Rudolph Technologies has secured multiple orders from two advanced packaging service suppliers for its Firefly inspection systems. The system helps manufacturers in identifying defects earlier in the process, improving reliability of ...
Tags: advanced packaging, semiconductor
Krones, the manufacturer of beverage filling and packaging technology, has said that its revenue increased 16.5% year-on-year, from €772.1m to €899.4m. This strong growth rate cannot be extrapolated to the whole year because ...
Taiwan's LCD monitor shipments dropped 6.2% on year to reach below 20 million units in the first quarter of 2017, while worldwide shipments also experienced a similar decline of 6.8% on year. For the second quarter, Taiwan's volume will ...
Tags: LCD monitor, LCD
Finnish paper and pulp firm Metsa Board has invested €38m in a new extrusion coating line at its paper mill in northern Sweden. The new line at the company’s Husum mill is now producing initial orders. It has an annual capacity ...
Tags: paper mill, pulp
FCA US will supply an additional 500 of its Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans to Waymo’s self-driving program. Last year, the automobile company delivered 100 modified minivans to Waymo. Production of the 500 minivansi s expected ...
Tags: Chrysler, Hybrid minivans
For first-quarter 2017, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported revenue of €9.2m, up dramatically from €1.4m a year ago. ...
Tags: MBE systems, effusion cells
For Taiwan-based makers of servers for direct sale to clients, there has been a reshuffle of orders for servers used in cloud computing data centers from Microsoft, Facebook and Google in 2017, according to Taiwan-based server supply chain ...
Tags: servers, cloud computing, Microsoft
Supply of LED chips produced by China- and Taiwan-based makers has been tight and the situation will remain until the third quarter of 2017 when major China makers ramp up their new production capacity, according to China-based LED ...
Tags: LED chips, LED device
China’s installation rush by June 30th has revived market demand beginning from last week. However, the speed of rising has been slow. Thus, price of polysilicon remained falling this week. Some price quotations even fell below US $ ...
Tags: PV Demand, Polysilicon
Naura Technology (formerly Beijing Sevenstar Electronics) has started shipping ion etch equipment for the manufacture of 14nm chips to chipmakers, while Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) is being engaged in the development of etch ...
Tags: chipmakers, Electronics, chip
Prices for LED automotive headlights are decreasing to close to those for HID (high-intensity discharge) models, and therefore adoption of the LED solutions will grow fast, according to LED automotive lighting module maker Laster Tech. ...
Tags: LED automotive headlight, LED
In view of fast growing demand for LED automotive lighting in the China market, some Taiwan-based LED packaging service providers and LED automotive lighting module makers have been competing for orders there, according to industry sources. ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED devices
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave broadband communications systems) has received follow-on orders from military customers for its X-Band line of gallium nitride (GaN)-based ...
Tags: Advantech Wireless, RF equipment
The iPhone 8 is expected to arrive towards the end of the year, and at this rate, the leaks and rumours will ensure very little is left to the imagination by the time it arrives. So why not add another report to the mix? This time, Nikkei ...
Tags: OLED Panels, iPhone
Germany-based inspection technology provider, Erhardt+Leimer (E+L) has appointed Rotocon as the local agent in South Africa. Under the partnership, two E+L Smartscan systems have already been installed at Spec Systems’ new RCSI 330 ...