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For its fiscal full-year 2024 (ended 29 June), Lumentum Holdings Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which designs and makes optical and photonic products for optical networks and lasers for industrial and consumer markets) has reported revenue of $1359.2m, down 23.1% on $1767m in fiscal 2023...

To realize true commercialization of the high-resolution micro-LED displays, reducing LED chip size without losing efficiency is one of the key challenges to be solved urgently, especially for the phosphide-base red micro-LED which – due to material characteristics – is more vulnerable to efficiency drop than blue and green as chip size shrinks...

LGD in TECH of Carlsbad, CA, USA, a consortium dedicated to facilitating collaboration between diamond growers and global technology, scientific and industrial sectors, has appointed Rod St. Michel as director of strategic partnerships, bringing together diamond growers, diamond users, and R&D entities...

VueReal Inc of Waterloo, ON, Canada has appointed Shawn Mills as VP of engineering, overseeing the development and integration of cartridge technology, backplane design, and micro-LED device engineering. “The company’s MicroSolid Printing platform is truly transformative,” comments Mills...

VueReal has appointed Jason K. Ruppert as VP of operations, leading production and scale-up activities related to cartridge fabrication and MicroSolid Printing, including capacity planning, vendor and supplier management, quality control and production planning...

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp says that on 1 October it will begin shipping samples of its new 200Gbps PIN-photodiode (PD) chip for use in next-generation optical transceivers to support 800Gbps and 1.6Tbps fiber communication...

Riber S.A. of Bezons, France — which makes molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources — says that it has sold an MBE 412 cluster platform for delivered in 2025) to a leading US-based manufacturer of infrared imaging sensor materials for ground- and space-based astronomy...

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) — an economic development partnership agency of the federal government and 13 state governments including Pennsylvania — has awarded $600,000 to Penn State University’s Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance (SCIA, launched in early April) to develop a series of educational courses, workshops and paid academic and industrial internships focused on workforce development in Pennsylvania for the growing semiconductor industry...

For second-quarter 2024, Guerrilla RF Inc (GRF) of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported revenue of $6.1m, up 61.7% on $3.8m a year ago. The firm develops and manufactures radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) for wireless OEMs in markets including network infrastructure for 5G/4G macro and small-cell base stations, SATCOM, cellular repeaters/DAS, automotive telematics, military communications, navigation, and high-fidelity wireless audio...

SemiQ Inc of Lake Forest, CA, USA — which designs, develops and manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors and 150mm SiC epitaxial wafers for high-voltage applications — has added an S7 package to its QSiC family of 1200V, half-bridge MOSFET and Schottky diode SiC power modules. The new products further enhance design flexibility by providing compact, high-efficiency, high-performance options for new designs while supporting drop-in-replacement in legacy systems that require more efficient operation...

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) of Freiburg, Germany has used metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to fabricate and characterize aluminum yttrium nitride (AlYN), enabling the development of new, diverse applications...

VisIC Technologies Ltd of Ness Ziona, Israel – a fabless supplier of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) transistors for automotive, industrial and data-center applications – has added Wolfgang Wondrak to its team as a consultant...

SweGaN AB of Linköping, Sweden — which develops and manufactures custom gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) epitaxial wafers (based on a unique growth technology) for telecoms, satcoms, defense and power electronics applications — has reported orders in first-half 2024 for its benchmark QuanFINE epiwafers worth SEK17m, including three large frame agreements from undisclosed major telecom and defense market players. The firm has reported a 100% increase in orders year-on-year and begun deliveries from its new facility in Linköping as it progresses in its scale-up...

For second-quarter 2024, 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 $27.9m, up 23% on $22.7m last quarter and 50% on $18.6m a year ago, and exceeding the guidance of $25.5–27.5m. This reflects strong demand in various sectors, including data-center applications and satellite solar cells...

For second-quarter 2024, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instrument Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $175.9m, up 1% on $174.5m last quarter and 9% on $161.6m a year ago...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that Vitesco Technologies of Regensburg, Germany (which develops and manufactures drive technologies and electrification solutions for electro-mobility) has selected its CoolGaN Transistors 650V to improve the power efficiency of its Gen5+ GaN Air DC–DC converter. The transistors are said to significantly improve the overall system performance while minimizing system cost and increasing ease of use. As a result, Vitesco created a new generation of DC–DC converters that are said to set new standards in power density (efficiency of over 96%) and sustainability for power grids, power supplies, and OBCs...

For second-quarter 2024, gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor of Torrance, CA, USA has reported revenue of $20.5m, down 12.6% on $23.2m last quarter but up 13% on $18.1m a year ago, and at the top of the $20m±$0.5m guidance range. Revenue for first-half 2024 was up nearly 40% year-on-year...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and develops and manufactures high-power industrial blue lasers — has announced a strategic collaboration with Lasers4NetZero, an initiative dedicated to advancing sustainable practices...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has officially opened the first phase of a new 200mm-wafer silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor fab at its Kulim 3 site in Malaysia. Malaysian Prime Minister The Right Honourable Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Chief Minister of the state of Kedah The Right Honourable Dato’ Seri Haji Muhammad Sanusi Haji Mohd Nor joined Infineon’s CEO Jochen Hanebeck to symbolically launch production...

In booth #B83 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2024) exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany (23–25 September), the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is to lead a dynamic interoperability demonstration featuring live collaboration between 34 member companies...