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InnoScience (Suzhou) Technology Holding Co Ltd — which manufactures gallium nitride on silicon (GaN) power chips on 8” silicon wafers — and China’s largest tier-1 automotive supplier United Automotive Electronic Systems Co Ltd (UAES, a joint venture established in 1995 by China’s Zhonglian Automotive Electronics Co Ltd and Germany’s Robert Bosch GmbH) have established a joint laboratory to develop advanced power electronics systems for new energy vehicles using the advantages of GaN technology in size, weight, and efficiency. The two parties held an unveiling ceremony at UAES (Suzhou R&D Center)...

InnoScience (Suzhou) Technology Holding Co Ltd — which manufactures gallium nitride on silicon (GaN) power chips on 8” silicon wafers — has launched four new 700V SolidGaN devices (ISG6123TA, ISG6123TP, ISG6124TA, and ISG6124TP) that adopt industry-standard TOLL and TOLTP high-power packages, offering compatibility with both traditional controllers and motor driver applications, and streamlining design and simplifying adoption across various applications...

For its fiscal full-year 2025 (ended 28 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 $1645m, up 21% on $1359.2m in fiscal 2024...

TriEye Ltd of Tel Aviv, Israel — which claims to have pioneered the first CMOS-based shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensing technology — and optoelectronic and power management firm LITEON Technology of Hsinchu, Taiwan have partnered to deliver a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-powered SWIR sensing and imaging solution...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and developed and previously manufactured high-power industrial blue lasers — has successfully executed the first milestone under the phased acquisition plan for Tekne S.p.A. established following formal notice received from the Italian government under the ‘Golden Power’ framework...

ams OSRAM of Premstaetten, Austria and Munich, Germany has evaluated a new UV-C LED emitting at a wavelength of 265nm, with a lifespan exceeding 20,000 hours, that delivers over 10% efficiency at 200mW power, as validated by Germany’s National Metrology Institute Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB). With these specifications, the UV-C LED can replace conventional mercury discharge lamps in the future...

Invest Ontario is supporting an investment of over $100m by Ranovus Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (which develops and manufactures multi-terabit photonics interconnect solutions for data-center and communications networks) to develop and scale optical semiconductors that are powering the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The project will expand Ranovus’ manufacturing facility in Ottawa and create 125 new jobs, more than doubling the existing workforce...

AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA – which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials – says that its China-based manufacturing subsidiary Beijing Tongmei Xtal Technology Co Ltd has been informed that it has satisfied the applicable requirements for a permit to export indium phosphide and has received export permits from the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China to resume shipping indium phosphide substrates to certain additional customers...

Independent power electronics company Quantum Power Transformation (QPT) Ltd of Cambridge, UK — which was founded in 2019 and develops gallium nitride (GaN)-based electric motor controls — has unveiled MicroDyno, a low-voltage motor drive test platform which demonstrates the key benefits of ultrahigh-frequency GaN-based motor drives. The solution enables greater control and efficiency with lower system complexity and cost, providing significant benefits in the fast-growing cobot market...

Tokyo-based Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd has developed Tiling crystal film bonding (CFB) technology using its proprietary CFB technology. The technology enables the heterogeneous integration of small-diameter optical semiconductor wafers onto 300mm silicon wafers, previously not possible due to wafer size restrictions, and will contribute to the advancement of rapidly growing photonics-electronics convergence technology. OKI aims to achieve early commercialization through collaboration with partner companies and universities...

k-Space Associates Inc of Dexter, MI, USA — which produces thin-film metrology instrumentation and software — says that its new kSA RHEEDSim reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) simulation software is now available for both labs and classrooms...

ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA (which manufactures electroplating and wet-chemical process systems for ≤200mm wafers) is providing its Solstice S8 single-wafer processing system to Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) of Sugar Land, TX, USA, a designer and manufacturer of optical components, modules and equipment for fiber access networks in the Internet data-center, cable TV broadband, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and telecom markets. The system will further strengthen AOI’s capabilities for producing optoelectronic components that power high-speed data and communications infrastructure...