3 April 2020

COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on global high-tech industries

Trendforce provides late-March update to report

3 April 2020

Cree cuts March-quarter guidance due to greater-than-expected impact from COVID-19

Expected net loss revised from $10-16m to $15-17m

2 April 2020

Micro-LED display developer Plessey to work with Facebook

LED manufacturing operations to be dedicated to helping Facebook prototype and develop technologies for AR/VR applications

2 April 2020

RF GaAs revenue falls nearly 6% in 2019, due to declining smartphone shipments

…but 5G network and device deployments to drive resumption of growth, to $9bn by 2024

1 April 2020

Veeco revises Q1 revenue guidance from $95-120m to $100-105m due to COVID-19

Operations deemed by government to be part of critical infrastructure

31 March 2020

Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available

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31 March 2020

AXT GaAs substrate customer qualifies new wafer processing facilities

New GaAs production site expands capabilities and increases capacity

31 March 2020

ALLOS reports wavelength uniformity and reproducibility of 200mm GaN-on-Si epiwafers for micro-LEDs

Firm’s strain-engineering technology shown to scale to 300mm on MOCVD reactor

30 March 2020

IQE pre-announces 2019 financial performance in line with November trading update

Q1/2020 trading in line with prior expectations

26 March 2020

Micro-scaling of indium gallium nitride blue and green light-emitting diodes

25 March 2020

Smartphones production may fall up to 30% in first-half 2020

Whitepaper identifies short-and long-term impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on 5G devices, smartphones & wearables

24 March 2020

CSA Catapult in Newport to coordinate Materials and Components aspects of UK’s DER Industrialisation Centres

Network targets faster design, development and industrialization of power electronics, electric machines and drives, focusing on silicon carbide

24 March 2020

Plasma-Therm adds systems engineering expertise with acquisition of UK-based JLS Designs

Table-top etch and deposition added to portfolio

24 March 2020

Fraunhofer IAF boosts GaN transistor efficiency to record 77.3% at 1-2GHz after doubling operating voltage to 100V

Long-term goal is operation through 10GHz

24 March 2020

Ecosense acquires Soraa’s assets

LED technology company enters lamp replacement category

24 March 2020

RF semiconductor market growing at 8.5% CAGR from $17.4bn in 2020 to $26.2bn by 2025

GaN sector growing at highest CAGR

23 March 2020

Power GaN device market grows 16% in Q4/2019

Growth in 2020 being driven by adoption for fast chargers in consumer electronics

23 March 2020

Smartphone shipments fall a record 38% year-on-year in February, from 99.2 million units in 2019 to 61.8 million in 2020

Covid-19-driven demand collapse in Asia dragging down shipments worldwide