GLG News by Semiconductor Capital Equipment Experts

How will the U.S. innovative firms prominently continue the global leadership in LED (Light Emitting Diode) device? How will the green energy incorporate newer lighting technologies? What are the challenges that affect the technological development in the clean lighting industry?

1. In the high power, emerging LED industry, for lighting, one of the ways the leading LED manufactuers can protect their business from becoming a commodity is to patent their technology and then vigorously protect it against copycats that infringe on their IP. 2. The leading supplier has been and...

1. LED's offer mover enrgy efficient solution than CFL for backlighting with energy savingss in the 35% to 50% area. 2. LED solutions do not have mercury in them as do the current CFL solutions, so this makes LED's a so called green technology. 3.Nichia will be main beneficiary of move to LED's...

* Hoya is a major manufacturer of glass and supplies many of the glass substrates used in mobile hard disk drives.  * In addition to substrates Hoya manufactures some hard disk media as well.  * Showa Denko has been a customer of Hoya for media substrates and is the largest...

* Fujitsu is the sixth in unit shipping volume of HDD companies making 2.5-inch drives for notebook, consumer and enterprise applications.  * Fujitsu is one of the oldest companies in the HDD business and has been responsible for much technology innovation in the industry.  * Reports abound...

What is the merit and advantage for Japanese and other leading Asian brands in Korea and Taiwan to play with in the consumer electronics market? How spaciously could be U.S. firms to play in the portable consumer electronics market when Apple has lost its power in driving further cost reduction and...

* Metadata is information that describes the contents of a piece of data or content  * Standards that make metadata created in one device readable in another device are in their infancy  * Most metadata today must be entered manually but this takes more time than most people can afford ...

Fiber is actually still the dominant platform to transmit and receive high bandwidth data. The question if to extend it to the home ( FTTH) or to the node ( FTTN) is a valid one but does not shade its future. When IPTV and other bandwidth demanding applications will knock on the door- the solution...

Combining TV and PC was the ultimate dream of consumers. IPTV has proved that it's possible and now is time to harvest the fruits. Gartner's analysis should not come as a surprise since the platforms are ready and just regulations and rights are impeding the process. The huge increase of IPTV subscriptions...

Troubled Sprint that puts all its bets on WiMAX has first to prove that LTE is not generating a real threat. Ciena proved that it has a suitable solution and it will benefit first. However, Sprint's success is heavily dependent on the question whether G4 WiMax mobile will run. The fiber optic...