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High-power industrial blue laser technology firm NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA has appointed Dr Matthew Philpott as chief marketing & sales officer. He will lead the team to further develop NUBURU’s product roadmap and to accelerate market penetration across all segments...

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 teamed up with China-based SHARGE Technology to design a 67W USB PD charger with a power display screen...

Semiconductor production test and reliability qualification equipment supplier Aehr Test Systems of Fremont, CA, USA has received a $6.7m order from its lead silicon carbide (SiC) test & burn-in customer for multiple WaferPak full-wafer contactors to meet its increased production capacity needs for silicon carbide power semiconductors for the electric vehicle (EV) market. This customer is a leading Fortune 500 supplier of semiconductor devices with a significant customer base in the automotive semiconductor market...

CrayoNano AS of Trondheim, Norway — which develops and manufactures semiconductor components based on patented and proprietary nanomaterials technology — has announced improvements to the performance of its CrayoLED H-series UV-C LEDs. Entering the 100mW and 5% wall-plug efficiency (WPE) class at a standard operating current of 350mA, the LED is targeting the disinfection market...

Power semiconductor designer and developer Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Ltd (AOS) of Sunnyvale, CA, USA is exhibiting its 650V and 750V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET platform for industrial and automotive applications and its complete line of advanced power management solutions in booth #810 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2023) in Orlando, FL, USA (20–22 March)...

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is to double the investment plan (that it announced in 2021) from 130bn yen to about 260bn yen in the five-year period to March 2026, mainly for constructing a new wafer plant to increase production of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors...

For fourth-quarter 2022, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €183.2m, up slightly (by 1%) from the strong €180.9m a year ago and more than doubling from Q3/2022’s €88.9m (and the best fourth-quarter in terms of shipments since 2011). The growth is attributed to unabated strong demand and stable supply chains plus shipment push-outs from Q3/2022...

BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia – which manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diodes based on its proprietary low-temperature, low-hydrogen remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology – says that it continues to grow its customer base, receiving two additional purchase orders for both its single-mode and multi-mode violet 405nm and blue 450nm GaN lasers in flexible form factors...

BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia – which manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diodes based on its proprietary low-temperature, low-hydrogen remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology – has secured $10.2m in commitments from international and Australian institutional and sophisticated investors via a strongly supported share placement at an issue price of $0.06 per share...

CSA (Compound Semiconductor Applications) Catapult is highlighting the collaboration opportunities open to the UK compound semiconductor industry and Taiwan in a two-part online seminar series ‘Seeking Value Beyond Semiconductor Industry: Opportunities and Challenges for IC Design and Compound Semiconductor in the UK and Taiwan’ on 14 and 16 March...

In booth #822 at the 38th annual Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2023) in Orlando, FL, USA (19–23 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 the following GaN solutions, demonstrating advances in power density and efficiency across multiple market segments...

Keysight Technologies Inc of Santa Rosa, CA, USA has introduced the new Iterative Learning Control (ILC) test method that significantly shortens digital pre-distortion (DPD) test times for power amplifiers...

In an update on current trading, epiwafer and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that, although it expects results for full-year 2022 to remain in line with the update provided on 16 January, it has since seen an acceleration of the anticipated trends, with weaker demand leading to inventory build-up throughout the supply chain. This reduction in customer orders and forecasts is expected to result in a decline in first-half 2023 revenue of about £30m year-on-year...

The UK Government’s newly created Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has published its new Science and Technology framework that clearly identifies semiconductors and quantum technologies as two of the five technologies that are critical to the UK...

According to its latest survey of the market for compound semiconductors, market research firm TrendForce projects that the global market for silicon carbide (SiC) power devices will grow by 41.4% year-on-year to $2.28bn in 2023, highlighted by chipmakers onsemi and Infineon respectively forming collaborative relationships with both carmakers and developers of energy solutions, for the two largest application segments: electric vehicles ($1.09bn in 2022, comprising 67.4% of the market) and renewable energy ($210m in 2022, or 13.1% of the market)...

Acacia Communications Inc of Maynard, MA, USA (now part of Cisco) — which develops and manufactures high-speed coherent optical interconnect products — has reported the results of three breakthrough live network trials showing ultra-long-haul, long-haul and regional distances recently completed by Adtran with NYSERNet, China Mobile with ZTE, and Windstream Wholesale, all leveraging Acacia’s Coherent Interconnect Module 8 (CIM 8). As these trials demonstrate, the CIM 8 enables network operators to achieve the highest capacity and reach today while maximizing transmission data rate across a wide range of multi-haul network applications including DCI, metro, long-haul and subsea...

Avicena Tech Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (which develops ultra-low-energy optical links based on micro-LEDs) has partnered with ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstaetten/Graz, Austria and Munich, Germany to develop high-volume manufacturing of gallium nitride (GaN) micro-LED arrays for its LightBundle communication architecture...

In booth #3950 at the Optical Fiber Communication conference (OFC 2023) in San Diego (7–9 March), Avicena Tech Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (which develops ultra-low-energy optical links based on micro-LEDs) is demonstrating what is claimed to be the highest-temperature optical link, operating at up to 235°C using its LightBundle communication architecture and technology. The LightBundle architecture is said to unlock the performance of xPUs, memory and sensors, removing key bandwidth and proximity constraints while simultaneously offering an order-of-magnitude reduction in power consumption...

Fabless firm ElectroPhotonic-IC Inc (ELPHiC) of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which provides indium phosphide (InP) optoelectronic chips, has announced sample availability of its high-speed electro-absorption modulator laser (EML) for data-centers applications for 800Gb/s and 1.6Tb/s modules. This follows the sampling of its 10G 1271 laser and its integrated PIN-TIA receiver for passive optical network (PON) applications that has showed very high reliability...

SemiQ Inc of Lake Forest, CA, USA – which designs, develops and manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors and 150mm SiC epitaxial wafers for high-frequency, high-temperature and high-efficiency power semiconductor devices – says that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has chosen it to supply SiC diodes for an ongoing particle accelerator project...