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Porotech Unlocks A World First In Micro-LED Dynamic Pixel Tuning

by Artem Alekseenko

Porotech, a pioneer in micro-LED and GaN-based semiconductor material technology, will be unveiling DynamicPixelTuning™ on its PoroGaN® microdisplay platform at the Display Week event in California next week. The breakthrough makes it possible to …

Tags:MicroLED| Semiconductors

Links Week Starting 2nd May 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. AOC: New gaming display with 280 Hz …

Enkris releases Full Color GaN products and expands wafer size to 300mm for micro-LED applications

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We just caught up with news from Semiconductor Today that a Chinese ‘pure play’ foundry for GaN epitaxial wafers has released ‘full color GaN-on-Si’ LEDs based on production on ‘up to’ …

Tags:China| MicroLED| Semiconductors

Links Week Ending 4th March 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. VRR update for 2021 Sony TVs …

Micledi Collaborating with GlobalFoundries.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Micledi Microdisplays of Leuven in Belgium said that it has done a deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) for the chipmaker to integrate the Micledi microLED arrays with the GF 22FDX platform. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MicroLED| Semiconductors

Earthquake Disrupts Chips and Components

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Wednesday saw a substantial earthquake off the Northeast Coast of Japan. The quake registered as magnitude 7.3, down below the level 9.0 of the disastrous one that caused the tsunami that …

Tags:Automotive| Japan| Semiconductors| Supply Chain| Ukraine

New Chip Interconnect is ‘Incredibly Important’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bob O’Donnell is an analyst that we pay attention to (and he sometimes contributes DD articles). When he says something is important, I pay attention. He said that an announcement last …

Apple Gives a Peek at a New Monitor, Tablets, Macs, iPhones….

by Bob Raikes

To nobody’s surprise, Apple held an online event to announce a whole slew of new products. It included a new monitor so we logged in to see what it had to say. Tim Cook …

BOE Hits Driver Block

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reports that BOE has had to reduce its shipments of OLEDs to Apple because of a shortage of driver chips which it is said to be buying from LX …

Tags:BOE| Display Drivers| Semiconductors

SK Hynix new memory chips are 16 times faster, 80% more efficient

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported that SK Hynix has ‘next generation’ memory chips that can process data as well as storing it. The firm claims that this can increase calculation times by …

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AMD Completed its Purchase of Xilinx

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AMD has completed its purchase of Xilinx after more than a year of processing. Some reports put the deal value at $50 billion as the deal was made based on AMD …

Tags:AMD| FPGAs| Mergers & Acquisitions| Semiconductor Industry| Semiconductors

SmartKem, Inc. Begins Trading on the OTCQB in the US

by Artem Alekseenko

SmartKem, Inc. announced that its common stock has commenced trading on the OTCQB Venture Marketplace (“OTCQB”) in the United States under the ticker symbol “SMTK”. The OTCQB is a US trading platform that is …

Tags:Semiconductors| USA