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Oclaro awarded for delivering optical solution within
Fujitsu timeframe - Jan 28, 2010
Fujitsu has awarded Oclaro, a leader in be of valuable assistance to the selected by Fujitsu for this award. More
optical components for industry development and production of Optical importantly, we are happy that our
applications, for delivering a solution within Gain Block for Fujitsu Network component portfolio and design capabilities
its required timeframe. Oclaro has been Communications. As a leading provider of allowed us to meet Fujitsu’s price
given a Distinguished Partner Award from optical components for industrial performance and schedule requirements.”
Fujitsu in recognition of its contribution in applications, Oclaro was selected for the Oclaro recently announced it can serve the
supporting the organisation in delivering an award after meeting Fujitsu’s required entire mid-power fibre-coupled market with
optical solution under the required schedule window. its Prosario platform, which meets the needs
timeframe. of the sub-40 watt space. The platform
Commenting on the award, Alain Couder, delivers 40-60 watts of power at 808
“Best-in-class” design capabilities and president and chief executive officer of nanometres and 50 watts at 880
pump lasers delivered by Oclaro proved to Oclaro, said: “We are very pleased to be nanometres.
AIXTRON expands to new R&D facilities - 27 Jan, 2010
AIXTRON AG today announced an important step in the Herzogenrath, Kaiserstraße, supported by the engineering and
implementation of its accelerated Research and Development assembly locations in Cambridge, UK, and Sunnyvale, US.
strategy by building a new state of the art R&D campus at its
premises in Herzogenrath-Kohlscheid in support of the company’s Paul Hyland, Chief Executive Officer of AIXTRON AG, comments:
Research and Development strategy. The new facility will be able to “This is a vitally important next step in the implementation of our
host up to 350 engineers at the end of phase 1, significantly product development strategy and the accelerated timing reflects
increasing the laboratory resources and prototype capabilities used the recent increase in volume and momentum we have seen in the
to develop next generation complex material deposition markets we serve. It also underlines our commitment to deliver
manufacturing systems. continuous improvement to the productivity of our products for our
customers. Looking at our near-term objectives; the requirement to
To fully develop these new modular cutting edge facilities, AIXTRON meet the improved performance and reduced cost of ownership
plans to invest up to ?40m over the next 2-3 years. The new facilities objectives necessary to support needs of the emerging LED general
will utilize a renewable energy design to minimize its carbon footprint. lighting market will require significant focus and commitment. This
AIXTRON will continue to focus the principal manufacturing of new facility will further increase our ability to be able to deliver both
standard deposition equipment at its nearby main facilities in of these requirements.
Plextek and TriQuint announce agreement for RF design and foundry -
27 Jan, 2010
Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics Plextek has a long history of full custom conception through to high volume
and communications design consultancy GaAs MMIC design for a wide range of manufacture and are aware of the issues
has announced that it is cooperating with applications, including mm-wave ICs for associated with packaging, verification,
TriQuint Semiconductor, an RF products broadband wireless access, wide band validation, production test, yield and cost,
manufacturer and foundry services provider, LNAs, limiters and frequency converters for thus ensuring customers achieve the
on a co-marketing agreement. ESM systems and precision attenuators for optimum result.”
instrumentation. It has designed over 40 full
The agreement adds Plextek to TriQuint’s custom ICs on a wide range of foundries “As the world’s leading provider of
third party RF design resources website and processes including TriQuint’s fabs in innovative GaAs and GaN foundry
which refers TriQuint’s foundry services both Oregon and Texas. Liam Devlin, technologies, we believe 3rd party design
customers to proven, specialist RF design Director of RF Integration at Plextek expertise, such as that provided by Plextek,
services. These customers can now comments: “Through our RFIC and MMIC will be invaluable to customers with limited
benefit from Plextek’s expert support to design services we can help TriQuint design resources. Many of these
augment their own development teams. For customers to get the most from TriQuint’s customers are driving pilot programs to
more than 20 years Plextek’s foundry manufacturing processes whilst prove the viability of emerging markets
multidisciplinary engineering skill has been plugging any internal knowledge gaps or critical to the growth of the RF industry.
used to tackle customers’ challenging resource limitations. Our chip designers We believe cooperative agreements such as
design projects and deliver within come from commercial backgrounds, with this benefit the entire RF ecosystem,” said
competitive time and cost constraints. experience of taking IC designs from Mike Peters, Director of Marketing for
Commercial Foundry at TriQuint.
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