New solar photovoltaic (PV) demand added during the first quarter of 2014 exceeded 9GW, which was 35% more than the previous first-quarter record, set in 2013. Every quarter in 2014 is forecast to reach new highs, with trailing 12-month ...
Tags: PV Industry, end-market demand
Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA says that it has achieved another milestone for next-generation gallium nitride (GaN) radio-frequency (RF) semiconductor technology. Through the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Near ...
Tags: GaN-on-Diamond, GaN-on-SiC
Avago Technologies Ltd (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) says that its latest series of MicroPOD and MiniPOD optical modules support 100 Gigabit Ethernet ...
Tags: Optical Modules, Micropod
Worldwide software revenues totaled US$407.3 billion in 2013, a 4.8% increase from 2012 revenues of US$388.5 billion, according to Gartner. The software industry is in the middle of a multi-year cyclical transition as organizations are ...
Tags: Software Market, software industry
The firm will use the funds to add to its product portfolio, team, and strategic partnerships. Most of the new funding comes from new investors. A new investor led the round, with participation from existing shareholders including ...
'47 Brand, a privately-held premium sports lifestyle apparel and headwear brand, announced that Ryan Johnson has been hired as consumer marketing manager for the rapidly growing '47 Brand team. Johnson will oversee all consumer-facing ...
Tags: Sporting Goods
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, Electrical, Electronics
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has introduced a new lineup of flip-chip LED packages and modules offering enhanced design flexibility and a high degree of reliability, for use in LED lighting such as LED bulbs, MR/PAR and ...
Tags: Samsung, LEDs, LED product
At the Satellite 2014 event in Washington DC (16-19 March), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has introduced the Optiva ...
Tags: fiber-optic, Emcore, Optiva Platform
While a large youthful population lends itself well to the on-going e-commerce trends, the very real issue of an aging population shapes traditional retail offerings. This translates to a long trajectory of growth for e-commerce to become ...
Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, TX, USA, which provides RF power transistors for cellular markets, has launched what is claimed to be the first 2W integrated power amplifier (PA) operating with a 5V supply and delivering more than 40dB ...
Tags: Freescale InGaP HBT, Electrical, Electronics
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has been recognized as a finalist for UBM Tech's EE Times and EDN Annual Creativity in Electronics ACE Award for Ultimate Products, AVX's TCJ Series ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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) says that, at SEMICON China ...
Tags: LED drivers, high voltage, high power
Finnish thin film coating specialist Picodeon Ltd Oy has developed its ultra-short pulsed laser deposition (USPLD) surface coating technology to be able to create either porous or dense aluminium oxide (Al2O3) coatings on heat-sensitive ...
The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry is set for rapid growth over the next five years, with up to 100GW annual deployment being targeted in 2018, according to Solarbuzz. This end-market growth is projected to increase annual PV module ...
Tags: power supply, PV Solarbuzz, PV industry