In 2018, a mixed bag of higher prices, shortages, and new imaging applications is driving up total optoelectronics, sensors and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) sales by 11 percent and expected to set a ninth consecutive record-high level of combined revenues. With tight supplies of widely used power transistors and diodes driving up prices and new optical-imaging applications moving…
After roller coaster growth rates since the 2008 recession, the global power transistor market is expected to make a modest recovery, starting in 2016, according to the latest research from IC Insights. Over the next three years, sales are expected to reach record-high levels thanks to greater demand for energy efficiency and new connections to…
Ottawa, Ontario – GaN Systems, the leading developer of gallium nitride power switching semiconductors, has appointed Kruvand Associates as its representative in the US states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Specialist sales engineering and marketing company Kruvand has expertise in power, interconnect, thermal, electromechanical, RF & wireless active and passive components. As sales of…
El Segundo, Calif. – The photovoltaic (PV) inverter market is expected to drive semiconductor growth, particularly for discrete and analog semiconductors, over the next three years, according to a new IHS report. Revenue from semiconductors used in PV inverters increased by nine percent in 2014, reaching $386.1 million. IHS forecasts the PV inverter semiconductor market to…
After posting two years of negative growth, the power transistor market, which historically has driven growth in the $21 billion discrete semiconductor industry, is back on track to grow eight percent in 2014, according to IC Insights. The power transistor market posted the first back-to-back annual sales declines in more than 30 years in 2012…