According to LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, starting from August 2012, at least 5 M&A cases occurred in China and Taiwan; Epistar, for example, acquired 49% of Huga’s equity, and Sanan Opto acquired 120 million of FOREPI’s common stock. LEDinside indicated that starting from 2010, Chinese LED chip industries have aggressively invested in chips…
DetailsRichardson RFPD, Inc. today announces availability and full design support capabilities for an omni-directional heavy-duty, fully IP67 waterproof external M2M antenna from Taoglas USA, Inc. (Taoglas). The Pantheon MA760 is the first antenna on the market to combine two LTE multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) elements, one 2.4 GHz/5 GHz antenna and GPS in one high…
DetailsThere doesn’t seem to be room for argument that flat-panel displays have become a volatile commodity market. Two market research firms – NPD DisplaySearch and IHS iSuppli – come to different conclusions on the fate of the liquid crystal display (LCD) market this year. Within days of one another, NPD DisplaySearch and IHS iSuppli forecast…
DetailsAccording to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, given the amount of price growth experienced by PC DRAM since 4Q12, first tiered DRAM suppliers are making an increased effort to slow down their migration to Mobile DRAM. In the second quarter of this year, declines in the Mobile DRAM contract prices have eased, and price-competitive…
DetailsWPG Americas Inc. today announced a new franchise agreement with Achronix Semiconductor Corp. to distribute their line of high-density and high-performance application-targeted FPGAs. Achronix’s Speedster22i FPGAs are the industry’s most advanced FPGAs built on Intel’s ground breaking 22nm, 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology. The Speedster22i devices have up to 1.7 million, 4-input look-up-tables and consume half…
DetailsToshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC), a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, today announced that the company has developed second generation 19 nanometer process technology that it will apply to mass production of 2-bit-per-cell 64 gigabit NAND memory chips later this month. Toshiba has used the…
DetailsCHANDLER, Ariz.– (BUSINESS WIRE)– Amkor Technology, Inc. (AMKR) today announced that it has completed its previously announced offering of $225 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.375% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “Notes”). We expect to use the net proceeds of the Notes offering for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, capital…
DetailsSanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), today announced it has begun customer sampling of flash memory products based on its industry-leading 1Ynm process technology, which represents its second generation 19 nanometer (nm) manufacturing technology. SanDisk’s achievement of this breakthrough in semiconductor manufacturing takes its memory cell size from 19nm-by-26nm to 19nm-by-19.5nm, delivering a 25 percent reduction of…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc., a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, has won High Service Distributor of the Year from Kemet. The prestigious award was presented to Mouser during the Electronic Distribution Show in Las Vegas. Kemet also presented TTI with the Distributor of the Year Award for 2013 making it a clean sweep for the TTI/Mouser Team. Also…
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