Apple is almost always embroiled in an acquisition rumour, and the latest predictions put Netflix – amongst others – in the Silicon Valley store window. This week, we learned that Apple now has cash reserves totalling an ...
The long-awaited Samsung Pay mobile payments service could finally be making its way to the UK. Samsung has long offered a mobile payments platform – just like Apple Pay or Android Pay – around the world, but the UK is yet to ...
ICSH Parent, the parent company of Industrial Container Services, has announced that it has been acquired by funds advised by Centerbridge Partners, a leading private investment firm. Prior to this transaction, ICS was owned by affiliates ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA and Xiamen-based San’an Optoelectronics Co Ltd (China's largest producer of full-color ultra-high-brightness LED epiwafers and chips) are forming a joint venture ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has announced a new technical brief detailing its progress in boosting linearity by using passive MMIC mixers based on gallium nitride (GaN) technology. ...
Tags: Custom MMIC, MMIC mixers
For first-quarter 2017, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported revenue of €9.2m, up dramatically from €1.4m a year ago. ...
Tags: MBE systems, effusion cells
The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has introduced a new series of AllnGaP-on-Si super red, red, amber and yellow ultrabright LEDs in compact untinted surface-mount packages with dome lenses. ...
Tags: LED, LCD switches
Conax Technologies of Buffalo, NY, USA (a manufacturer of temperature sensors, compression seal fittings and feedthroughs, probes, sensors, wires, electrodes and fiber-optic cables) has acquired Quartz Engineering of Tempe, AZ, USA (which ...
Tags: Conax, Quartz Engineering
Due to funding assistance from PowerAmerica – a private-public partnership between the US Department of Energy, industry and academia – Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA, which designs and manufactures what ...
Tags: PowerAmerica, GaN products
The LED materials market is increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.9% from 2016 to $12.55bn in 2021, forecasts a report from MarketsandMarkets. The market is driven by the growing demand for LED materials in general ...
Tags: LEDs Lighting, LED materials
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the next generation of its RSW LED street-light portfolio with the introduction of 2700K, 5000K and 70 color rendering index (CRI) configurations, giving ...
Tags: Cree LED, LED lighting
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced the NX technology platform, which will power the next generation of its lighting-class LEDs. The NX technology platform enables the new Extreme Density ...
Nestle UK has recalled a batch of its KitKat Bites and asked people with nut or peanut allergies to be especially vigilant following incorrect packaging of the chocolates. The company is recalling KitKat Original Milk Chocolate Bites ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has announced its Phase Nine Reliability ...
Tags: gallium nitride, FETs
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) says that customers are implementing its recently released portfolio of Wi-Fi front-end modules (FEMs) ...
Tags: Qorvo, RF components