Industry News
Laser Breakthrough
Infineon Technologies says it has achieved a breakthrough in 1300 nm vertical cavity surface-emitting laser technology.
[ + ]Joint Venture Will Make LCD Panels
Toshiba is establishing a joint venture to manufacture low temperature polysilicon LCD (liquid crystal display) panels in Tampines, Singapore.
[ + ]Physicists Defy Weakest Link
The newly discovered superconducting material magnesium borate has properties that will have important implications for use as a conductor and a high field-generating device.
[ + ]Silicon Solutions Partnership
Conexant and Motorola have agreed to jointly define, develop and manufacture system silicon solutions for broadband communications devices.
[ + ]Tektronix/Emona Expand Business Relationship
Tektronix Australia and Emona Instruments have formed an enhanced partnership that will expand Emona's portfolio of Tektronix' oscilloscope and digital design products.
[ + ]Optical Networks for China
Marconi has expanded its penetration of the Chinese communications market, with a wave of new contracts to supply leading-edge solutions to provincial telecoms operators, regional utility companies and a cable television enterprise which is moving into internet technology.
[ + ]IDT acquires Newave Semiconductor Corporation
IDT has announced that it will acquire telecommunications IC provider, Newave Semiconductor Corporation.
[ + ]Record 3.2 Tbps Data Transmission
Siemens has broken what it claims is a world record for data transmission capacity by transmitting 3.2 Terabits per second of traffic on standard optical fibre under real conditions.
[ + ]Joint Venture Will Make LCD Panels
Toshiba is establishing a joint venture to manufacture low temperature polysilicon LCD (liquid crystal display) panels in Tampines, Singapore. The joint venture company was incorporated in March with production of panels scheduled to start in July 2002. Production capacity is expected to be 55,000 730 x 920 mm glass substrates per month by 2003.
[ + ]Fund injection for Integrated Optics
Redfern Integrated Optics has received its first external investment funding worth $23.5 million. Tallwood Venture Capital and New Zealand-based TMT together with the original investor Redfern Photonics also participated in the round.
[ + ]Lead Free TVs
Matsushita Electric Company (Aust) Pty Ltd has unveiled its plans to produce lead free soldered printed circuit boards for its locally produced television sets.
[ + ]Lithography Development
The Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) LLC and IBM have announced that IBM has joined the industry consortium to support the development of EUV lithography technology.
[ + ]Call for more action for innovation and research
In the wake of the Federal Government's new Innovation Action Plan, leading industry groups have called for more to be done to raise the profile of R&D and innovation in Australia.
[ + ]Seminar shows business range of government assistance available
The Government Business Programs Seminar to be held on 5th March helps companies find out about the range of government assistance available to their business.
[ + ]Innovonics reaches agreement on major rail project
Melbourne-based Innovonics Ltd has agreed to design, build and supply EDI Rail with communications and surveillance equipment sets for the first 20 trains of Sydney's latest fleet over the next two years.
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