Investment holding firm Long4Life has agreed to acquire South-Africa based contract packaging firm Inhle Beverages for around R360m ($27.2m). Based in Heidelberg of Gauteng, Inhle is specialized in the canning and bottling of carbonated ...
ROHM Semiconductor of Kyoto, Japan has launched what it claims is the industry’s smallest class (1608 size) of two-color chip LEDs. The SML-D22MUW also features a special design that is said to improve reliability along with a ...
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded its product lineup of infrared light-emitting diode (IR-LED) chips, which are mainly used as parts of photo-couplers for gate drivers in power semiconductor modules and parts of sensors for ...
MRSI Systems of North Billerica, MA, USA, which manufactures fully automated, high-precision die bonding and epoxy dispensing systems, has launched the MRSI-HVM3 high-speed die bonder to support high-volume manufacturing requirements for ...
Tags: Die Bonder, Photonics
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will join an alliance led by BMW to develop an autonomous driving platform, which can be used by multiple automakers across the world. FCA signed a memorandum of understanding with BMW Group, Intel and ...
In the ever-growing LED market, automotive LEDs are witnessing a rapid development. This is driven by various regulations enforced by governments around the world for fuel-efficient gasoline vehicles. In addition, manufacturers of hybrid ...
Tags: LED market, LED headlights
PET film demand in the packaging market is forecast to expand 2.4% annually to 322 million pounds in 2021, faster than any of the major packaging film resins. Growth will be driven by rising barrier requirements, particularly in food ...
Tags: PET film, packaging market
Mobileye, a subsidiary of chip-maker Intel, said that it will build a fleet of 100 level 4 SAE vehicles which will be tested across the US, Europe and Israel. The vehicles will be fitted with the technology developed by Mobileye including ...
Tags: Self-Driving Vehicles, Intel
For fiscal fourth-quarter 2017 (ended 1 July), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $149.4m (split about 50:50 between client-side/datacoms ...
Bridgelux Inc of Fremont, CA, USA (a vertically integrated manufacturer of solid-state light sources for lighting applications) has filed a counter claim against Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd in the US District Court for the ...
Tags: Bridgelux, LED products
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has unveilled its highest-flux-density LED. Packaged in a compact 4.0mm x 4.0mm footprint, LUXEON V can be driven harder than other LEDs in its class, it is reckoned, due to new die and packaging ...
Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd has launched the EL Micro Multi (1216) and EL Multi Color (2525) series with two chips and four chips, respectively, in ceramic packages, designed specifically for ambient lighting applications in ...
Tags: Everlight, SMD package
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has expanded its family of architectural lighting class LEDs with the new CLQ6A RGBW (red, green, blue and white) LED. Claimed to be the first individually addressable ...
Sonoma Creamery has secured a $10m equity investment from Svoboda Capital Fund IV (SC). Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1931, the Company is a Sonoma, California-based manufacturer and marketer of ...
Tags: Svoboda, Sonoma Creamery
Yole Développement’s ‘RF Power Market and Technologies 2017: GaN, GaAs and LDMOS Report’ forecasts that, after shrinking in 2015 and 2016 as telecom operators invested less, the total RF power semiconductor market ...
Tags: Semiconductor, 4G networks