China's top smartphone companies challenged Samsung and Apple with surging sales and revenue in 2014, vowing to scramble for a larger share in a global turf war with the top two makers. As one of the major competitors, telecom behemoth ...
Tags: Smartphone, Samsung, Apple
3M has reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.81 per share, an increase of 11.7 percent versus the fourth quarter of 2013. Sales grew 2.0 percent year-on-year to $7.7 billion. Organic local-currency sales grew 6.3 percent with acquisitions ...
Tags: income margins, shareholders, Construction
Transphorm Inc, Transphorm Japan Inc, and Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd have announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor group's CMOS-compatible, 150mm wafer fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, has started mass production of gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: GaN Power Devices, Electrical
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad urged U.S. technology companies to invest in India to boost the local electronics manufacturing industry, The Hindu Business Line reported. U.S. President Barack Obama arrived here for the second time. ...
Shares of the world's largest software company, Microsoft Corp, as sluggish personal computer sales dampened demand for Windows software and the company struggled with the impact of the strong U.S. dollar, which have surged to 14 year highs ...
Tags: Microsoft Corp, Windows software
In cooperation with international partners, Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland have presented what is claimed to be the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of ...
Tags: Group-IV Lasers, clock signal, Electrical
Picometrix LLC, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc (API) of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation), has completed its ...
Tags: social media, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, Electrical
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) says that it expects revenue for fourth-quarter 2014 to be about $9m, up 6% on $8.5m ...
Tags: financial statements, Electrical
Koch Optics Inc, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc of Wichita, KS, USA, has completed its tender offer to purchase all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of optical communications component, module and subsystem maker Oplink ...
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Emcore Corp, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optics market, has named Jeffrey Rittichier as CEO. He succeeds Dr Hong Hou, who has served as president & CEO since March 2008. Rittichier has ...
Tags: fiber-optics, market, Electrical
For its fiscal second-quarter 2015, fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $297m, up 2.2% on $290.7m a year ago but down 9.4% on $327.6m last quarter (its first ...
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In partnership with digital communications company Telefónica UK, Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic ...
Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) says that it has significantly expanded its portfolio of connectorized RF amplifiers including high-power amplifiers, ...
Tags: RF amplifiers, Pasternack
Shipments of 4G LTE handsets will grow from 204 million units in 2014 to 676 million in 2015, forecasts market analyst firm ABI Research in its report ‘4G Subscribers, Devices, and Networks Market Data’ (part of the firm’s ...
Tags: LTE handsets, Electrical
UK based, Coats plc, a leading industrial thread producer and marketer, has launched a new fibreglass coated yarn, Glasmo SM VO, designed for use in telecommunication cables. “Its unique adhesion properties and inherent strength ...