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Bookham to close GaAs fab

In the same week it bought Onetta, a US optical amplfier firm, Bookham Technology said it is closing its wafer fab in the UK. The gallium arsenide wafer fab at Caswell, Northamptonshire, will close, Bookham said. The firm will end production of monolithic microwave ICs. The firm would not issue a statement, but a notice on its website reads: “Bookham ...

Wafer fab brings jobs to Wales

International Rectifier (IR) will invest $40m to bring its 200mm wafer fab in Newport, Wales into production, creating 120 new jobs. In 2002 IR bought a 150mm and a 200mm fab from ESM (the former Newport Wafer Fab) for $81m. IR started to ramp the 150mm plant in March 2002. “Since the acquisition IR has invested over $66m to expand ...

Philips and others test TV to go

Before they make it into PCs and aircraft and washing machines and DVD players, electronic devices are developed and tested out in controlled environments. But for some consumer electronics products, that laboratory is much bigger than the typical facility at a chip company. For example BMCO’s lab will be the entire city of Berlin when it launches its test programme ...