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US Air Force's GaN Technology to Be Transferred to Bae Systems Advanced Microwave Products Center

Sep 21, 2018

BAE Systems has signed a cooperative agreement with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for Phase 1 of a technical effort to transition gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology developed by the US Air Force to its Advanced ...

Tags: Microwave Products, GaN Technology

Sanan IC Extends III-V Foundry From Greater China to North American, European and APAC Markets

Aug 27, 2018

Sanan Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (Sanan IC) of Xiamen City, Fujian province (China’s first 6-inch pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry) has announced its entry into the North American, European and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets ...

Tags: integrated passive device, filters

Brewer Science, Arkema Partner to Develop High-Chi DSA Materials for Advanced Node Patterning

Jul 17, 2017

Brewer Science has announced the extension of its partnership with Arkema to develop second-generation directed self-assembly (DSA) materials using high-x (chi) block copolymers. Brewer Science indicated these new materials target ...

Tags: Brewer Science, Node Patterning

ALD Tool Maker Picosun Extends Services Portfolio to Delivery of Precursors

Apr 27, 2017

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology firm Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland has launched a delivery service for ALD precursor chemicals, implemented in cooperation with several well‐known chemical manufacturers. Picosun ...

Tags: ALD Tool, Precursors

Taiwan IC Makers to Report Revenue Growth for Q2

Mar 23, 2017

Taiwan-based consumer IC suppliers are expected to report revenue growth of over 20% sequentially for the second quarter, while handset-related IC firms expect sales to recover from the bottom seen in the first quarter, according to ...

Tags: LCD driver, IC

China to Enhance Its Fabless IC Design Industry

Mar 18, 2017

The "Made in China 2025" (MIC 2025) plan, published by the China State Council in May of 2015, has demonstrated the country's ambition to enhance its fabless IC design industry in terms of market share and technology capability. Major ...

Tags: IC design, mobile device, PC

Prices of 12-Inch Blank Wafers to Rise 10-20%

Dec 9, 2016

Chipmakers including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics (UMC) and Micron Technology have been informed by their upstream suppliers that prices for 12-inch blank silicon wafers will rise by up to 20% ...

Tags: Blank Wafers, Semiconductor

Infineon Acquires Dutch Firm Innoluce in Autonomous Driving Push

Oct 13, 2016

Microelectronics company Infineon Technologies has acquired Innoluce BV, a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Based on the know-how of Innoluce, Infineon will develop chip components for ...

Tags: Infineon Technologies, Innoluce BV, acquisition

CNR-IMM Italy Using Sentech Peald System for New High-K Materials on Wide-Bandgap Devices

Oct 12, 2016

SENTECH Instruments GmbH of Berlin, Germany says that the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (CNR-IMM) in Catania – which is part of the Physics and Matter Technologies Department (DSFTM) of the National Research Council ...

Tags: SENTECH Instruments GmbH, CNR-IMM

Liu Zhenya Visits Helmholtz Association, TUB, Fraunhofer IPK

Sep 28, 2016

July 7-8, Germany --- Mr. Liu Zhenya, Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) talked with Professor Otmar Wiestler, Helmholtz Association's Acting President and Mr. Christian Thomsen, ...

Tags: Liu Zhenya, GEIDCO, Christian Thomsen

AppliedMicro, Macom and BrPhotonics Demo First 100Gb/s PAM-4 Single-Wavelength Solution Enabling 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s Connectivity in QSFP Transceivers

Sep 21, 2016

Applied Micro Circuits Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides silicon-based computing and connectivity solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers), BrPhotonics (BrP) of Campinas-SP, Brazil (a joint venture ...

Tags: Applied Micro, BrP, MACOM

Taiwan Fingerprint Sensor Suppliers to Post Strong

Sep 17, 2016

Taiwan-based fingerprint sensor suppliers including Egis Technology (Egistec), Elan Microelectronics and FocalTech Systems are set to post brisk sales for the third quarter of 2016 buoyed by strong demand for smartphones, according to ...

Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, smartphones

University of Colorado Boulder Develops Method for Room-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition

Sep 7, 2016

As part of the Local Control of Materials Synthesis (LoCo) program of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) have developed the new electron-enhanced atomic layer deposition ...

Tags: EE-ALD, LoCo, DARPA

Skyworks Appoints New Chief Financial Officer as Donald Palette Retires

Aug 31, 2016

Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that Kris Sennesael has joined it as senior VP & chief financial officer. Sennesael was most recently chief financial officer for ...

Tags: Skyworks, Kris Sennesael, senior VP&chief financial officer

China's Share of Fingerprint Sensor Shipments up

Aug 26, 2016

Due to fast growing use of smartphone-based mobile payment services in the China market, both international and domestic vendors, including white-box ones, have adopted fingerprint recognition functions for their smartphones. Consequently, ...

Tags: Fingerprint Sensor, smartphone

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