* Business Briefs Oct 21, 2009
Yageo Corp (), the nations largest passive components service provider, yesterday posted consolidated third-quarter revenues of NT$5. 46 billion, up 22 percent from the second quarter. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Dongbu CEO: Analog to fuel green revolution Oct 17, 2009
Within the cell-phone, there are five memory devices, four MCUs, five logic ICs and nine passive components. Of the 50 parts, some 29 devices are analog-oriented products, he said. (EETimes)
Silicon circuit board seeks to replace ASICs Aug 25, 2009
"We flip-chip attach logic, memory and passive components to the front side of the silicon circuit board and encapsulate it in a package so that all the customer sees is something that looks just like an industry-standard ball grid array package, but is in fact a complete computing system.". The company claims its technology reduces board size by a factor of three while lowering weight and power consumption compared to traditional systems using standard chips mounted on circuit boards. (EETimes)
Vishay loses $59M Jul 29, 2009
Vishay s president and CEO, Gerald Paul, said in the company s earnings press release that its semiconductor business started to recover during the quarter, although its passive components business remained weak. Paul said the company expects semiconductor sales to continue to rebound and sales of passive components to follow eventually. (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
Boost for future broadband speeds May 20, 2009
Others will look into ways to create so-called passive components that make the job of connecting homes to fibre networks straightforward. Currently, building multi-gigabit networks involves complex, expensive components such as tunable lasers. (BBC News -- Technology)
Novel 3-D packaging startup snares $15M in funding Apr 15, 2009
The types of components that can be embedded include bare silicon or gallium arsenide dies, discrete passive components, application specific integrated passive components, and wafer-level chip scale packages, according to materials on. Imberra's manufacturing process combines pc board manufacturing, component packaging and component assembly into a single sequence, according to the company. (EETimes)
Samsung dominates new iPod shuffle, says iSuppli Apr 15, 2009
The latest version of the iPod Shuffle contains 171 distinct parts, mostly inexpensive and tiny passive components, down from 213 components from the second-generation version, based on iSuppli's 2007 teardown, the firm said. The third-generation model also is smaller, at only 10. (EETimes)
Cable Show 2009: Aurora Rolls In RF-Over-PON Apr 1, 2009
Also Wednesday, Aurora was set to announce an eight-wavelength LcWDM system, which adds seventh and eighth wavelengths that can be combined with its full range of passive components on a single fiber from the existing node to a new node. According to the company, MSOs can transport eight wavelengths in the 1310-nm window, allowing them to use CWDM and DWDM technologies to add another 12 or more wavelengths. (Multichannel News)
Photonic IC startup secures $19.5 million Mar 18, 2009
All active and passive components of the chip; including the distributed-feedback (DFB) laser, optically pre-amplified detector (OPAD), wavelength splitter, spot-size converter and various elements of passive waveguide circuitry are, uniquely, integrated in one epitaxial growth step, without re-growth or post-growth modification of the epitaxial material. With respect to transmit performance, OneChip s single-frequency DFB lasers will offer a superior performance in terms of reach and bit rate... (EETimes)
