Even though sales of some mobile devices are booming,overall confidence in the tech sector continues to erode as economic weakness puts downward pressure on the computer market. The Nasdaq Computer Index slumped Friday afternoon,hitting ...
Tags: Wall Street, Chips, mobile devices, IHS
Production equipment order cancellations and push-outs by solar manufacturers during 2012 exceeded US$3 billion by the end of third-quarter 2012, according to NPD Solarbuzz. This has resulted in a significant reduction in order backlogs ...
Tags: PV solar equipment, Production equipment order, solar equipment
The October 2012 book-to-bill (B/B) ratio of North American semiconductor-equipment industry hit a 12-month low of 0.75, with the three-month average of worldwide bookings amounting to US$743.2 million in October and the three-month average ...
Tags: Semiconductor, B/B Ratio
Taipei, Oct. 22, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan-based market research agency Market Intelligence Center (MIC) recently forecast that the production value of global the semiconductor industry would rise 4.8% year on year in 2013, a strong recovery ...
Tags: semiconductor, MIC, Market Intelligence Center, semiconductor industry
Ebara announced the launch of a new dry vacuum pump, model EV-A10, in October, 2012. Model EV-A10 was developed as a small-size and air-cooled dry vacuum pump for general industrial purposes, based on the dry vacuum pump technology ...
Tags: market view, Vacuum Pump
Azzurro and Epistar say they have achieved GaN-on-Si based LEDs utilizing Epistar's high-brightness LED structures and Azzurro's patented technology for 150mm GaN-on-Si. The joint project, completed in four months, transferred Epistar's ...
Jianzhong Jiao discusses the progress made in the SEMI organization on LED manufacturing standards, including a Wafer Task Force draft document, that should ultimately lead to more efficient and less expensive components for SSL. With the ...
Tags: LED
Taipei, Oct. 26, 2012 (CENS)--Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC), the leading contract IC maker in the world, pointed out yesterday (Oct. 25) that the global economy is still situated in a spot where ...
Tags: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., Semiconductor, IC
The Company will not Return to Profitability within the Current Year. AIXTRON SE(ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6),a leading provider of deposition equipment to the global semiconductor industry,wrote down EUR 51.5m of inventory due to a ...
Tags: Europe, AIXTRON SE, devaluation, economy recovery
Altera outgrew the semiconductor industry by almost 2x over the last four years and outgrew the ASSP market by 3x,says John Daane,CEO of Altera. The driver of Altera's growth is the increasing cost of ASSP."Companies are spending$100m to ...
AkzoNobel of Amsterdam,The Netherlands is to boost capacity at one of its US sites in order to meet increasing demand from the semiconductor industry,particularly for the production of light-emitting diodes. The investment-at its ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, TMAL, LED industry, production of light-emitting diode
Driven by market demand, the semiconductor industry progressed toward consensus on building-block standards for automating LED production on 6-in wafers at the Semicon West conference, explains PAULA DOE. ...
Tags: LED
For first-half 2012,Riber S.A.of Bezons,France,which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells,has reported gross profit(before changes in provisions for inventories)of€3m(gross ...
At its annual TECHCON technology conference in Austin,TX(at which the latest results of SRC-funded research are shared among university students,faculty and industry experts),university-research consortium Semiconductor Research Corp(SRC)of ...
Tags: SRC, UC Berkeley's del Alamo, MIT's Neureuther, chip
The September 2012 issue of LEDs Magazine is now available. +++Cover+++ Architect Moshe Safdie led a revamp of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City,MO including new façade lighting in the Muriel Kauffman ...