For 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported record full-year revenue of £88m, consisting of £69m (79%) from Wireless, £18m (20%) from Photonics, and £0.95m (1%) from ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) and Avago Technologies, a ...
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Plessey Semiconductors has signed distributor Alphatec as part of its plan to take its EPIC sensor and GaN-on-silicon LED technologies to the China market. Plessey's EPIC sensors will be marketed by Alphatec for applications in the fields ...
Tags: LEDs, LED technologies, LED
Amphenol has appointed Steve Roberts as UK general manager. Roberts joined the hi-rel connector company with the acquisition of Jaybeam in 2008 and most recently, held the role of global director of worldwide site solutions for Amphenol ...
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Much has been said about the integration of PXI products with LXI and VXI to create hybrid test systems, but less has been said about combining PXI and USB products in a test system, writes David Owen from Pickering Interfaces. USB is a ...
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Micrel has signed a distribution deal with catalogue and online firm Mouser Electronics. Mouser will stock Micrel's product portfolio includes analogue, power, mixed-signal, and RF chips. It also includes ICs for communications, clock ...
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The first millimeter-wave power demonstration of aluminium gallium nitride/gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN) grown on a (110) silicon substrate has been claimed by a French team of researchers [A. Soltani ...
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched three new surface-mount line amplifiers. The ACA2460E, ACA2461E and ACA2462E 1GHz line amplifiers are optimized for ...
Global producer of packaging films Klöckner Pentaplast has received the 'Certificate of Verification' from NSF International for its line of SmartCycle post-consumer recycled (PCR) content polyester films. The certificate verifies ...
Agilent Technologies has introduced its first software which will make it possible to decode MIPI RF front-end protocol packets used in 3G and 4G LTE designs, on oscilloscopes. The MIPI interface is used to connect RF devices such as ...
Texas Instruments has introduced its first fully programmable DC arc detect reference design. It is designed to protect high-power DC systems such as aircraft battery management systems, industrial factory equipment and photovoltaic ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has expanded its optical infrastructure portfolio with five new transimpedance amplifiers (TIA), enabling it to now serve both the ...
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A major challenge of in-situ metrology on single-port reactors with small viewport geometries is the combination of curvature measurements (by blue laser) with reflectance measurement at a wavelength of 405nm, says LayTec AG of Berlin, ...
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UK - There can be no better endorsement for a company that a client who returns year after year; each time asking for a more detailed specification, more equipment and greater participation. Alex Leinster, MD of Chaos Visuals Productions UK ...
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Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) says that it has booked a $1,562,072 order for a custom ...
Tags: Photonix, photodetectors, Missile Systems