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Singapore-based silicon photonic (SiPh) foundry services provider CompoundTek Pte Ltd has formed a strategic collaboration with China-based data-center transceiver provider Ningbo Hyper-silicon Technology Co Ltd (founded in 2019) to establish cost-effective high-volume SiPh wafer edge coupling test...

For its fiscal third-quarter 2023 (ended 1 April), 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 $383.4m, down 24.2% on $506m last quarter and 3% on $395.4m a year ago, and below the initial $430–460m guidance...

Materials, networking and laser technology firm Coherent Corp of Saxonburg, PA, USA (formerly II-VI Inc before it acquired Coherent in July 2022) and Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a program to scale manufacturing of silicon carbide (SiC) power electronics on a 200mm technology platform...

Hardinge Inc of Elmira, NY, USA (which designs, manufactures and distributes high-precision, computer-controlled machine tools) says that its BoulePro-200AX, with its Single-Step Dual-plane Compensation (SSDC) capability, has streamlined the silicon carbide (SiC) fabrication process of shaping an as-grown boule to wafer-ready puck...

Related to the directed new issue of shares worth SEK150m in April, chip and integrated module supplier Sivers Semiconductors AB of Kista, Sweden has now entered into a loan agreement with Formue Nord for financing up to SEK75m, of which SEK25m is a convertible loan at a fixed conversion rate of 9.61 SEK, corresponding to a dilution effect of about 1.1%...

At the Society for Information Display (SID)’s Display Week 2023 in Los Angeles (23–25 May), South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd is unveiling its second-generation LED technologies for future displays, including WICOP-Pixel-based micro-LED displays and Low Blue Light (LBL) displays that help to maintain the health of users’ eyes...

Sivers Photonics of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (a business unit of IC and integrated module supplier Sivers Semiconductors AB of Kista, Sweden) is evaluating how to expand its capacity to meet volumes of more than 1000 wafers per week. To make this possible Sivers Semiconductors has formed a strategic business development project, hired an advisor, and made changes in Photonics management...

Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA — the world’s largest independent provider of inertial navigation products to the aerospace & defense industry, with AS9100 aerospace-quality-certified manufacturing facilities in Budd Lake, NJ and Concord, CA — expects revenue from last-time buys of Broadband products to be about $20m, up from the $10m previously projected. The firm expects margins to be consistent with the historical margin performance for these products...

Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor of Torrance, CA, USA says that its underwritten public offering of 10 million shares of Class A common stock (announced on 23 May) will be at a price to the public of $8.00 per share. All of the share are being offered by Navitas. The gross proceeds (before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses) are expected to be $80m...

EV Group of St Florian, Austria – a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for semiconductor, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology applications – and Dymek Company Ltd of Hong Kong, an equipment distributor for the semiconductor, biomedical, data storage, photovoltaic and aerospace industries, have established a new joint venture company in Penang, Malaysia...

Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has filed complaints in the US District Court for the Central District of California and in the US International Trade Commission (ITC) asserting four patents of its foundational patent portfolio against Innoscience (Zhuhai) Technology Co Ltd and its affiliates...

Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor of Torrance, CA, USA says that its GeneSiC power semiconductors have been adopted by France-based Exide Technologies in order to ensure reliability, safety, ease-of-use and optimal charging in its high-frequency fast chargers for industrial material handling equipment...

Founded in 2020, Quantum Power Transformation (QPT) of Cambridge, UK claims to be the first company to create the technologies needed to enable GaN to operate at well over the existing limitations of 100kHz right up to 20MHz in high-power, high-voltage applications that use hard switching such as motor drive systems for HVAC, robotics etc. The technology opens up this important section of the GaN market that no-one else currently has solutions to address, the firm adds...

Silicon photonics-based chip-to-chip optical connectivity firm Ayar Labs of Santa Clara, CA, USA has raised an additional $25m in Series C1 funding, bringing its total Series C raise to $155m. The oversubscribed up-round was led by new investor Capital TEN. VentureTech Alliance also entered the Series C expansion that included participation by previous investors Boardman Bay Capital Management, IAG Capital Partners, NVIDIA, and Tyche Partners. Past strategic and financial investors include Applied Ventures, GlobalFoundries, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, Intel Capital and Lockheed Martin Ventures...

Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd (CGD) — which was spun out of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering’s Electrical Power and Energy Conversion group in 2016 and designs, develops and commercializes power transistors and ICs that use GaN-on-silicon substrates — has introduced a range of Application Interface Boards that allow designers to try out its ICeGaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) in existing circuits in place of competing MOSFET or GaN devices without having to re-layout the PCB...

Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA — which designs and manufactures JEDEC- and AEC-Q101-qualified gallium nitride (GaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) for high-voltage power conversion — has been awarded a contract for up to $15m from the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL)...

Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor of Torrance, CA, USA has commenced an underwritten public offering of $80m of shares of its Class A common stock. All of the shares are being offered by Navitas. In addition, Navitas intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional $12m of shares at the public offering price, minus underwriting discounts and commissions...

Mojo Vision Inc of Saratoga, CA, USA — which is developing and commercializing micro-LED display technology for consumer, enterprise and government applications — has announced a development and process milestone with the light-up of what it claims is the first 300mm GaN-on-silicon blue micro-LED array wafer, marking progress towards maturing micro-LED manufacturing at 300mm CMOS fabs...

Epiwafer and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has launched a new portfolio of 200mm (8”) red, green and blue (RGB) epitaxial wafer products for micro-LED display qualification...

Infineon in Villach, Austria is launching two European research projects involving 98 partners from 18 countries, with total funding over three years (until April 2026) of €130m from industry investments, grants from the individual countries involved, and the European Key Digital Technologies research program...