Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has shipped its 2 billionth UltraCMOS chip (shipped to ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS SOI RF CMOS, chip, Electrical, Electronics
For third-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $11.1m, down 45% on $19.9m ...
Japan's Honda Motor Co Ltd has announced plans to discontinue the operations of its copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing subsidiary Honda Soltec Co Ltd in spring 2014 and withdraw from the ...
Tags: Honda CIGS Solar cell, Electrical, Electronics, solar cell
Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian investment fund leading a takeover of smartphone maker BlackBerry, is to invest $250m in BlackBerry via a $1bn private placement of convertible debenture. The financing move marks the close of ...
John Roberts, co-founder & chief technical officer of GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has won the ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA are sampling the first RF ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS CMOS SOI RF switches, Electrical, Electronics
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that Shinry Technologies Co Ltd of Shenzhen, China, which focuses on energy-efficient applications in transportation and lighting, has employed its 1200V C2M family of silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs in its ...
Tags: Cree SiC MOSFET, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has announced the UltraCMOS 10 platform, the latest development of its UltraCMOS ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Soraa Chief Technology Officer Mike Krames recently ressponded to LED Magazine article's claims that the company's GanN-on-GaN MR16 emits large quantities of UV rays. Below is Krames blog entry on the company website: With the ...
Tags: UV Rays, GanN-on-GaN MR16
Wacker Chemie AG posted slight quarter-on-quarter sales growth between July and September 2013, thanks especially to the surging demand for solar silicon. As already expected, however, the Munich-based chemical group did not match the ...
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK has secured £1m in funding to help it speed the development and commercialization of its silicon carbide (SiC)-on-silicon technology for power devices. The benefit of SiC-based devices is ...
Tags: SiC power converters SiC-on-silicon driver ICs, Electrical, Electronics
A few days ago, Baosteel--Tianwei Baobian joint laboratory was established, which is a cooperation model created by Baosteel and Tianwei Baobian in integrated industrial chain on the basis of performance research of oriented silicon steel ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
For recent years, the comprehensive competitiveness of China’s PV industry has been continuously improved and the whole PV industrial chain has showed the rapid development trend. China has formed the relatively complete solar PV ...
Tags: Construction, PV, Energy
Genovation Cars is pleased to announce its participation in a major research grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to the University of Maryland for $438,418 to support the development of an Advanced-Silicon-Carbide-based, ...
Tags: Genovation Cars, Electric Car
Shunfeng Photovoltaic International, a China-based maker of solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers, cells and PV modules, has reportedly obtained permission from China's authorities to acquire Suntech Power (Wuxi), the flagship subsidiary ...