Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that it is supplying the main antenna switch driving RF performance in ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphone
China-based smartphone and tablet makers' influence in the IT market has been growing rapidly and according to Digitimes Research's latest figures, among the 950 million smartphones shipped globally in the first half of 2013, about 330 ...
Tags: smartphone, tablet, IT market
Solomon Systech Limited today announced that it has successfully developed China’s 1st qHD AMOLED display driver IC with Visionox. Solomon Systech is a leading international semiconductor company providing display IC products and ...
Tags: Solomon Systech, Visionox Pioneer
The technology has been incorporated into lighting fixtures already being sold in major North American lighting retailers and has become the world's best luminance efficacy AC LED module in the global solid state lighting market. The ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Semiconductor
After years of growth, LED industries have entered into the fast lane for development. This year however has been particularly special for lighting giant Philips. After adjusting market channels, WPG Holding has come out on top from other ...
Tags: LED lighting, Lights, Lighting
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC2016 as the newest member of its family of enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs). The EPC2016 is a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor says that its AC-driven Acrich2 LED modules are now achieving luminous efficacies of 140lm/W, nearly 20% up on previous versions. The technology has been incorporated into lighting fixtures already ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics
Seoul Semiconductor, a global LED manufacturer, has announced that Acrich2 LED modules powered by AC are now achieving luminous efficacies of 140lm/W, nearly a 20% upgrade from previous versions. The technology has been incorporated into ...
Tags: LED Modules, Semiconductor
Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s (PolyU) Department of Electronic and Information Engineering has recently developed a high efficiency Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) LED driver that will allow LED lamps to become brighter and more ...
Tags: LED Efficiency, PMW Technology
Taiwan-based analog IC design houses have seen a pull-in of short lead-time orders from their notebook clients, estimating that orders for September are about 30% higher than the prior month's levels, according industry sources. Intel is ...
Tags: IC Suppliers, Notebooks
Azzurro has announced both production and lab milestones in wavelength variation using its GaN-on-Si LED template wafers and Air Water is working on a GaN-on-SiC-on-Si architecture with a new Aixtron MOCVD reactor. While the LED industry ...
Tags: LED Substrate Strategies, Lighting
Power Integrations today announced a reference design for a dimmable PAR38 spotlight, developed in collaboration with Cree, Inc. The new reference design, described in DER-350, uses Power Integrations' new LYT4317E, a member of the ...
Tags: LED Spotlight, Lights, Lighting, LED
China's software industry generated total revenues of CNY1.661 trillion (US$270.7 billion) in January-July 2013, growing 23.8% on year, according to statistics by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The total ...
Tags: Software Industry
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
Most LCD driver IC vendors are expected to see their third-quarter revenues stay flat or decline slightly from the levels posted in the previous quarter due to a slow recovery in orders from the smartphone and tablet sectors, according to ...
Tags: LCD driver, smartphone