LEDs ♦ news digest
Asif Anwar, Director, Strategy Analytics Strategic Technologies Practice adds, “Revenue is typically the highest in the third quarter, as manufacturers increase production in advance of the holiday season. Despite the declines at the end of the year, Strategy Analytics expects 2012 revenue growth for the industry to be close to the historical average of 6 percent.”
The Strategy Analytics report reviews a variety of commercial and military applications that use GaAs, GaN, SiC, SiGe and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technologies. It summarises financial, product, contract and employment developments from leading compound semiconductor device suppliers from January 2012.
SÜSS MicroTec acquires Tamarack
The German based firm aims to expand its knowledge in projection photolithography Headquartered in Garching near Munich, SÜSS MicroTec has acquired Tamarack Scientific Co. Inc., which is based in Corona, California, USA.
Both parties have signed a purchase agreement which stipulates the purchase of 100% of Tamarack’s shares for a total price of $ 9.34 million plus a variable earn-out component. The additional cost will depend on revenues in the next three financial years.
The requirement for greater functionality and performance of electronic devices drives the increasing needs for semiconductor components with higher complexity.
This trend is expected to prevail in the future and require the adoption of innovative technologies in the semiconductor backend sector. In the past two years, initiatives were undertaken to focus and reposition SÜSS MicroTec to ensure that the company will remain in a position to respond to market and customer requirements in a fast and flexible manner. The further strategic step is the recent acquisition of Tamarack Scientific.
Tamarack develops, manufactures and distributes UV projection lithography systems as well as laser micro- structuring tools for the Advanced Packaging, 3D Integration, MEMS and LED markets. These systems are used in high volume industrial manufacturing as well as research and development.
With the acquisition of Tamarack, SÜSS MicroTec is pursuing a consolidation strategy in the semiconductor backend equipment industry by complementing its exposure technology portfolio with projection lithography.
‘With this acquisition, we enlarge our company’s lithography segment by adding a new product line and core technology, both of which are highly complementary to our existing exposure capability”, says Frank P. Averdung, President and CEO of SÜSS MicroTec AG.
“SÜSS MicroTec thereby becomes the leading backend lithography equipment and solution provider by offering the
Bridgelux Micro SM4 LED
The Micro SM4 is aimed at dramatically reducing the component count, cost, complexity and size of diffuse or directional lamps used in ceiling fixtures in modern office buildings and retail establishments.
This LED is a light source, analogous to the heated gases or hot wires found in fluorescent bulbs and incandescent lights. The difference comes in energy consumption, longevity and control. The Micro SM4 light source consumes only 4.2 W, but it emits as much light as a 20 - 40 W incandescent or 20-35 W halogen B10-style bulb and will last thousands of hours longer.
The Micro SM4 component also delivers high flux density in a smaller footprint, giving designers, architects and lamp manufacturers greater freedom when it comes to creating and illuminating interior spaces.
“We’ve developed products with Bridgelux LED arrays over April/May 2012
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most comprehensive set of products and technologies to the market. This enables us to uniquely satisfy a range of customer’s needs and allows us to offer a broad product range to meet the different price and performance points required by the industry.”
“We are pleased to become a part of SÜSS MicroTec, a company with a strong market position in semiconductor backend lithography, a global sales and service infrastructure as well as a solid financial position. Together with SÜSS MicroTec, we can now expand our lithography and laser processing systems business faster and more successfully in our target markets,” adds Courtney Sheets, Chairman and CEO of Tamarack Scientific.
Bridgelux’s new micro LED
for commercial lighting A smaller footprint on the 20 - 40 W replacement market segment constitutes a $1 billion opportunity in the $100 billion market for lighting Bridgelux is making its new Micro SM4 surface mountable LED component commercially available.
The LED innovator says this multiple die emitter will decrease the cost and improve the performance of lighting in commercial buildings.
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