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TSMC’s GaN-on-Silicon patents supporting STMicroelectronics’ strategic move towards power GaN adoption in automotive applications

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – February 24, 2020 | As announced earlier this month, STMicroelectronics (ST) will collaborate with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC) in order to accelerate the development of GaN technology for power applications, and more specifically for automotive applications (converters and chargers for hybrid and electric vehicles). With this recent manufacturing partnership, STMicroelectronics[…]

GaN-on-Si: many opportunities are driven by microLED, power electronics and RF electronics

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – January 24, 2020 | “2015-2020 period has shown tremendous and decisive changes within the GaN-on-Si landscape, especially the strategy of players involved” affirms Nicolas Baron, CEO and Co-founder of KnowMade. He adds: “For example, Toshiba’s withdrawal from white LED market and the acquisition of IR by Infineon Technologies in 2015”. OUTLINES:[…]

Solid-state lighting source: a business opportunity of US$32 billion in 2024

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – September 30, 2019: SSL sources aren’t new technologies. In fact, they’ve existed since the 1960s. However, only in the last 25 years have they started appearing in high-volume applications. Yole Développement (Yole) estimates therefore that the overall SSL source market will grow from US$20.4 billion in 2018 to US$32.3 billion in[…]

Apple, the best positioned to bring high volume consumer microLEDs to market

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – October 10, 2018 │ “MicroLED displays could potentially match or exceed OLED performance in all critical attributes” comments Dr. Eric Virey, Senior Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement (Yole). It includes brightness, contrast, color gamut, refresh rate, viewing angle, ruggedness and durability, resolution and pixel density, lifetime, power consumption etc.[…]