TSMC will lead the foundry pack by a massive 4x margin over No.2 GloFo, says IC Insights. The top ten players in 2012 will be, says IC Insights: $bn TSMC 16.7 GloFo 4.3 ...
Tags: TSMC, Samsung, Apple, IC Foundry
LED chipmaker Epistar has plans to completely take over subsidiary Huga Optotech through a share swap. Taiwan's largest chip maker, Epistar, has announced it will completely take over subsidiary Huga Optotech through ...
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AIXTRON SE announced a new MOCVD system order from National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan. Existing customer, NCU has placed an order for one 1x6-inch AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead MOCVD system, which will be dedicated to the growth ...
But figures were 20% up compared to the previous quarter Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 2% in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the corresponding quarter in 2011, according to analysis by SEMI Silicon ...
Tags: silicon wafer, increased, SMG, SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group
Taiwan Epistar's board of directors has agreed with a proposal to acquire Huga Optotech Inc. as its wholly owned subsidiary by all-stock swap at ratio of one Epistar share for 4.85 Huga shares. Baseline date for the swap is tentatively ...
Lextar Electronics Corp. ("Lextar" or the "Company) (TAIEX: 3698) announced its results for the second quarter of 2012. The Company reported consolidated revenue of NT$ 2,611 million, up 19% from the previous quarter and near 10% of YoY ...
Tags: Taiwan, LED, Lextar, financial results
TSMC's July sales were 37% up on July 2011 at $1.6bn and up from the $1.4bn sales in June 2012. For the first nine months of the year TSMC had sales of $9.3bn which is 13.6% up on the first nine months of 2011. Reports say the company ...
After the shortages of 28nm from TSMC,there is now a tightening supply at 40nm,says Taiwan's DigiTimes. Shortages of 28nm affected the financial results of customers such as Qualcomm,Nvidia and Altera.Now it is said that MediaTek,the ...
Tags: Taiwan's DigiTimes, shortages of 28nm from TSMC, supply at 40nm
For second-quarter 2012, 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 $17m, down 60% on $43m a ...
LED chipmaker Epistar will completely take over subsidiary Huga Optotech through a share swap in which one Epistar share will be exchanged for 4.85 Huga shares, Epistar has announced. The merger will take effect on December 28, 2012. The ...
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 ...
Tags: The US National Science Foundation, Rochester Institute of Technology
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA(which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets)has entered into a definitive agreement,subject to closing conditions,to consolidate its terrestrial concentrating ...
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Back-end facility in city of Wuxi represents an investment of more than €100 million by the German lighting giant. Osram, one of the world's leading lighting companies and a pioneer in the emerging market for solid-state lighting ...
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According to a new report, "Status of the LED Industry," a cost reduction per lumen of packaged LEDs by a factor ten is necessary for mass LED adoption to occur in lighting. Growth of the LED industry has come initially from the small ...
Tags: LED lighting
Yole Développement and EPIC announce their report dedicated to the LED industry:"Status of the LED Industry".The report presents all applications of LEDs and associated market metrics,LED cost reduction opportunities,entire LED value ...
Tags: LED industry, LED, Packaged LED Market, Yole Développement, EPIC