IMEC has produced simple and robust GaN-on-Si double heterostructure FET (field effect transistor) architecture for GaN-on-Si power switching devices.

Storage solutions from actidata are now available in Australia, according to TData, its newly appointed distributor.

Mornsun Scientfic, manufacturer of AC/DC converters, DC/DC converters, LED drivers, IGBT driver and isolation transmitters distributed in Australia and New Zealand by DLPC, has appointed a new distributor in Victoria.

The year 2009 is likely to be remembered as a watershed year in the evolution of e-books and e-readers with several milestones and product launches standing out as catalysts for change in the market, according to Gartner.

Avnet is to distribute the full range of Eaton’s power quality products and services to the Australian IT channel.

DuPont Apollo, a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont, has opened its silicon-based, thin-film photovoltaic module manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. The facility supports renewable energy such as solar.

Light-emitting diodes will become the dominant large-area TFT LCD backlight unit light source by 2011 with a 56% share, according to a DisplaySearch report.

Bishop & Associates has released a seven-chapter research report defining the World Connector Market for Renewable Energy.

Terepac Corporation and IMEC are collaborating on packaging technologies for flexible electronics.

An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria has found that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs).

Datacraft has won a $8.9 million contract to ensure a high-connectivity and secure infrastructure for one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical company's new Asian resource centre in Singapore.

In the second quarter of 2009, the value of the total notebook PC market was $30.0 billion, up 10% but down 5% over the year, according to a new report by DisplaySearch.

Texas Instruments has opened a manufacturing facility in Richardson, Texas, believed to be the world's only production facility to use 300 mm silicon wafers to manufacture analog chips.

A partnership between Tokyo Electron (TEL) and Oerlikon Solar will make inroads into the Australian solar market and will introduce thin film photovoltaic technology.

Hitachi High-Technologies and Renesas Technology have agreed to a transfer of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment business of wholly owned Renesas subsidiary, Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, to Hitachi High-Tech Instruments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi High-Technologies.