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New Silicon PV Cell Process to Integrate Technologies from 1366 and RENA

1366 Technologies, a silicon photovoltaics (PV) equipment company, today announced it has partnered with RENA, the PV market leader in wet processing, to incorporate 1366's Self-Aligned Cell technology into a complete cell production process. The new high-efficiency silicon cell process will integrate 1366's proprietary structured patterning technology with RENA's wet processing technology.

23 Mar 2010

SAFC Expects Expansion Strategy to Strengthens its Position in HBLED Market

SAFC Hitech®, a business segment within SAFC®, a division of the Sigma-Aldrich® Group (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced it plans to invest $2m (approximately 1.2m pounds Sterling) in expanding production of trimethylgallium (TMG) at its Bromborough, Wirral, UK manufacturing plant. The investment, which was supported by Wirral Council and The Mersey Partnership (TMP), who helped secure additional funding of 300,000 pounds from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), is expected to enable SAFC Hitech to strengthen its position as a leading global supplier of TMG and satisfy the growing demand for the material in the production of high brightness LEDs (HBLEDs) for use in applications such as backlighting in flat panel television sets and energy efficient lighting.

23 Mar 2010

ClariPhy Unveils CL1012 CDR IC for Line Cards with XFP, XFP+ Modules

ClariPhy Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high speed communications ICs, today announced shipment of its CL1012 clock and data recovery (CDR) IC with maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) into line cards with Tunable XFP and XFP+ modules for 10 Gb/s optical networking.

23 Mar 2010

First Complete Chipset to Build Compact, High-Performance Optical Systems

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks, announced the industry’s first complete chipset solution for line cards, CXP, and CFP optical transceivers used in next-generation servers, routers, and OTN transport equipment.

23 Mar 2010

AppliedMicro Introduces PQX 10G, 40G OTN Framer SoC

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (Nasdaq:AMCC) today announced the PQX, the industry’s highest density, lowest power 10G/40G Optical Transport Network (OTN) framer/PHY System-On-a-Chip (SoC) for Carrier Ethernet router and WDM transport systems.

23 Mar 2010

Vitesse Announces Expansion of FTTx Technology Ecosystem

Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets: VTSS), a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks, today announced the continued expansion of its FTTx (Fiber-to-the-Home, Building or Premise) Technology Ecosystem. The newest members include FiberHome, Oplink and BroadLight. This Ecosystem is an industry forum for companies across the entire Passive Optical Network (PON) hardware spectrum to accelerate deployment of next-generation 10G-PON FTTx platforms. The new members join an impressive list of participating companies and PON technology innovators including Anritsu, CyOptics, Emcore, ETRI, Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies, Huawei, NEC Electronics, NeoPhotonics, Opulan, Source Photonics, ZTE, and Vitesse.

23 Mar 2010

TriQuint Starts Manufacturing of SMT 40, 100 Gbps Devices

TriQuint Semiconductor, a leading RF product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced that it has begun high-volume production for major optical network manufacturers of new driver amplifiers, including the market’s first surface-mount technology (SMT) 40 and 100 Gb/s (gigabits per second) devices.

23 Mar 2010

New Miniature Fiber Optic Solution for Supercomputers from Avago

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq:AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today introduced the fastest, most energy-efficient embedded interconnect technology of its kind, an embedded fiber optic solution that could eventually replace copper as the optimal solution for handling high-speed data rate requirements of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

23 Mar 2010

Avago Introduces High-Bandwidth, Low-Cost Parallel Optic Module

Avago Technologies, today announced it has developed one of the industry’s most compact and innovative low-cost, high-bandwidth parallel optic solution for short-range data and communication interconnect applications.

23 Mar 2010

NetLogic to Demonstrate 10/40/100 GE and 8.5G FibreChannel Optical PHYs

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced that it will be showcasing a broad portfolio of high-performance, market-leading networking and communications PHY products for 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet and 8.5 Gigabit FibreChannel at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) 2010 in the San Diego Convention Center, Calif., from March 23-25 at booth #3045.

23 Mar 2010