Manufacturing

Cree plans to build the world’s largest SiC fab in March, New York State.

Intelligent, automated lifts have been installed at Vanilla Electronics as part of a £200,000 investment in the Thetford-based distributor and manufacturer’s technology centre. The company supplies manufacturing services, such as customised design, component supply, kitting, box-build manufacturing and supply chain services. The company has installed two 9.6m tall intelligent automated tower storage units (Lean lifts) which automatically pick components for ...

Rockley Electronics is a silicon photonics start-up that recently raised $52m in a funding round, bringing its total to $165m. With all this investor interest, it was time to find out exactly what the company is offering, so Electronics Weekly spoke to its founder and CEO Andrew Rickman – and industry veteran with some history in photonics. In 1988, Rickman founded pioneering ...

Globalfoundries has sold some of the manufacturing equipment at its photo mask facility in Burlington Vermont to Toppan Photomasks and will be transferring more mask manufacturing tools to the Advanced Mask Technology Centre (AMTC) jv owned by Toppan and GloFo in Dresden. Over the next several months, Toppan and GLoFo will work to transition the acquired equipment and processes to ...

On-silicon photonics firm Rockley Photonics has accumulated $52m in the first closure of Series E funding round

Kontron has bought Fujitsu’s Augsburg-based industrial motherboard business from Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH. The transfer of the operational business from Fujitsu Technology Solutions to Kontron is planned to start in October. “The acquisition of the embedded motherboard business of Fujitsu Technology Solutions is a strategic step to expand these products with its own IoT software technology,” said Kontron. “Kontron will also ...

Swansea University is to get a facility for semiconductor packaging and module engineering

Established in London, Soundlock Engineering repairs, services and refurbishes old sound equipment. The company was recently challenged with refurbishing two Studer A800’s, tape machines introduced in 1978. Upon investigation of these broken machines, it was clear the ball bearings used needed replacing. To repair tape machines of this type, engineers need to heat parts up to make the metal more ...

Yorkshire-based PCB manufacturer, GSPK Circuits, believes it is the first in the UK to install an EPAG finish line. EPAG (electroless palladium autocatalytic gold) is a new direct palladium surface finish process with an optional gold layer. The thicker gold finish enables it to be used in gold wire bonding assembly as well as soldering. The manufacturer has partnered with ...

International fibre laser maker IPG Photonics is to spend £15m building a UK headquarters in Coventry. To open before next year on a 1.7ha site in Coventry’s Ansty Park, according to the West Midlands Growth Company (see below), it will create 30 jobs in electronic and mechanical production, robotics and laser processing. “IPG Photonics is looking to work with the ...