According to the latest report by DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, the Chinese market has witnessed a surging demand for servers in 2018. The number of servers shipped to China will increase by 23% YoY in 2018, and account for 25.6% ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has received an order for an AIX G5+ C Planetary Reactor metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system from UK-based Plessey Semiconductors to boost its ...
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
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – has launched the Model 1998 cooled, coaxial ...
Tags: 5G Wireless, optical chip
The approximately $3bn RF power amplifier market is poised to expand at a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.2% over 2018-2028, as the widening expansion of 5G cellular networks will remain the main driver of RF power amplifier ...
Tags: Power electronics
Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and Yokneam, Israel (a supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions for servers, storage systems and hyper-converged infrastructure) has begun shipping 200GbE Ethernet ...
Tags: Copper Cables, Optical Cables
At the Touch Taiwan 2018 exhibition at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (29-31 August), vertically integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan is unveiling its micro-LED chip capabilities (with a die size ...
Tags: Micro-LED, RGB Display Module
Silvaco Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides electronic design automation and IP software tools for process and device development), Purdue University and Purdue Research Foundation have formed a partnership to extend Moore’s ...
Tags: TCAD tools
For fiscal first-quarter 2019 (ended 30 June 2018), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $692.7m, up 4.1% on $665.4m ...
Tags: Qorvo, Mobile Demand
For fiscal third-quarter 2018 (to end June), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – ...
Tags: indium phosphide, optical chip
Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns has announced that the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult – Wales’ first and the UK’s newest Catapult – will open its Innovation Centre, based in South East Wales, ...
PowerSphyr Inc of Danville, CA, USA – which delivers end-to-end wireless power charging solutions – and GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (a fabless developer of gallium nitride-based power switching semiconductors for ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which makes analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has signed a definitive agreement to buy private fabless semiconductor supplier Avnera Corp of Beaverton, OR, USA, a developer of analog system ...
Tags: analog, semiconductors
Akoustis Technologies Inc of Charlotte, NC, USA - which designs and manufactures patented BulkONE single-crystal piezoelectric bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications - has completed ...
Tags: Akoustis Technologies, RF filter
After beginning volume production of its first bulk-CMOS radio frequency (RF) switch in 2008, Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has now reached an annual run-rate far exceeding 1 billion and a cumulative shipments of 5 billion RF ...