For its fiscal first-quarter 2017 (ended 31 July 2016), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported record revenue of $341.3m, up 7.1% on $318.8m last quarter and up 8.7% on $314m ...
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has launched its second-generation gallium nitride (GaN)-based 125-200W Ka-band UltraLinear solid-state power amplifier/block ...
Tags: GaN, HEMT, Advantech Wireless, SSPA/BUC
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) says that its Low Power Wireless business unit (formerly GreenPeak Technologies until ...
Tags: Qorvo, Low Power Wireless business unit, ZigBee 3.0 certification
SAGE SatCom of San Diego, CA, USA (part of telecoms solutions provider REMEC Broadband Wireless), which manufactures power amplifiers for the satellite industry, has added an ultra-compact, efficient, low-power-consumption gallium nitride ...
Tags: SAGE SatCom, GaN, BUC
Gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC foundry Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) of Tainan Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan has announced plans to repurchase five million shares (3.56% of its outstanding stock) at between NT$36 ...
For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...
TDK Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have agreed to establish a joint venture, TDK Automotive Technologies Corporation, to develop and manufacture automotive inverters for hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. I. ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – says that it has expanded its intellectual property (IP) portfolio to ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received an order for its 25th GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Introduced in August 2013, the GENxplor system is said to be ...
Tags: Veeco MBE, GENxplor system
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several of its semiconductor solutions (including its SkyHi multimode modules and switches) are powering LG Electronics Inc' ...
Tags: Skyworks, OCU, LG Electronics
EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium, which supplies commercial-grade 150mm- and 200mm-diameter gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) epitaxial wafers for 600V high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) power and RF devices, says that ...
For the fourth summer in a row, five undergraduate students spent eight weeks at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute learning about solid-state lighting and investigating technology and application issues. The ...
Power management company Eaton, a 2016 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year, today announced the expansion of the Lumark Night Falcon™ light-emitting diode (LED) Floodlight Luminaire family. With the addition of the Small and Large ...
Tags: Eaton, LED Floodlight, Night Falcon
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has announced a strategic partnership with automated test equipment ...