French research and strategy consulting company Yole Dveloppement (Lyon, France) provides an analysis on thick silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates as this market is expected to move from $72 million in 2007 to $115 million in 2012.
Display startup UniPixel will demonstrate its color display technology, time-multiplexed optical shutter, at next week's Society for Information Display conference.
Hewlett Packard and Foxconn broke ground in St. Petersburg, Russia for the construction of a 32,000-square-meter manufacturing facility intended for the production of HP PCs in Russia.
Apparently, in the power struggle at Infineon a decision is imminent. Media reports here already speculate CEO Wolfgang Ziebart is determined to quit the company as early as end of May. Nothing has been decided, Infineon officials insist.
Researchers at Siemens Corporate Research have succeeded to transmit data at a bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s using visible light. The technology could be used to supplement current WLAN approaches.
IBM has managed to squeeze 230W of power on to a centimeter square of solar panel using concentrator photovoltaics. The energy was then converted to 70W of usable electric power, the best power efficiency yet achieved, the company claims.
Qualcomm Inc. surpassed Texas Instruments Inc. as the world's leading supplier of semiconductors for wireless applications in 2007, according to the new rankings from iSuppli Corp.
Ixys Corp., a power semiconductor company, has made an unsolicited proposal to acquire all the outstanding shares of Zilog Corp. for $4.50 in cash and stock.
