The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) Survey provides a unique picture of the state of customer satisfaction in the UK, by collating than 40,000 survey responses from 9,500 individual customers from across the country. Linpac customers ...
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Capacity utilization rates at 8-inch wafer fabs have fallen at a faster-than-expected pace recently prompting foundry houses to lower their quotes, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. LCD driver IC suppliers have cut ...
Tags: LCD Driver, Analog ICs
Electric vehicles have been developing rapidly from the original hybrids, to parallel/serial and plug-in hybrids through the optimization of power drive designs. Since then, the industry has been able to develop all-electric models as the ...
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The company has been providing around €3m of packaging to the Irish market, serviced from the company’s three UK manufacturing sites. ICS Europaks will be run as a stand alone unit within the Rigid Containers Group, and expands ...
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Inphi Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a provider of high-speed mixed-signal ICs for communications, data-center and computing markets, is adding to its 45GBaud linear coherent product family by sampling the IN4518SZ quad linear differential ...
Tags: MZM Driver, Inphi Corp, coherent product
Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA has launched what is claimed to be an industry-first 100G-CWDM system-on-chip fully integrated optoelectronic S-roC receiver IC ...
Tags: silicon photonics, receiver, transmitter
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for data-center servers and storage systems, has announced commercial deployments of its new 100Gb/s LinkX active optical ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) is collaborating to demonstrate a single-mode 400G module in ...
Tags: 400G module, semiconductor, transceivers
At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has announced the expansion of its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon technology ...
Tags: Evatec Sputtering, PVD, Electronics
In booth #1225 at the Optical Fiber Conference conference & exposition (OFC 2015) in Los Angeles (24-26 March), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for ...
Tags: TFPS, datacom demo, Electronics
Skysilicon Co Ltd of Chong Qing City, China (which makes discrete power devices and power ICs, MEMS sensors and compound semiconductor devices) has released what is reckoned to be China's first gallium nitride (GaN) power device ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si MISHEMTs, Electronics
Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, which provides assembly and test services for niche ICs and produces ceramic substrates for the manufacture of LEDs, expects its capex for 2015 to exceed NT$1.5 billion (US$47.8 million). The capex will be ...
Belgium-based packaging company VPK Packaging group has made its first acquisition in Ireland with an agreement to acquire 100% shares of corrugated board box manufacturer ICS Europaks for an undisclosed amount. Based in Galvone ...
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that the global semiconductor industry posted record sales totaling $335.8 billion in 2014, an increase of ...
Soitec of Bernin, France has introduced its eSI90 substrate, the newest high-end wafer in its radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) product family. The eSI90 is designed to improve the RF performance of mobile communication ...
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