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For fourth-quarter 2021, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €180.9m (the highest for 10 years), up 38% on €130.8m in Q3 and up 67% on €108.1m a year ago...

As part of the call for projects ‘Industry Stimulus Plan - Strategic Sectors’ launched by the France’s Ministry of Industry, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France – which designs and makes molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems and evaporators – has been awarded public funding to finance its 300mm pilot line...

For fourth-quarter 2021, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA – which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials – has reported revenue of $37.7m, exceeding both the initial guidance range of $34-36m (provided on 27 October) and the increased guidance range of $36–$37m. Despite usually being a down quarter for AXT, this is up 9% on $34.6m last quarter and up 40% on $27m a year ago, representing an eighth consecutive quarter of growth and a fourth consecutive quarter over $30m...

Engineered substrate manufacturer Soitec has announced a new fabrication facility at its headquarters in Bernin, near Grenoble, France, primarily to manufacture new silicon carbide (SiC) wafers targeted at the electric vehicle (EV) and industrial markets. The extension will also support Soitec’s 300mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) activities...

POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — a designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for the data-center and telecom markets — says that its common shares have been approved for listing and are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol ‘POET’ on 14 March...

In booth #1324 at the 37th annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2022) in Houston, Texas (20-24 March), GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (a fabless developer of gallium nitride-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications) is showcasing its lineup of power electronics solutions, including the following...

In booth 825 at the 37th annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2022) in Houston, Texas (20-24 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA — which designs and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) for high-voltage power conversion — is hosting in-production products from customers representing a broad range of markets. Also, its engineering experts are presenting several technological innovations driving both the usability and adoption of GaN industry-wide...

As the materials with currently the most development potential, the output value of ‘third-generation’ power semiconductors – i.e. wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors with high-power and high-frequency characteristics, including silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), that are used mainly in electric vehicles (EVs) and the fast-charging battery market – is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 48% from $980m in 2021 to $4.71bn in 2025, reckons market research firm TrendForce...

In booth #534 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2022) in Houston, TX, USA (20-24 March), Nexperia B.V. of Nijmegen, the Netherlands (a subsidiary of Wingtech Technology Co Ltd) is demonstrating its latest developments in power electronics, spanning a range of recent innovations including...

Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA – which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) and integrated circuits for power management applications – has announced the availability of the EPC9160, a dual-output synchronous buck converter reference design board operating at 2MHz switching frequency that converts an input voltage of 9-24V to a 3.3-5V output voltage and delivers up to 15A continuous current for both outputs...

Lumentum Holdings Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which designs and makes photonic products for optical networks and lasers in industrial and consumer markets) and Ayar Labs of Santa Clara, CA, USA, whose integrated optical I/Os are targeted at artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, high-performance computing (HPC), 5G, and light detection & ranging (LIDAR), have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement to deliver CW-WDM MSA (continuous-wave wavelength division multiplexing multi-source agreement)-compliant external laser sources in high volume...

Japan-based ROHM Semiconductor says that California-based luxury electric vehicle (EV) company Lucid is using its silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (SiC MOSFET) in its first car, the Lucid Air, for which customer deliveries are now underway...

At the Optical Fiber Communications conference (OFC 2022) in San Diego, CA, USA (8-10 March), Ranovus Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (which develops and manufactures multi-terabit photonics interconnect solutions for data-center and communications networks) and TE Connectivity (which designs and makes sensors and connectors) have announced that their strategic collaboration has delivered the world’s first Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) platform based on Ranovus’ Odin 800Gbps Analog-Drive CPO 2.0 architecture with TE’s CPx fine-pitch socket interposer technology...

At the Optical Fiber Communications conference (OFC 2022) in San Diego, CA, USA (8-10 March), Ranovus Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (which develops and manufactures multi-terabit photonics interconnect solutions for data-center and communications networks) has announced the availability of its protocol-agnostic Odin 100G optical I/O cores based on GF Fotonix, the new next-generation monolithic platform of US-based GlobalFoundries. GF Fotonix is reckoned to be first in the industry to combine 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering what is claimed to be best-in-class performance at scale...

GlobalFoundries (GF) of Malta, NY, USA (which has operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) says that it is collaborating with firms including Broadcom Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, Marvell and NVIDIA, along with photonics companies including Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu, to deliver feature-rich solutions to solve challenges facing data centers...

Murata company pSemi Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has expanded its RF SOI portfolio with the first SP4T (single-pole four-throw) switches for wideband and high-frequency applications up to 67GHz...

At the Optical Fiber Communications conference (OFC 2022) in San Diego, CA, USA (6-10 March), EFFECT Photonics b.v. – a spin off from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) in The Netherlands that develops DWDM optical system-on-chip components using indium phosphide (InP)-based multi-channel photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for mobile networks and data-centers – announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire coherent optical digital signal processing (DSP) and forward-error correction (FEC) technology as well as a highly experienced engineering team from global communications company Viasat Inc of Carlsbad, CA, USA...

Canada’s government has announced the Semiconductor Challenge Callout, providing CDN$150m through its Strategic Innovation Fund to make targeted investments to build on Canada’s domestic strengths associated with the development and supply of semiconductors. He also announced CDN$90m in funding for the National Research Council of Canada’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC)...

As part of its previously announced $1bn investment in silicon carbide (SiC) over the next 10 years, engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA is accelerating its investment in 150mm and 200mm SiC substrate and epitaxial wafer manufacturing with large-scale factory expansions in Easton, Pennsylvania, and Kista, Sweden...

NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA – a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of silicon photonics and hybrid photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based lasers, modules and subsystems for high-speed communications – says that it has shipped more than 1 million single and quad drivers for PAM4 transceivers used in hyperscale data-center networks...