News Archive

February 2025

27 February 2024

Crack-free low threading dislocation density AlGaN for sub-365nm UV

27 February 2024

Former ams Osram CEO Alexander Everke to succeed Kim Schindelhauer as chairman of Aixtron’s Supervisory Board

26 February 2024

Penn State granted $4.3m of US CHIPS Act funding via MMEC

26 February 2024

Nimy’s $1.15m share placement to fund follow-up drilling at gallium discovery

26 February 2024

India’s Archean investing £12m in Scotland’s Clas-SiC

26 February 2024

Silanna UV launches NozzleShield UV water dispenser disinfection technology

26 February 2024

Aeluma appoints former NVIDIA finance leader Mike Byron to board

25 February 2024

Skyworks’ Broad Markets revenue returns to year-on-year growth

25 February 2024

TekSiC launches Xforge PVT high-temperature induction heating furnace for physical vapor transport crystal growth

24 February 2024

Ennostar Inc merging EPISTAR and Lextar into Ennostar Corp

24 February 2024

NUBURU agrees strategic transaction with private equity investment group

21 February 2024

University of Michigan awarded up to $7.5m to bring heat-resistant silicon carbide sensing and computing chips from lab to fab

21 February 2024

SounDigital uses Infineon’s 100V normally-off E-mode CoolGaN transistors

21 February 2024

First Solar announces final sale amount of 2024 Section 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production tax credits

20 February 2024

AlScN-barrier GaN HEMT with record high on-current

20 February 2024

ST launches SiPho and next-gen BiCMOS technologies for higher-performing cloud optical interconnect in data centers and AI clusters

20 February 2024

SemiQ launches 1200V SiC full-bridge modules to simplify development of solar inverters, energy storage and battery charging applications

20 February 2024

BluGlass receives AUS$120,000 order for specialized GaN laser bars

19 February 2024

Lumileds adds LUXEON HL2X-V LED

19 February 2024

Lumileds’ LUXEON C ES enables small, high-output, complex, multi-color arrays

19 February 2024

Infinera’s acquisition by Nokia expected to complete on or about 28 February

19 February 2024

Sivers appoints Alexander McCann as strategic senior advisor

19 February 2024

CGD raises $32m in Series C funding round

18 February 2024

Infineon launches CoolGaN G3 Transistor in new silicon-footprint packages

17 February 2024

Wolfspeed’s revenue falls 7% in December quarter

14 February 2024

OIF unites 35 member companies in interoperability demos at OFC

13 February 2024

Gallium oxide JFETs reach beyond 10kV breakdown

13 February 2024

Qorvo’s quarterly revenue hit by mass-tier Android 5G demand falling faster than expected

13 February 2024

Sivers signs MOU with optical infrastructure firm for high-volume production of laser arrays

13 February 2024

Infineon releases first silicon carbide products to customers based on 200mm silicon carbide wafers

12 February 2024

IQE raising £18m by issuing convertible loan notes

12 February 2024

Infineon adds Q-DPAK and TOLL packages to industrial CoolSiC MOSFETs 650V G2 range

11 February 2024

VueReal adds chief commercial officer

11 February 2024

CGD’s senior VP of global sales to lead expansion into additional markets

11 February 2024

Former Wolfspeed CEO Gregg Lowe joins Power Integrations’ board

11 February 2024

Power Integrations’ CEO Balu Balakrishnan to retire

10 February 2024

CEA-Leti presents advances in integrated optics on silicon

10 February 2024

AlixLabs showcasing latest APS findings at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning

10 February 2024

Taiyo Nippon Sanso selling BRUTE Peroxide in Japan

6 February 2024

InGaN laser diodes on c-plane lateral overgrowth material

6 February 2024

Nimy collaborating with M2i to secure gallium supply for US government and defense industry

6 February 2024

Silicon carbide patent activity grows strongly in Q4/2024, reports KnowMade

6 February 2024

Philip Brace to succeed Liam K. Griffin as president & CEO of Skyworks

5 February 2024

Navitas’ GaN and SiC devices adopted in Dell’s family of 60–360W AI notebook adapters

5 February 2024

MACOM European Semiconductor Center wins multi-year contract for France 2030-funded MAGENTA program

5 February 2024

Teledyne HiRel releases wideband 50GHz RF switch for K bands and beyond

5 February 2024

SBTi validates onsemi near-term science-based targets for emissions reduction

5 February 2024

APC chooses Luminus as worldwide sales channel and go-to-market partner

4 February 2024

AlixLabs collaborates with Linköping University

4 February 2024

Cree LED launches XLamp XP-L Photo Red S Line LEDs

4 February 2024

Lumentum appoints Michael Hurlston as president & CEO as Alan Lowe retires

3 February 2024

Vishay launches 650V and 1200V silicon carbide Schottky diodes in SOT-227 package

3 February 2024

Riber’s full-year revenue grows 5% to €41.2m in 2024

3 February 2024

Mitsubishi Electric joins Horizon Europe’s FLAGCHIP project

3 February 2024

POET engaged by global financial services firm to develop custom optical engine

3 February 2024

Teradyne and Infineon partner on power semiconductor testing

January 2025

31 January 2024

Gallium nitride power semiconductors to reach adoption tipping points in multiple industries in 2025, predicts Infineon

31 January 2024

Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available

31 January 2024

VueReal raises US$40.5m in Series C funding round

30 January 2024

GaN complementary logic circuit building blocks

30 January 2024

BluGlass showcases new product capability for quantum applications at Photonics West

29 January 2024

Forge Nano adds cleanroom, tripling ALD cluster tool production space

29 January 2024

Infineon’s new CoolSiC Automotive MOSFET 1200V selected by FORVIA HELLA

29 January 2024

UK-based Quantum Science expands into new manufacturing facility

29 January 2024

Indichip to construct $1.4bn silicon carbide fab

28 January 2024

Compound semiconductor market growing at 10.9% CAGR from $44.5bn in 2023 to $111.6bn in 2032

28 January 2024

Science-Based Targets initiative approves Lumentum’s near- and long-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets

28 January 2024

Celestial AI appoints Lip-Bu Tan to board

28 January 2024

Luminus adds red and blue multi-mode lasers

28 January 2024

IQE raises full-year 2024 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance

28 January 2024

PseudolithIC raises $6m in seed funding to accelerate development and commercialization of hybrid semiconductors

27 January 2024

TRUMPF and iThera demo VCSEL-based subsystem for optoacoustic medical imaging and sensing

27 January 2024

Ortel transfers C-band high-power cw laser from Emcore fab to Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre

27 January 2024

III–V Epi advocates GaAs epi regrowth for emerging semiconductor laser applications

27 January 2024

Photon Design previews new quantum dot simulation tool at Photonics West

24 January 2024

ProPhotonix launches 265nm UVC LED Area Light at Photonics West

24 January 2024

MACOM signs preliminary memorandum of terms for US CHIPS Act funding

24 January 2024

Quintessent and IQE establish quantum dot laser & SOA epiwafer supply chain for AI optical interconnects

23 January 2024

NUBURU regains compliance with NYSE American Market

23 January 2024

Gallium arsenide nano-ridge laser diodes on 300mm silicon

23 January 2024

StratEdge partners with Vitale Engineering as manufacturer’s representative for Upstate New York

22 January 2024

Wolfspeed launches Gen 4 MOSFET technology platform

22 January 2024

UK’s North East advanced material electronics sector to contribute over 7000 jobs and nearly £900m gross value-added in next five years

22 January 2024

First Solar endows Missouri S&T professorship in Critical Energy Materials

22 January 2024

Element Six unveils copper diamond composite to power advanced semiconductor devices

22 January 2024

SemiQ launches QSiC 1700V series of high-reliability, low-loss SiC MOSFETs

21 January 2024

EPC launches 3-phase BLDC motor drive inverter reference design

21 January 2024

Lynred launches Eyesential SW shortwave IR sensor for machine vision

21 January 2024

Thorlabs acquires strategic partner Praevium Research

20 January 2024

US CHIPS Incentives Program awards finalized for Corning, Edwards Vacuum and Infinera

20 January 2024

Innoscience files lawsuits against Infineon in China

17 January 2024

Aehr’s quarterly revenue hit by order delays

16 January 2024

Improving hole injection in deep UV LEDs

16 January 2024

Guerrilla RF unveils new GaN-on-SiC HEMT power amplifiers dice for high-performance RF

16 January 2024

METLEN investing €295.5m in bauxite, alumina and gallium production in Greece

16 January 2024

Vermont Gallium Nitride Tech Hub awarded $23.7m from US Economic Development Administration

15 January 2024

Wolfspeed completes $200m at-the-market equity offering

15 January 2024

onsemi completes acquisition of Qorvo’s SiC JFET business for $115m

15 January 2024

EPC introduces fully configured motor drive inverter reference design

14 January 2024

MACOM unveils five-year, $345m plan to expand 100mm GaN and GaAs production and introduce 150mm GaN

14 January 2024

Veeco tightens revenue and EPS guidance ranges for Q4 and full-year 2024

14 January 2024

High-breakdown-voltage P-GaN gate HEMTs with threshold voltage of 7.1V

13 January 2024

Sivers signs CHIPS Act contracts with Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub

13 January 2024

Micro-LED display market to grow to 34.6 million units by 2031

13 January 2024

PHOTON IP raises €4.75m seed funding led by Innovation Industries, joined by Faber, BOM and PhotonDelta

13 January 2024

CEA-Leti presenting at Photonics West, including Invited Paper on optical phased arrays for LiDAR

10 January 2024

SemiLEDs’ revenue falls slightly in December quarter

10 January 2024

VueReal appoints VP of semiconductor engineering

10 January 2024

Plessey and Meta develop brightest red micro-LED display for AR glasses

10 January 2024

Teledyne HiRel releases high-power 30MHz–5GHz RF GaN switch

9 January 2024

Fast gallium oxide MOCVD growth

9 January 2024

imec reports first full wafer-scale fabrication of electrically pumped GaAs-based nano-ridge lasers on 300mm silicon

9 January 2024

Teledyne Imaging Sensors places repeat order for Riber MBE 412 cluster system

9 January 2024

ROHM samples 1kW-class high-power IR laser diode

8 January 2024

Aledia makes available micro-LED technology for immersive AR

8 January 2024

Aehr receives initial FOX-XP system order from GaN power semi supplier

7 January 2024

Almae orders Riber GSMBE production system

7 January 2024

USPTO issues Notice of Allowance for AmpliTech’s MMIC LNA patent application

7 January 2024

InnoScience floats in IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange

6 January 2024

NUBURU announces board and committee appointments

6 January 2024

Voyant launches FMCW LiDAR sensor on a chip

6 January 2024

DOE announces $179m funding for Microelectronics Science Research Centers

3 January 2024

Polar Light achieves 625nm-wavelength red pyramidal micro-LED

2 January 2024

Porotech advances partnership with Foxconn from R&D to mass production of AR and micro-LED technology

2 January 2024

Neo completes sale of Rare Metals facility in Quapaw, Oklahoma