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SEMI: Fab Spending Recovery to Continue
Nov 5, 2015Equipment spending by semiconductor chip manufacturers, a key industrial market for vendors of both lithography and laser-based wafer processing systems, will reach $32 billion in 2010 – more than double the 2009 figure. ...
Tags: semiconductor, chip, LED fab
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2010 PV Forecasts Converge Around 14GW
Nov 5, 2015A sharp upturn in demand has seen a number of analysts re-think their appraisal of the photovoltaics market in 2010. After the impact of the global credit crunch, which put the brakes on the rapid market expansion witnessed up until 2009, ...
Tags: Photonics Industry, cell prices
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Arming The Solid-State Lighting Revolution
Nov 5, 2015Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays
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Wearable Technologies to See 'Ambiotex' T-Shirt Premiere
Jul 8, 2014This year's Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco will see match2blue GmbH present for the first time its innovative ambiotex t-shirt. The shirt, which was developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated ...
Tags: Wearable Technologies, Shirt, T-Shirt
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Biometric Shirt in German
Jul 7, 2014Match2blue GmbH will present its Ambiotex t-shirt for the first time at this year's Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco. The shirt, which was developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits ...
Tags: Biometric Shirt, Shirt
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Google X Lab Is Developing a Smart Contact Lens
Jan 17, 2014If Google's latest project is successful, the finger prick test for blood sugar levels could eventually become a thing of the past for diabetics. Google X lab is developing a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels in tears ...
Tags: Smart Contact Lens, Google
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Rubicon Launched What It Claims Is The First Commercial Line
Oct 31, 2013Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has launched what it claims is the first commercial line of large-diameter ...
Tags: Rubicon Sapphire substrates, LED, Electrical, Electronics
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Cree Earned ENERGY STAR Qualification for Its Soft-White Cree LED Bulbs
Oct 9, 2013LED lighting, LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has earned ENERGY STAR qualification for its soft-white Cree LED Bulbs. ENERGY STAR qualification signifies that these Cree LED bulbs now qualify for incentive ...
Tags: LED Bulbs, Electronics
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Emerging Markets Are Forecast to Rise at About Triple The Global Average Through 2017
Oct 9, 2013The next big opportunity for growth in the global solar business lies in small, emerging markets where photovoltaic (PV) installations are forecast to rise at about triple the global average during the period from 2012-2017. Annual ...
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The Supply and Demand for Solar Devices Is Returning to a State of Balance
Sep 27, 2013After years of oversupply, the supply and demand for solar devices is returning to a state of balance. Because of this, IMS Research is reiterating its forecast that global capital spending by producers of photovoltaic (PV) modules, cells, ...
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The Commercial Segment Is Projected to Expand by a Factor of 700 in The Coming Years
Sep 25, 2013Currently the smallest part of the global solar energy storage business, the commercial segment, is projected to expand by a factor of 700 in the coming years and become the largest market segment in 2017, according to IMS Research. ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Lighting
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GaN Systems Is Presenting a Paper on New Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors
Sep 18, 2013At the 2013 Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Conference & Expo in Novi, MI, USA (17-19 September), GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Hybrid Vehicles
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Worldwide Market Shipments of Solar PV Inverters Declined 5% on Year in The Q2
Sep 10, 2013Worldwide market shipments of solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters declined 5% on year in the second quarter - the first such decrease since the third quarter of 2011 - as demand fell in key Europe countries, according to IMS Research. PV ...
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The Global Market for Microinverters Will Expand by a Factor of Four From 2013-2017
Sep 6, 2013The global market for microinverters will expand by a factor of four from 2013-2017 as microinverters are adopted in greater numbers outside the US while new markets also rush to take advantage of the devices' improved efficiency and ...
Tags: Solar Microinverter, Energy
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ARM Has Snapped up Sensinode, a Finnish Start-up Specialising in Software Technology
Aug 28, 2013Fast-growing semiconductor designer ARM has snapped up Sensinode, a Finnish start-up specialising in software technology behind the "internet of things". Like ARM, Sensinode makes money by licensing, but of software to semiconductor ...
Tags: Computer Products, software