Netherlands have been studying the potential for growing nonpolar gallium nitride(GaN)on lithium ...
Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike ...
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9 October 2012 IQE's III-V-on-Si laser materials enable next-gen hard disk drive technology Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK says that it has produced epitaxial wafers combining the optical properties of ...
Tags: IQE III-V-on-Si, laser material, next-gen hard disk drive technology