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NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and develops and manufactures high-power industrial blue lasers — has engaged Northland Capital Markets as its financial advisor in connection with its evaluation of strategic alternatives. With assistance from Northland and its other advisors, the NUBURU will assess a full range of strategic alternatives, including a sale, merger, divestiture, recapitalization, going private transaction, additional financing, and other significant transactions...

For its fiscal first-quarter 2024 (to 29 December 2023) Skyworks Solutions Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $1201.5m, down 1.4% on $1218.8m last quarter and 9.6% on $1329.3m a year ago, but slightly above the midpoint of the $1175-1225m guidance...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that its new CoolSiC hybrid discrete with TRENCHSTOP 5 Fast-Switching insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and CoolSiC Schottky diode has been chosen by VMAX (a Chinese manufacturer of power electronics and motor drives for new energy vehicles) for its next-generation 6.6kW OBC/DC-DC on-board chargers. Infineon’s components come in a D2PAK package and combine ultra-fast TRENCHSTOP 5 IGBTs with half-rated free-wheeling SiC Schottky barrier diodes to achieve the optimum cost-performance ratio for both hard and soft-switching topologies. Due to their performance, optimized power density and quality, the power devices are suitable for VMAX’s on-board chargers...

Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has unveiled an automotive-qualified silicon carbide (SiC) field effect transistor (FET) offering what is claimed to be an industry-best on-resistance RDS(on) of 9m in a compact D2PAK-7L package...

For its fiscal second-quarter 2024 (to end-December 2023), Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA — which makes silicon carbide (SiC) materials and power semiconductor devices — has reported revenue of $208.4m, up 5.6% on $197.4m last quarter and up nearly 20% on $173.8m a year ago, and above the midpoint of the $192–222m guidance range...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given a $300,000 grant to Xiaoqing Song, an assistant professor in the University of Arkansas‘ Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, to support his research project focused on advancing high-density and high-operation-temperature traction inverters. His project explores the integration of gallium oxide ( Ga2O3) packaged power modules to enhance the power density and temperature range of electric vehicles (EVs)...

In its ‘Planet Navitas’ booth #1353 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2024) in the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, Long Beach, CA, USA (26-29 February), gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA is highlighting how GaN and SiC technology is enabling the latest solutions for fully electrified housing, transportation and industry. Examples range from TV power to home-appliance motors and compressors, electric vehicle (EV) charging, solar/micro-grid installations, and data-center power systems. Each highlights end-user benefits, such as increased portability, longer range, faster charging, and grid-independence, plus a focus on how low-carbon-footprint GaN and SiC technology can save over 6Gtons/year CO2 by 2050...

For fourth-quarter 2023, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system maker Riber S.A. of Bezons, France has reported revenue of €23m, up 48% on €15.6m in Q4/2022 a year ago, and following revenue of just €3.7m, €8.5m and €4m in Q1, Q2 and Q3/2023, respectively...

Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Anokiwave Inc – which provides high-performance silicon integrated circuits (ICs) for intelligent active array antennas for defense & aerospace, SATCOM and 5G applications. The transaction is expected to close during the March quarter...

Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has shipped a GEN20-Q molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system to Hermes-Epitek, a semiconductor and optoelectronics client based in the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan...

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MICLEDI Microdisplays B.V. of Leuven, Belgium — a fabless developer of micro-LED display modules for augmented reality (AR) glasses that was spun off from nanoelectronics research center IMEC in 2019 —showcased its range of red, green and blue (R, G and B) µLEDs at the SPIE AR-VR-MR 2024 exhibition in San Francisco, CA, USA (30–31 January), colocated with Photonics West 2024...

Teledyne e2v HiRel Electronics of Milpitas, CA, USA (part of the Teledyne Defense Electronics Group that provides solutions, sub-systems and components to the space, transportation, defense and industrial markets) has announced the availability of the model TDLNA0430SEP radiation-tolerant UHF to S-band low-noise amplifier (LNA), suitable for demanding high-reliability space applications where low noise figure, minimal power consumption and small package footprint are critical to mission success...

The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (which develops standards for the microelectronics industry) has published ‘JEP198: Guideline for Reverse Bias Reliability Evaluation Procedures for Gallium Nitride Power Conversion Devices’. Developed by the JC-70.1 Gallium Nitride Subcommittee of JEDEC’s JC-70 Wide Bandgap Power Conversion Semiconductor Committee (which was formed in October 2017 with 23 member companies, rising to over 80 now), JEP198 is available for free download from the JEDEC website...

Luminus Devices Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA – which designs and makes LEDs and solid-state technology (SST) light sources for illumination markets – has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of green and blue lasers catering to a wide range of applications including entertainment lighting, laser projection display, leveling and measurement, and biometric monitoring...

Independent power electronics company Quantum Power Transformation (QPT) of Cambridge, UK (which was founded in 2019) says that a second co-founder of GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (a fabless developer of gallium nitride-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications), Girvan Patterson, has joined his fellow co-founder Geoff Haynes, former VP of business development at GaN Systems, as an advisor to QPT. Patterson was CEO at GaN Systems (now part of Infineon) for over eight years and has been the founder of three major start-ups and led seven IPOs and M&A transactions...

The compound semiconductor substrate market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17% to $3.3bn in 2029, according to the report ‘Status of Compound Semiconductors Industry 2024’ by market analyst firm Yole Group...

Silvaco Group Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides electronic design automation software and semiconductor design IP for process and device development) has joined GaN Valley to help advance the state of the art in designing efficient gallium nitride (GaN) power devices and enable its customers to innovate with its Victory TCAD (technology computer-aided design) platform...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has announced its joint Innovation Application Center in Shenzhen with mobile charging and consumer electronics products firm Anker Innovations of Changsha, Hunan, China. With the center already fully operating, it is paving the way for more energy-efficient and CO2-saving charging solutions that support decarbonization...

Guerrilla RF Inc (GRF) of Greensboro, NC, USA — which develops and manufactures radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) for wireless applications — has announced the formal release of two ¼W linear power amplifiers PAs and two low-noise amplifiers LNAs earmarked specifically for the automotive market. All four devices were qualified to meet rigorous AEC-Q100 quality standards — a critical benchmark for semiconductor devices used in automotive applications. These new PAs and LNAs are used primarily in cellular compensators (essentially cellular ‘signal boosters’ serving to amplify and enhance cellular signals within the cabin of vehicles)...