IQE, the compound semiconductor wafer supplier, claims to have the world’s first commercially available 200 mm (8”) VCSEL epiwafer. The wafers will be used in the wireless, sensing and display markets. IQE’s 200mm epiwafers will enable a step-change in unit economics for compound semiconductors, leading to the expansion of the market for IQE. The increase ...
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Innoscience Technology, the GaN-on-Si power specialist and Silanna Semiconductor have demo-ed , a 65 W Active Clamp Flyback (AFC) reference design with 30 W/in3 uncased power density which achieves efficiency levels of greater than 94% @ 230 Vac and has a no-load power consumption of less than 25 mW. The design combines the performance of ...
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The semiconductor industry has passed the peak of the rollercoaster market cycle and its beginning its descent, said Malcolm Penn CEO of Future Horizons at IFS2022 in London yesterday. Although 2022 won’t be a disaster, 2023 will be, said Penn. This year the growth forecast is +6%. +10% is still possible, but so is +4%. ...
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Quanergy Systems, the LiDAR sensor specialist, says that its Optical Phased Array (OPA) technology has a detection range of 250 metres. The range has increased 2.5 times in 15 months of development time, accelerating productisation of its S3 Series LiDAR – a solid state sensor using a scalable CMOS silicon manufacturing process. This test was conducted ...
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Communications Chasms can add to delays and costs in supply chains, warns Sondrel. As chip supply chains consist of a series of different subcontractors each independently doing a specific task, disconnects can easily happen between them. Unless the handover between each stage is overseen by someone who really understand the whole process, it is all ...
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IQE, the compound semiconductor wafer supplier, has announced a strategic partnership with Porotech, the microLED and GaN-based semiconductor technology specislist.. The focus of the partnership is to develop, scale and commercialise Porotech’s wafer technology that achieves all three colours (RGB) on a single 200 or 300mm GaN-based wafer for microLEDs, the applications for which include ...
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Marvell is to buyTanzanite Silicon Solutions, a developer of advanced Compute Express Link (CXL) technologies. Tanzanite’s expertise in CXL technology will help Marvell’s progress towards a fully composable cloud infrastructure. CXL connectivity is integral to Marvell’s data centre portfolio of compute, electro-optics, networking, security and storage. The benefits of CXL include infrastructure agility to instantly ...
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Tower Semiconductor, shortly to be absorbed by Intel, has launched the second generation of it 65nm BCD expanding operation to 24V and reducing Rdson by 20%. The company is also adding deep trench isolations to its 180nm BCD platform enabling up to 40% die size reduction for voltages up to 125V. The upgrades address the ...
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Advantech has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Tsai Ying Clean Energy (TYCE) for cooperation in developing the first “Made-in-Taiwan” hydrogen fuel cell electric bus (FCEB) management system, as well as jointly exploring domestic and international markets for it. The Taiwan government has announced its net-zero road map, focusing on energy efficiency, green energy, ...
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Trameto, the energy harvesting PMIC (EH PMIC) specialist, has closed a second round of seed funding. Investors are the Development Bank of Wales and u-blox. The bank is an existing equity investor and board observer, and u-blox will also join the board as an observer. “This funding round enables us to embark on the next part ...
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