Hamamatsu Photonics has announced the completion of the new building No.1 in Shingai factory. The Shingai factory, located in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a mass production fab specialized in back end process. The new building will increase the production rate of back end process of optical semiconductor elements. Production at the new building will be […]
TDK has announced the acquisition of ICsense from Belgium by TDK’s wholly-owned subsidiary TDK-Micronas GmbH on 28 March. ICsense will become a member of TDK group and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TDK-Micronas. The ICsense management team will remain unchanged. Established in 2004, ICsense’s core business is ASIC development and the supply and custom IC design […]
SII Semicondutor, a subsidiary of Seiko Instruments, together with the research team of Professor Shigetoshi Sugawa and Associate Professor Rihito Kuroda from Tohoku University, announces the development of mass production technology of a silicon-based ultraviolet (UV) sensor that detects from UV-A (315-400nm) to UV-B (280-315nm) ranges. By taking the difference between the high sensitivity photodiode […]