SEMI July billings flat

July billings for sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were 0.4% up on June’s but 14.5% down y-o-y, says SEMI. It is the ninth consecutive y-o-y decline. June billings were $2.03 billion and July billings were $2.38 billion. “Total billings of North American equipment manufacturers for July were slightly up over June billings,” says SEMI CEO ...

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Welsh put £1.3m into compound process technology development

The Welsh Government has announced a £1.3 million project to develop compound semiconductor process technologies and new materials. Part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the ASSET project (Application Specific Semiconductor Etching Technology) is funded under the Welsh Government’s SMARTExpertise programme and is an industrially driven, collaborative project with partners across south Wales, including: ...

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Support for solar

The Science & Technology Committee has published a report on the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy in which it makes the following calls for solar power support: On large-scale solar policy: The Government must ensure that there is strong policy support for new onshore wind power and large-scale solar power projects for which there is local ...

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Power inductors for industrial and telecoms markets

TT Electronics has brought out two SMD power inductors: the HM66M series for use in high frequency power conversion systems and EMI filter applications, and the HM78M series for use in high density and high frequency DC/DC converter applications. The HM66M series power inductors are designed for the complex industrial and telecommunications markets. The HM66M is ...

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