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
TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), says that its latest commercial-sized (1.09m2) copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) ...
Tags: silicon wafer, PV Module
Bough Lin, chairman of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), has predicted that the semiconductor market is unlikely to return to its seasonal growth pattern until the third quarter of 2015. A seasonal pick-up in demand usually starts ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during first-quarter 2015 it received multiple new long-term purchase orders worth up to $3m for its antimonide substrate materials. The purchase orders are from ...
Tags: Infrared Products, LEDs
Researchers in Korea and USA have developed sidewall emission-enhanced (SEE) deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to improve light extraction efficiency DUV LEDs with wavelengths less than 300nm become very inefficient due ...
Tags: Light-Emitting Diodes, LEDs
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched three UltraCMOS glitch-less RF digital step attenuators ...
Taiwan’s TSC Auto ID Technology has launched the compact thermal direct printers DA200 and DA300 for the world market. Suitable for an array of applications such as product marking, point of sale, retail, small office, event ...
Taiwan’s TSC Auto ID Technology has launched the compact thermal direct printers DA200 and DA300 for the world market. Suitable for an array of applications such as product marking, point of sale, retail, small office, event ...
Korea Institute of Science and Technology has presented what it says is the first demonstration of indium gallium arsenide on-insulator (In0.53Ga0.47As-OI) transistors with a buried yttrium oxide (Y2O3 BOX) layer [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE ...
At PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), ON Semiconductor of Phoenix, AZ, USA (which supplies silicon-based power and signal management, logic, discrete and custom devices for ...
Researchers based in Japan claim the highest output power and external quantum efficiency (EQE) so far for deep ultraviolet (DUV) sub-270nm-wavelength light-emitting diodes (LEDs) during DC operation [Shin-ichiro Inoue et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, DUV devices
Internet of Things (IoT) will be the semiconductor industry's next growth driver, spurring demand for chip components for use in applications particularly automotive, medical/healthcare and smart family, according to TSMC president and ...
Tags: chip components, Mobile devices, semiconductor industry
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK's University of Cambridge has ordered its Propel Power gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics, LEDs
Scientech has reported March consolidated revenues increased 69.3% sequentially to NT$313 million (US$10 million). Scientech's cumulative 2015 revenues through March reached NT$671 million, rising 22.5% from a year ago. Sales of ...
The LED industry is now fully embracing the fast-growing lighting market as (based on revenues) LED lighting has become the largest sector among LED applications, surpassing LCD backlighting in 2014, and is expected to be the major driver ...
Tags: LEDs MOCVD, LED Chip