LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100bn and power conversion electronics to $15bn over the next ten years, reckons market analyst firm Lux Research in the report “Winning the Jump Ball: Sorting Winners from ...
Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound ...
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Silicon photonics firm Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the communications, computing, sensing and detection markets, says that, at its ...
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Swiss-based medical devices firm Debiotech has entered into an exclusive partnership agreement with Valtronic for the manufacturing of the electronic Controller unit for Debiotech's insulin product JewelPUMP. The insulin pump, which is ...
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Mobile devices will be able to charge up to 40% faster. Qualcomm has unveiled the Quick Charge 1.0 that can reduce the charging time of devices such as smartphones, tablets and mobile phones. The company claimed that the phones ...
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Researchers in China have developed an atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique to create distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR) for increasing nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode (LED) output power by up to 43% [Hongjun Chen et al, Appl. ...
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Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), estimates that its engineered substrates (which are used in ...
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Sharp Microelectronics Europe has announced some new Mini Zenigata COB LEDs with higher forward voltage, and SSL evaluation kits for recently announced Mega Zenigata LEDs. Sharp Microelectronics continues to expand its packaged LED ...
Sharp provides its customers with the new “LED Evaluation Kit”, an optimized service tool to enable them in future to easily and quickly test the best Mega ZENIGATA LEDs themselves and simulate the use of COB LED arrays in the ...
Vestel is pleased to announce its start in LED Lighting as well as the appointment of Uwe Hock as its new Sales & Marketing Director, LED Lighting for Vestel Germany in Garching / Munich. Uwe Hock joined Vestel Germany in November 2012 ...
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The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has appointed three new members to its Board of Directors. They are David Baillie, chief executive officer, CamSemi, Jeff Waters, senior vice president and general manager, Altera and Dr. Albert ...
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Brewer Science Inc of Rolla, MO, USA, which provides specialty materials, integrated processes, and laboratory-scale wafer processing equipment, plans to build a high-volume manufacturing facility in Vichy, MO, to produce materials for ...
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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
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The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...
The top 25 IC design companies in China grew an average of 30%, reports DigiTimes, with State Microelectronics leading the way on 170% growth. Galaxycore and Spreadtrum came next with growth in the 60s of per cent, followed by China's ...
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