As part of an asset deal, as of 1 January, Jenoptik of Jena, Germany has transferred expertise, patents and results relating to thermal laser separation (TLS-Dicing) technology developed by its Laser & Materials Processing Division to ...
Tags: 3D-Micromac, Electrical
Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Europe enjoyed a sixth consecutive month of chip market growth in a global market driven upwards by strong sales in the America's region, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association. The three-month average for global ...
Tags: Chip, Chip Sales
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $27.24 billion for the month of November 2013, an increase ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
Following a 2.5 percent decline in 2012, the global semiconductor market has regained its footing in 2013 with revenue set to expand by nearly 5 percent because of the strong performance of the memory sector. Global semiconductor sales in ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, Ray Wallin, appointment
Optical inspection tool manufacturer Nanotronics Imaging LLC of Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA has completed a $7m Series B financing round from San Francisco-based technology investment firm Founders Fund (which has previously backed companies ...
Tags: Nanotronics, inspection tool
Guoqing Tang, China President of LED BU, Samsung, who is also Chairman of SEMI China LED Committee, gives an in depth analysis of the LED industry developments and categorization in this article. Chinese baby boomers born in the 1950s ...
Tags: LED Industry, Lighting
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has celebrated its 30th anniversary, after being co-founded by physicist Dr Holger Jürgensen (now honorary chairman of Aixtron’s Supervisory Board), Dr Meino Heyen and ...
Tags: LED, electronics
Taiwan is the world’s leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world’s capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). Meanwhile, worldwide ...
Australian Cleantech company BluGlass Limited has today announced that it has increased its operational capacity with the successful commissioning of a former production MOCVD system at the Company’s Silverwater facility. Using a low ...
Tags: Bluegalss, MOCVD System
Arkieva designer and supplier of a full suite of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) software tools announced the appointment of Dr. Ken Fordyce to the position of solutions director, semiconductor and analytics. Fordyce is joining the ...
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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: OPEL ODIS POET, Electrical, Electronics
Almatec has designed its Futur Series Pneumatic Diaphragm Pumps for use in specific chemical supply and circulation applications in the semiconductor industry. Realizing the importance of reliable and contamination-free pump performance in ...
The new pan-european strategy was developed with input from exhibitors, leading chip manufacturers, representatives from europe's leading semiconductor clusters, and other government authorities and constituencies in order to leverage ...