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Plessey shifts from manufacturing to licence out GaN-on-Si LED IP

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UK LED maker Plessey is to move to an intellectual property licensing model, following City apathy towards British manufacturing. Its Plymouth fab will now focus on R&D, and only limited production. The firm has single-handedly developed a viable GaN-on-silicon process suitable for making high-power lighting LEDs, which are already selling in Europe, the US, China …

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Comment: New year brings a new BrightSparks opportunity

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As we glided past the 70th anniversary of the transistor in December, the value of the global chip market passed the $400bn mark. If Gartner’s predictions are to be believed these are extraordinary growth figures – up from $300bn in 2010 and $200bn in 2000. But another fact that may have been missed is that …

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Plessey is not going to mass produced LEDs in the UK

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Plessey is to licence its GaN-on-Si lighting led and Gan-on-Si micro-led display intellectual property instead of mass-producing it at its Plymouth fab. There is much more on the change in direction here It could not attract the investment needed to scale-up production in Plymouth, despite being the only firm in the world that seems to …

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Another Fine Mess

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Micron could have made a tactical error in suing UMC because UMC is now counter-suing Micron in a lawsuit which could see Micron memory barred from the China market. At a time when China-US trade relations are souring, with US politicians seeking legal barriers to China companies doing business in the USA, it would seem …

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AVX launches HR series resistors

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AVX has launched its HR Series high-value resistors. They have a glass wafer sandwich package enabled with AVX’s proprietary, automotive- and medically-qualified FLEXITERM surface-mount termination technology in a small EIA 0402 outline. They provide an extra margin against flexure damage during installation. The series offers: low current consumption, tight tolerances, DC power to 125mW, high …

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Soitec revenues up 25%

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Soitec, the SOI wafer specialist, had nine months revenues of €218.9 million 25% up on the first nine months of FY’17. “We continued to deliver strong revenue growth during the third quarter of the fiscal year,” says Soitec CEO Paul Boudre, “growth mainly came from the sharp increase in our new innovative Digital 300-mm products, …

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Hydrogen bikes in production in France

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AHydrogen-powered bikes are in production in France where some novel forms of transport like Zapata’s flying hoverboards have been puoneered recently. The bikes are made by Pragma Industries in Biarritz. They have a 60 mile range on two litres of hydrogen. Re-fills take a few minutes. Pragma calls them Alpha bikes and has sold 60 …

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