More than 500 villages will be initially electrified in Pakistan through the promotion of renewable energy in the form of solar power. Director General Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy technologies (PCRET) Khalid Islam said that the ...
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With the purchase of Elpida Memory, the third-largest DRAM maker, Micron Technology not only becomes a Tier 1 supplier, but also catapults itself into the mobile space as a supplier to leading smartphone and tablet makers, including Apple. ...
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Micron Technology announced today that it will acquire struggling Elpida Memory, the third largest producer of DRAM memory, for $750 million and will also take over $1.75 billion in Elpida's debt. Tokyo-based Elpida filed for bankruptcy ...
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Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has sold two Compact 21 MBE systems to Vienna University of Technology for its material research ...
$4 billion agreement will see the world's leading chip maker fund R&D and take an equity stake in ASML. Eric Meurice:pushing Moore's law Intel is set to acquire up to a 15%equity stake in the semiconductor equipment specialist ...
Texas Instruments Wednesday unveiled its first single-stage wireless charging integrated chip (IC). TI said the new IC is 60% smaller than its predecessors. The company today also added a power controller chip that it said increases the ...
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Technologies Inc of Santa Clara,CA,USA has introduced the latest release of its high-frequency device modeling software platform,the Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program(IC-CAP).With IC-CAP 2013.01,a key improvement is ...
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The impact of using a vertical current injection structure was also seen in a higher external quantum effi- ciency (EQE) of 16.2% at 350mA, com- pared with 13.2% for the LLED. At 550mA, the VLED EQE fell 11.9%, com- pared with14.6% for the ...
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LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville,IL,USA,which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED,RFIC,semiconductor and optical industries,says that the US Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO)has allowed Rubicon's patent ...
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Chris Berry, founder of Mountain Partners asset management company, provided an interesting summary of the graphite space while speaking at the recent Graphite Express Conference in Vancouver. The conference featured a keynote address ...
AIXTRON SE introduced a 5 x 200mm gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) reactor design for its G5 Planetary Reactor metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) platform. AIX G5+ comprises special reactor hardware and process design, ...
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Oversupply in the downstream solar market has been causing the supply of crystal growing furnaces to exceed demand by 100%. In addition, cheap second-hand equipment has been available to solar firms. Nevertheless, despite the availability ...
Unpatterned wafer defect inspection tools provide broad capability to enable critical infrastructure development Today KLA-Tencor Corporation(NASDAQ:KLAC)announced the installation of its first process control systems capable of handling ...
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...