Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
Tags: Electrical&Electronics, Energy Harvesting, battery, MEC, IPS
Toshiba plans silicon-based LED production; Azzurro installs Veeco MOCVD 31 Jul 2012 Veeco Instruments announced that Azzurro Semiconductors has commissioned a new Veeco MOCVD reactor for silicon-based LED production while Toshiba plans to ...
Fujitsu,NEC and Docomo are to set up a Yen 100m jv calledAccess Network Technology,to develop baseband ICs for 4G. The rationale is that,with Qualcomm becoming ever more dominant,and ST-E sinking like a stone,it is vital that Qualcomm ...
Tags: Fujitsu and Docomo set up LTE IC JV, baseband ICs for 4G
Rochester Electronics,the world's largest authorized manufacturer of mature,often referred to as obsolete or discontinued,semiconductors,has added more than 176m die to its inventory to extend the life of critical semiconductors through its ...
UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has taken delivery of a CRIUS II-XL metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor (in 7x6-inch wafer configuration) from deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany (which ...
Tags: MOCVD
LED makers square off in The LED Show opening session 31 Jul 2012 Cree focuses on the system-level approach to SSL,while Bridgelux discusses the cost roadblock,and Nichia touts market presence and LED and phosphor experience. To kick off ...
Tags: LED, Opening Session, Cree
Qualcomm is thinking of buying 10%of the No.2 foundry UMC in order to try and secure advanced IC fabrication,according to industry rumours. Qualcomm has been the most proactive in seeking alternative sources among those customers of ...
Tags: Qualcomm, UMC, fabrication
Plessey Semiconductors has today taken delivery of a CRIUS®II-XL reactor in a 7x6-inch wafer configuration from AIXTRON,as the first part of a multi-million pound investment to create a production line for its new High Brightness ...
The wireless IC market will grow 10%to$72.6bn in 2012,says IHS,compared to the 3%growth expected for the overall semi industry,however 'The continual adoption by IDMs of an asset-light manufacturing model is now working against their ...
Tags: Semi Industry, IC, IHS, IDM, Semiconductor
Apple will have to postpone the launch of iPhone 5 because Qualcomm can't supply enough 28nm ICs,according to the Shanghai-based newspaper First Financial Daily. Apple's shares fell earlier this week because of slipping sales of the ...
TI led the pack in the industrial IC market last year,according to IHS with its industrial IC revenue growing 25%to$2.2bn for a market share of 7.3%.Infineon grew 25%to take the No.2 slot. Industrial was the second fastest-growing ...
Tags: TI, Industrial IC, Infineon, IHS, semiconductor
Automotive ICs have remained a bright spot for the industry and should be almost a$20bn market this year,says IC Insights. One of the silver linings to the automotive downturn in 2008 was that it initiated a massive and perhaps long ...
Tags: Automotive ICs, automakers, EV, HEV, green initiative
A major fabless semiconductor company is emerging from the UK's high tech start-up community. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips is to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer ...
Tags: UK, high tech start-up community, fabless semiconductor, Toumaz
Fairchild Semiconductor,an innovator of MOSFET technology,continues to deliver the latest LED lamp drivers following the addition of an optimized low-power offering to its extensive LED lighting driver solutions product line. Along with ...
Product announcements during the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada in late June highlighted how military applications will continue to grow and drive the fundamental development of semiconductor ...
Tags: Military, development, IMS