The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) yesterday approved United Microelectronics Corp.’s application to acquire a 51.85% stake in mainland Chinese chipmaker HeJian Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. for US$175 million. With the ...
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Shanghai ultra-silicon layout of the Two Rivers Area LED project will be commissioned in the second half of the year. Reporter learned from the Two Rivers Area Administrative Committee, through the cooperation of domestic well-known ...
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Epistar,the Taiwan-based company that is ranked as one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs,has become the latest major producer to hint at a transfer to a potentially much cheaper silicon platform. Currently the ...
The acquisition will boost ASML's development work on the next generation of chipmaking technology Intel will invest around $4.1bn to buy 15% of Dutch semiconductor equipment provider ASML, to help fund its research into new chip ...
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Carbon nanotubes will allow creation of nanoscale transistor devices IBM researchers have demostrated a new way of carbon nanotechnology which will help in commercial fabrication of smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips ...
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Researchers based in France and Germany have developed techniques for growing indium arsenide (InAs) channel structures on silicon [L. Desplanque et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p142111, 2012]. Room-temperature mobility for the epitaxial ...
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Taipei,Sept.28,2012(CENS)--Green Energy Technology Inc.has recently received increased number of photovoltaics(PV)contracts from mainland China solar-system suppliers after the mainland's PV-equipment manufacturers were slapped with costly ...
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Epistar hints at'game-changing'silicon LED switch 12 Oct 2012 Giant Taiwanese LED maker works with GaN-on-silicon specialist Azzurro on technology with potential to cut cost of solid-state lighting. Plessey's GaN-on-silicon LED ...
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Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology(GET),in view of continual decreases in solar wafer prices,has adjusted its strategy by selecting orders for high-efficiency solar wafers at higher prices ...
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European Union Commission ha announced to launched an investigation into dumping of PV products including PV components,silicon wafer,battery by Chinese producers.A number of PV Enterprises of China have issued statements and response to ...
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TSMC Solar Ltd,which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc(TSMC),says it has manufactured 14.2%efficient modules using its R&D and pilot production ...
Quick reaction to market fluctuations and flexible manufacturing capabilities have helped many Taiwanese manufacturers of machining centers to escape the impact of economic recession in major markets.Those markets include mainland ...
But figures were 20% up compared to the previous quarter Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 2% in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the corresponding quarter in 2011, according to analysis by SEMI Silicon ...
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The US National Science Foundation(NSF)has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology(RIT) 1.2million dollars to develop,fabricate and test a new family of infrared detectors grown on silicon substrates by Raytheon Visions Systems(RVS)of ...
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UK-based Plessey readies for volume chip production, while Germany's Azzurro Semiconductors gains support for move to larger wafers. GaN-on-silicon LED A disruptive approach to lowering the cost of solid-state lighting (SSL) with ...
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