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NEWS & FEATURES

Corning, Samsung Mobile Display form OLED glass substrate venture

02/03/2012 Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) and Samsung Mobile Display Co. Ltd. will establish a new equity venture for the manufacture of specialty glass substrates for organic light emitting diode (OLED) dev...

Corning, Samsung Corning renew LCD substrates agreements

02/03/2012 Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), Samsung Corning Precision Materials Co. Ltd., and the AMLCD division of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. renewed, for five more years, the two main agreements for their...

Tokyo Electron (TEL) establishes organic EL and FPD departments, eliminates MEMS dev

02/03/2012 Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) restructured its organization, with a new "Organic EL Division" established under GM Takeshi Okubo, as well as other new and consolidating subsidiaries in the se...

Hanwha moves to manufacture ElectriPlast moldable conductive plastic

02/03/2012 Hanwha L&C of Korea signed a letter of intent to obtain manufacturing and distribution rights to ElectriPlast from Integral Technologies Inc, hybrid conductive plastics maker. The LOI is applic...

X-FAB Silicon Foundries adopts SFT software

02/03/2012 X-FAB Silicon Foundries, a More-than-Moore semiconductor foundry, has used SFT's R3D (Resistive 3D) software for its 0.18µm high-voltage process (XH018), providing improvements in reliability and e...

Suntech, DuPont to collab on solar backsheets, supply-chain improvements

02/03/2012 A new partnership between Suntech and DuPont will focus on backsheet materials that protect solar panels, their construction and how that affects their longevity, and how backsheets might...

AMD outlines SoC-centric strategy

02/03/2012 AMD's (NYSE:AMD) new president and CEO Rory P. Read detailed what he called an "ambidextrous" strategy for the company, building on its x86 and graphics IP while incorporating other techn...

Smart mobile consumer electronics head for 25%+ growth

02/02/2012 Consumer electronics devices are shifting from specific functions to multiple functions and Internet connectivity, creating an overlap of features and functions between product categories not only ...

Miasolé claims 17% efficient CIGS device, 14% in production

02/02/2012 Miasolé says it has created a 17.3 percent "champion" thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar photovoltaic device, and has started making 14 percent efficient modules in pro...

Inertial MEMS sensor maker Qualtre names engineering leader

02/02/2012 Qualtré, silicon MEMS inertial sensors developer, appointed Dr. Ijaz Jafri as VP of engineering, responsible for all aspects of product development and commercialization. Jafri has 16+ years of exp...

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