News Archive
April 2025
23 April 2025
Infineon showcasing power device solutions at PCIM
23 April 2025
EPC launches laser driver evaluation board for indirect time-of-flight applications
22 April 2025
OIF releases 800LR Implementation Agreement defining single-wavelength 800G coherent line interface
22 April 2025
NUBURU secures funding to eliminate $3.4m in outstanding accounts payables
22 April 2025
Lumentum earns EcoVadis Platinum Medal for third consecutive year
17 April 2025
RISC processor based on 2D semiconductor FETs
17 April 2025
17 April 2025
ROHM highlighting e-mobility and industrial applications at PCIM 2025
17 April 2025
17 April 2025
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Navitas gains automotive qualification of high-power GaNSafe ICs
16 April 2025
Toshiba showcasing wide-bandgap technology at PCIM
16 April 2025
Diodes Inc adds 650V SiC Schottky diodes with low figure-of-merit
16 April 2025
15 April 2025
ST reshaping manufacturing footprint to invest in 300mm silicon, 200mm SiC, and technology R&D
15 April 2025
Mitsubishi Electric to ship samples of full-SiC and hybrid-SiC SLIMDIP modules
15 April 2025
ams OSRAM launches 20% brighter 1.2mm x 1.0mm x 0.6mm Chip LED delivering 14mW
15 April 2025
Qorvo appoints two independent directors as David H. Y. Ho retires from board
15 April 2025
POET broadens customer engagements following product showcase at OFC
14 April 2025
Lund University buying Taiyo Nippon Sanso MOCVD platform
14 April 2025
Infineon launches first industrial GaN transistor product family with integrated Schottky diode
14 April 2025
Aehr’s revenue rebounds by 35.6% quarter-to-quarter
11 April 2025
European firm to invest up to €250m in photonic chip production at former BelGaN site
10 April 2025
GaN HEMT hits 85.2% PAE record at 2.45GHz
10 April 2025
NUBURU unwinding partnership with HUMBL
10 April 2025
Riber’s annual revenue grows 4.8% to €41.2m
10 April 2025
IQE and X-FAB sign JDA to develop European-based GaN power outsourced manufacturing platform
10 April 2025
9 April 2025
VIGO and PCO partner on type-II superlattice cooled IR detector arrays
8 April 2025
Co-packaged optics accelerating towards commercialization
8 April 2025
Comptek launches Kontrox LASE 16 for industrial-scale edge-emitting laser facet passivation
7 April 2025
PhotonDelta and Silicon Catalyst collaborate to drive innovation for early-stage photonic startups
7 April 2025
Marktech launches MWIR LEDs in TO-can packages for harsh environments
7 April 2025
NUBURU signs joint pursuit agreement with defense company
7 April 2025
ST and Innoscience sign GaN power device technology development and manufacturing agreement
4 April 2025
Teradyne announces production system for double-sided wafer probe test for silicon photonics
4 April 2025
imec identifies stable operating range for GaN MISHEMTs in RF power amplifiers
4 April 2025
Ascent gains order to revise space PV module design for receiving beamed power
4 April 2025
Navitas’ GaNSense ICs used in Great Wall’s 2.5kW DC–DC converter for 400V power architecture
4 April 2025
SemiQ ships SiC MOSFET modules for integration into EV battery cell cyclers
4 April 2025
5N Plus renews credit facilities for four-year term to support growth
3 April 2025
Keysight, NTT Innovative Devices and Lumentum give first joint demo 448Gbps data transmission
3 April 2025
Enhancing GaN diode performance with p-oxides
3 April 2025
Keysight and Coherent demo 200G/lane multimode technology at OFC
2 April 2025
University of South Carolina buying Taiyo Nippon Sanso MOCVD platform
2 April 2025
POET teams with Lessengers to develop 800G DR8 transceivers for AI and hyperscale markets
2 April 2025
2 April 2025
HieFo launches high-efficiency CW DFB InP lasers for silicon photonics transceivers
2 April 2025
Altum RF opens new, larger office for Sydney Design Center
2 April 2025
Aixtron supplying G10-AsP MOCVD system to Nokia
2 April 2025
2 April 2025
Lumentum showcases next-gen InP chips enabling scalable AI data centers
2 April 2025
OpenLight partners with TFC to fast-track silicon photonics back-end process
2 April 2025
Lumentum and Marvell showcase first integrated 450G high-speed optical interface at OFC
1 April 2025
Casela launches 16-channel External Laser Source platform
1 April 2025
Noiseless InGaAs IR sensor firm Phlux raises £9m in Series A round
March 2025
31 March 2025
CISM at Swansea establishes UK’s first capability for 4-inch gallium oxide thin-film growth
31 March 2025
Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available
28 March 2025
Wolfspeed receives $192m in Section 48D cash tax refunds from IRS
28 March 2025
Mazda and ROHM jointly developing automotive components using GaN
28 March 2025
Lumentum showcasing optical innovations for cloud, AI and networking infrastructure at OFC
28 March 2025
Coherent demos first 400G differential electro-absorption modulated laser
27 March 2025
Pragmatic launches NFC Connect RFID near-field connectivity product line
27 March 2025
27 March 2025
Wolfspeed appoints Robert Feurle as CEO & board member
27 March 2025
27 March 2025
VTEC Lasers and Sensors becomes a shareholder in Spectrik
27 March 2025
Coherent selling epi fab in Champaign, Illinois
27 March 2025
Coherent launches 2x400G-FR4 Lite silicon photonics-based optical transceiver
27 March 2025
Coherent launches 793nm pump laser diode with record 28W of power and 97% polarization purity
27 March 2025
Bridgelux launches DriveLux light engine series integrating COB and driver technology
27 March 2025
26 March 2025
Reducing energy costs for AI and data processing
26 March 2025
Skorpios names Gunter Reiss as chief revenue officer
26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Acacia expands client optics component portfolio
26 March 2025
Aixtron partners in GraFunkL project on use of graphene in UVC LEDs
26 March 2025
OpenLight completes Telcordia GR-468 qualification for silicon photonics components
25 March 2025
Diodes Inc launches InSb Hall-element sensors for rotation and current detection applications
25 March 2025
Scintil demonstrating LEAF Light DWDM remote light source at OFC
25 March 2025
POET to demo light source and 1.6T optical engines for AI applications at OFC
25 March 2025
Sivers collaborating with WIN to scale high-volume DFB laser production
24 March 2025
ams OSRAM’s EVIYOS Shape LED made available
24 March 2025
Veeco’s Q4 revenue and income exceed midpoints of guidance
24 March 2025
Cadence Design Centre JV with CSA Catapult backed by £2.5m from Welsh Government
24 March 2025
POET ships optical engine samples to three global customers for AI applications
21 March 2025
Silicon Austria Labs and TU Graz launch joint Power Electronics Research Laboratory
21 March 2025
USPTO gives ruling on EPC patent disputed by Innoscience
20 March 2025
Quantum Critical Metals stakes Prophecy Germanium-Gallium-Zinc Project in northern British Columbia
20 March 2025
TI launches integrated GaN power stages in TOLL packages
20 March 2025
Indium arsenide quantum dot VCSELs on InP(311)B substrate
20 March 2025
OSRAM’s and Nichia’s micro-LED solutions boost resolution 100-fold over traditional matrix LEDs
20 March 2025
Tiger and GESemi selling thin-film GaAs flexible PV production equipment
20 March 2025
CA Global Partners announce a live webcast auction
19 March 2025
NUBURU eliminates long-term indebtedness and makes $5.15m strategic investment in Supply@ME Capital
19 March 2025
ROHM highlights Power Eco Family power semiconductor brand
19 March 2025
Nexperia launches 1200V SiC MOSFETs in top-side-cooled X.PAK packages
19 March 2025
Nimy and Curtin University sign MoU to collaborate on gallium R&D and production
19 March 2025
Critical manufacturing execution system chosen by Plessey
18 March 2025
Lumentum chosen as NVIDIA silicon photonics ecosystem partner to advance AI networking at scale
18 March 2025
18 March 2025
Nexperia adds 12 devices to e-mode GaN FET portfolio
18 March 2025
18 March 2025
EPC launches EPC2367 100V GaN FET with 1.2mΩ on-resistance
18 March 2025
onsemi launches 1200V SiC MOSFET-based intelligent power modules
17 March 2025
BluGlass establishes Industry Advisory Board led by Steven DenBaars and Richard Craig
17 March 2025
UK’s Universities of Cambridge and Southampton join PIXEurope pilot line consortium
17 March 2025
17 March 2025
Wise-integration showcasing next-gen GaN power solutions at APEC
17 March 2025
14 March 2025
Smartphone production grows 9.2% in Q4/2024 to 334.5 million units
14 March 2025
Navitas production-releases first 650V bi-directional GaNFast ICs and isolated gate-drivers
14 March 2025
Infineon’s CoolSiC Schottky diode 2000V made available in TO-247-2 package
14 March 2025
13 March 2025
Full-color monolithic micro-LED displays
13 March 2025
CGD focusing on motor drive, data-center, scalable power and EV applications at APEC
13 March 2025
13 March 2025
Sumitomo Chemical exhibiting compound semiconductor products at APEC
13 March 2025
Vishay showcasing SiC MOSFET technology at APEC 2025
13 March 2025
ROHM showcasing latest power electronics at APEC 2025
13 March 2025
Luminus adds SFT-12R and SFT-25R to round LED range for premium outdoor lighting
13 March 2025
NUBURU completes first acquisition step in defense and security sector
13 March 2025
UK can lead in power electronics for data centers, reckons CSA Catapult
13 March 2025
Infineon’s battery backup unit roadmap for AI data centers includes first 12kW BBU
12 March 2025
EPC releases Phase 17 Reliability Report
12 March 2025
Teradyne to acquire photonic integrated circuit test firm Quantifi
12 March 2025
Celestial AI raises $250m in Series C1 funding round
11 March 2025
BluGlass boosts single-mode GaN laser chip output by 67% to record 1250mW
11 March 2025
Nichia wins German patent infringement lawsuits concerning Dominant LEDs
10 March 2025
MACOM demos RF and optical products at SATELLITE 2025
10 March 2025
CGD’s Combo ICeGaN combines ICeGaN HEMT ICs and IGBTs in parallel
7 March 2025
Auction of CrayoNano’s assets extended to 17 March
7 March 2025
5N+ sells AZUR subsidiary’s GaN IP portfolio to micro-LED specialist ALLOS
7 March 2025
NUBURU partners with COEPTIS NexGenAI Affiliates Network
6 March 2025
Aluminium nitride template strategies for brighter UVC LEDs
6 March 2025
Luminus launches Generation 2 warm dimming COB LEDs
6 March 2025
ROHM’s EcoGaN adopted by Murata for AI server power supplies
6 March 2025
k-Space introduces new RHEED simulation software
5 March 2025
Compound semiconductor market growing at nearly 13% CAGR to $25bn by 2030
5 March 2025
Altum RF achieves ISO 9001 registration for Sydney design center
5 March 2025
ROHM launches 650V GaN HEMT in compact, high-heat-dissipation TOLL package
5 March 2025
Violumas boosts 275nm and 265nm UVC LED output by 35–50%
4 March 2025
CSA Catapult hosts UK government ministers and South Wales’ compound semiconductor cluster
4 March 2025
Finwave announces global distribution agreement with RFMW
3 March 2025
NUBURU and HUMBL agree $2m share exchange
3 March 2025
Lumentum quarterly revenue grows 10% year-on-year despite manufacturing capacity constraints
February 2025
28 February 2025
Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available
27 February 2025
Crack-free low threading dislocation density AlGaN for sub-365nm UV
27 February 2025
26 February 2025
Penn State granted $4.3m of US CHIPS Act funding via MMEC
26 February 2025
Nimy’s $1.15m share placement to fund follow-up drilling at gallium discovery
26 February 2025
India’s Archean investing £12m in Scotland’s Clas-SiC
26 February 2025
Silanna UV launches NozzleShield UV water dispenser disinfection technology
26 February 2025
Aeluma appoints former NVIDIA finance leader Mike Byron to board
25 February 2025
Skyworks’ Broad Markets revenue returns to year-on-year growth
25 February 2025
24 February 2025
Ennostar Inc merging EPISTAR and Lextar into Ennostar Corp
24 February 2025
NUBURU agrees strategic transaction with private equity investment group
21 February 2025
21 February 2025
SounDigital uses Infineon’s 100V normally-off E-mode CoolGaN transistors
21 February 2025
20 February 2025
AlScN-barrier GaN HEMT with record high on-current
20 February 2025
20 February 2025
20 February 2025
BluGlass receives AUS$120,000 order for specialized GaN laser bars
19 February 2025
Lumileds adds LUXEON HL2X-V LED
19 February 2025
Lumileds’ LUXEON C ES enables small, high-output, complex, multi-color arrays
19 February 2025
Infinera’s acquisition by Nokia expected to complete on or about 28 February
19 February 2025
Sivers appoints Alexander McCann as strategic senior advisor
19 February 2025
CGD raises $32m in Series C funding round
18 February 2025
Infineon launches CoolGaN G3 Transistor in new silicon-footprint packages
17 February 2025
Wolfspeed’s revenue falls 7% in December quarter
14 February 2025
OIF unites 35 member companies in interoperability demos at OFC
13 February 2025
Gallium oxide JFETs reach beyond 10kV breakdown
13 February 2025
Qorvo’s quarterly revenue hit by mass-tier Android 5G demand falling faster than expected
13 February 2025
Sivers signs MOU with optical infrastructure firm for high-volume production of laser arrays
13 February 2025
Infineon releases first silicon carbide products to customers based on 200mm silicon carbide wafers
12 February 2025
IQE raising £18m by issuing convertible loan notes
12 February 2025
Infineon adds Q-DPAK and TOLL packages to industrial CoolSiC MOSFETs 650V G2 range
11 February 2025
VueReal adds chief commercial officer
11 February 2025
CGD’s senior VP of global sales to lead expansion into additional markets
11 February 2025
Former Wolfspeed CEO Gregg Lowe joins Power Integrations’ board
11 February 2025
Power Integrations’ CEO Balu Balakrishnan to retire
10 February 2025
CEA-Leti presents advances in integrated optics on silicon
10 February 2025
AlixLabs showcasing latest APS findings at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning
10 February 2025
Taiyo Nippon Sanso selling BRUTE Peroxide in Japan
6 February 2025
InGaN laser diodes on c-plane lateral overgrowth material
6 February 2025
Nimy collaborating with M2i to secure gallium supply for US government and defense industry
6 February 2025
Silicon carbide patent activity grows strongly in Q4/2024, reports KnowMade
6 February 2025
Philip Brace to succeed Liam K. Griffin as president & CEO of Skyworks
5 February 2025
Navitas’ GaN and SiC devices adopted in Dell’s family of 60–360W AI notebook adapters
5 February 2025
MACOM European Semiconductor Center wins multi-year contract for France 2030-funded MAGENTA program
5 February 2025
Teledyne HiRel releases wideband 50GHz RF switch for K bands and beyond
5 February 2025
SBTi validates onsemi near-term science-based targets for emissions reduction
5 February 2025
APC chooses Luminus as worldwide sales channel and go-to-market partner
4 February 2025
AlixLabs collaborates with Linköping University
4 February 2025
Cree LED launches XLamp XP-L Photo Red S Line LEDs
4 February 2025
Lumentum appoints Michael Hurlston as president & CEO as Alan Lowe retires
3 February 2025
Vishay launches 650V and 1200V silicon carbide Schottky diodes in SOT-227 package
3 February 2025
Riber’s full-year revenue grows 5% to €41.2m in 2024
3 February 2025
Mitsubishi Electric joins Horizon Europe’s FLAGCHIP project
3 February 2025
POET engaged by global financial services firm to develop custom optical engine
3 February 2025
Teradyne and Infineon partner on power semiconductor testing
January 2025
31 January 2025
31 January 2025
Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available
31 January 2025
VueReal raises US$40.5m in Series C funding round
30 January 2025
GaN complementary logic circuit building blocks
30 January 2025
BluGlass showcases new product capability for quantum applications at Photonics West
29 January 2025
Forge Nano adds cleanroom, tripling ALD cluster tool production space
29 January 2025
Infineon’s new CoolSiC Automotive MOSFET 1200V selected by FORVIA HELLA
29 January 2025
UK-based Quantum Science expands into new manufacturing facility
29 January 2025
Indichip to construct $1.4bn silicon carbide fab
28 January 2025
Compound semiconductor market growing at 10.9% CAGR from $44.5bn in 2023 to $111.6bn in 2032
28 January 2025
28 January 2025
Celestial AI appoints Lip-Bu Tan to board
28 January 2025
Luminus adds red and blue multi-mode lasers
28 January 2025
IQE raises full-year 2024 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance
28 January 2025
27 January 2025
TRUMPF and iThera demo VCSEL-based subsystem for optoacoustic medical imaging and sensing
27 January 2025
Ortel transfers C-band high-power cw laser from Emcore fab to Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre
27 January 2025
III–V Epi advocates GaAs epi regrowth for emerging semiconductor laser applications
27 January 2025
Photon Design previews new quantum dot simulation tool at Photonics West
24 January 2025
ProPhotonix launches 265nm UVC LED Area Light at Photonics West
24 January 2025
MACOM signs preliminary memorandum of terms for US CHIPS Act funding
24 January 2025
23 January 2025
NUBURU regains compliance with NYSE American Market
23 January 2025
Gallium arsenide nano-ridge laser diodes on 300mm silicon
23 January 2025
StratEdge partners with Vitale Engineering as manufacturer’s representative for Upstate New York
22 January 2025
Wolfspeed launches Gen 4 MOSFET technology platform
22 January 2025
22 January 2025
First Solar endows Missouri S&T professorship in Critical Energy Materials
22 January 2025
Element Six unveils copper diamond composite to power advanced semiconductor devices
22 January 2025
SemiQ launches QSiC 1700V series of high-reliability, low-loss SiC MOSFETs
21 January 2025
EPC launches 3-phase BLDC motor drive inverter reference design
21 January 2025
Lynred launches Eyesential SW shortwave IR sensor for machine vision
21 January 2025
Thorlabs acquires strategic partner Praevium Research
20 January 2025
US CHIPS Incentives Program awards finalized for Corning, Edwards Vacuum and Infinera
20 January 2025
Innoscience files lawsuits against Infineon in China
17 January 2025
Aehr’s quarterly revenue hit by order delays
16 January 2025
Improving hole injection in deep UV LEDs
16 January 2025
Guerrilla RF unveils new GaN-on-SiC HEMT power amplifiers dice for high-performance RF
16 January 2025
METLEN investing €295.5m in bauxite, alumina and gallium production in Greece
16 January 2025
Vermont Gallium Nitride Tech Hub awarded $23.7m from US Economic Development Administration
15 January 2025
Wolfspeed completes $200m at-the-market equity offering
15 January 2025
onsemi completes acquisition of Qorvo’s SiC JFET business for $115m
15 January 2025
EPC introduces fully configured motor drive inverter reference design
14 January 2025
MACOM unveils five-year, $345m plan to expand 100mm GaN and GaAs production and introduce 150mm GaN
14 January 2025
Veeco tightens revenue and EPS guidance ranges for Q4 and full-year 2024
14 January 2025
High-breakdown-voltage P-GaN gate HEMTs with threshold voltage of 7.1V
13 January 2025
Sivers signs CHIPS Act contracts with Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub
13 January 2025
Micro-LED display market to grow to 34.6 million units by 2031
13 January 2025
13 January 2025
CEA-Leti presenting at Photonics West, including Invited Paper on optical phased arrays for LiDAR
10 January 2025
SemiLEDs’ revenue falls slightly in December quarter
10 January 2025
VueReal appoints VP of semiconductor engineering
10 January 2025
Plessey and Meta develop brightest red micro-LED display for AR glasses
10 January 2025
Teledyne HiRel releases high-power 30MHz–5GHz RF GaN switch
9 January 2025
Fast gallium oxide MOCVD growth
9 January 2025
9 January 2025
Teledyne Imaging Sensors places repeat order for Riber MBE 412 cluster system
9 January 2025
ROHM samples 1kW-class high-power IR laser diode
8 January 2025
Aledia makes available micro-LED technology for immersive AR
8 January 2025
Aehr receives initial FOX-XP system order from GaN power semi supplier
7 January 2025
Almae orders Riber GSMBE production system
7 January 2025
USPTO issues Notice of Allowance for AmpliTech’s MMIC LNA patent application
7 January 2025
InnoScience floats in IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
6 January 2025
NUBURU announces board and committee appointments
6 January 2025
Voyant launches FMCW LiDAR sensor on a chip
6 January 2025
DOE announces $179m funding for Microelectronics Science Research Centers
3 January 2025
Polar Light achieves 625nm-wavelength red pyramidal micro-LED
2 January 2025
2 January 2025
Neo completes sale of Rare Metals facility in Quapaw, Oklahoma
