Intel expects that its workforce will decline by 5 percent as it heads into a year in which revenue is likely to be flat. Intel announced its expectations for a decline in its workforce in the wake of its fourth quarter earnings report. ...
Vuzix Corporation has entered into a development agreement with a major consumer electronics brand to develop and incorporate Vuzix advanced see-through waveguide optics technology into a pair of next generation Smart Glasses. The agreement ...
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There's a sensor in a bra, in your socks, on your wrist, attached to your chest, in the ears: wearable tech is spreading all over the body. The growing use of embedded wearable devices connected to a smartphone is spawning a massive ...
BlackBerry has filed a copyright infringement suit against a company co-founded by Ryan Seacrest that makes a keyboard case for the iPhone. On Friday the struggling smartphone maker filed a lawsuit against Typo Products LLC, a company ...
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With the continued growth of the global medical device market demand and the increasing levels of health care, medical supplies market demand is on the high growth trend year by year. Meanwhile SMEs in China medical supplies industry has ...
Tags: Bandage, Gauze, Isolation Gown, Nurse Cap, Face Mask, Surgical Instruments
Despite significant headwinds, several medtech companies flourished in the past year while several stumbled. Here are five of the most successful: DexCom, a glucose monitoring specialist, has seen the value of its stock nearly triple in ...
Tags: medical device, medtech companies
Faced with slumping sales, Solta Medical (Hayward, CA) may be looking for a suitor. The aesthetic medical device manufacturer may cut jobs or put itself up for sale in an effort to improve its finances. Solta focuses on devices for skin ...
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For third-quarter 2013, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has reported revenue of $7.3m, down 28% on $10.1m a year ago ...
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With analysts predicting significant growth in the silicon carbide (SiC) power device market, in order to meet an anticipated spike in demand Japan’s Toshiba is expanding its family of 650V SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBD). The ...
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US-based biomaterial company Amedica has introduced its new Valeo II anterior lumbar (AL) interbody fusion device, indicated for intervertebral body fusion of the spine in skeletally mature patients. The silicon nitride anterior lumbar ...
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MedPlast has acquired Orthoplastics, the UK-based manufacturer of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) products and components. Orthoplastics is a major supplier of UHMWPE products to the strictly regulated orthopedic implant ...
Tags: MedPlast, Polyethylene
Due to the slow growth in the GaAs device market and increasing use of multi-band GaAs power amplifiers in cellular applications, total demand for semi-insulating (SI) GaAs epitaxial substrates (from manufacturers such as IQE, VPEC, Kopin, ...
Tags: EPI Production, Electronics
A strong close to 2012 allowed the gallium arsenide device market to grow by about 2% to record revenue of slightly more than $5.3bn for the year, due mainly to the cellular segment, as most other segments for GaAs devices were flat or ...
Tags: GaAs Industry, Electrical
Apple has yet again swept the market with the launch of the new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. The new cell phones have acted as a propeller for sapphire substrate manufacturers and LED manufacturers with the introduction of new fingerprint ...
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has introduced what it claims are the world's first 6-inch gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) wafers for manufacturing RF power transistors for both military and commercial use. The ...