Computerworld - Western Digital's HGST subsidiary may not have picked the best time to have a breakthrough in hard-disk drive innovation. After a decade of trying, HGST recently perfected a method to seal helium gas inside drives. The ...
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Europe's top digital commissioner has called for an "Airbus for chips" to boost the bloc's microelectronics sector. Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Tuesday that if the European Union wants to be a global player in chip ...
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The worldwide chip market dropped from being labeled "stagnant" to "in a slump" this year, with one analyst firm downgrading its forecast to a level that puts the entire year in a decline. IHS iSuppli announced Monday that it is ...
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Apple will be the world's largest chip buyer this year because of the surge in demand for the company's products, enabling it to command lower prices and quicker delivery, IHS iSuppli said in research released on Wednesday. The company's ...
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around USD 130 million from Kraftnät Åland AB to supply a new power transmission link between the Finnish mainland and Åland. The high-voltage ...
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Luxembourg-registered Element Six (which is part of the De Beers Family of Companies and is co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has opened its first US manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley (in Santa Clara, CA), as part of its ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has added to its Oslux family with a new LED designed specifically for the camera flash in smartphones, providing a high-quality white light that illuminates the target area. The firm ...
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Yale University has developed techniques to release nitride semiconductor layers and transfer them to other substrates, allowing vertical current-flow light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Yu Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol100, p181908, 2012]. ...
Plessey Semiconductors has said that its EPIC sensor will now sell for less than a dollar in high volume consumer applications.The company has cost-reduced it electrometer sensing technology with a new electrode design to replace the ...
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Smart Fog Inc announced the release of 2013 TS100 In-Duct HVAC commercial humidifier.The new 2013 edition of Smart Fog HVAC/R technology provides accurate non condensing in-duct humidification.Any climate controlled facility need to ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has started volume production of several RF solutions supporting Broadcom 5G WiFi (IEEE 802.11ac) chips, including ...
Director general of Export Processing Zone Administration (EPZA) W.G. Huang noted that export value, number of firms and employees all have grown in Taiwan’s export processing zones (EPZs), with revenues likely to hit historical high ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the Ostar Projection Cube grren LED for embedded projection applications in smartphones and cameras. Osram Opto says that the next development for smart phones and ...
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Nanometrics Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (a supplier of process control metrology and inspection systems primarily for manufacturing semiconductors, high-brightness LEDs, data storage devices and solar photovoltaics) says that its board of ...
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The revenues are expected register a 4.1%compound annual growth rate(CAGR)from 2011-2016 Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to reach$319bn by 2013,rising a 4.9%compared to$304bn in 2012,according to a report by the International ...
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