AMOLED market forecast

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In this issue: • Market for AMOLED materials set to surge in 2014 • GaN-on-silicon LEDs forecast to increase market share to 40% by 2020 • Slideshow: IEDM 2013 Highlights • 50 years ago: January 1964 • Why SOI is the future of semiconductors • Nikkiso initiates shipments of deep ultraviolet LEDs • SEMICON West "Call for Papers" for New Semiconductor Technology Symposium, Science Park and TechXPOTs • Equipment spending down 2013; expect 33% growth in 2014 • Soitec and IntelliEPI to collaborate on GaAs semiconductor materials • Soitec and CEA sign a five-year R&D partnership • Book-to-bill: Year-end activity substantially stronger compared to last year	Share:
Top News Market for AMOLED materials set to surge in 2014With a flood of new competitors set to initiate or increase the production of active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panels next year, demand for materials used to make AMOLEDs is forecast to rise by nearly 27 percent in 2014.Share:    GaN-on-silicon LEDs forecast to increase market share to 40% by 2020The penetration of gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers into the light-emitting diode (LED) market is forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 69 percent from 2013 to 2020.Share:    Slideshow: IEDM 2013 HighlightsBrowse our slideshow of highlights from abstracts being presented last month at IEDM.Share:    50 years ago: January 1964The origin of Solid State Technology began in 1958, the same year that Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments invented the integrated circuit (the invention of the transistor is credited to Bell Labs; the first transistor was demonstrated on December 23, 1947).Share:
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Tech News Why SOI is the future of semiconductors Zvi Or-Bach, President & CEO of MonolithIC 3D, blogs that this is the "one learning" we can take away from IEDM 2013. (From SemiMD)Share:    Nikkiso initiates shipments of deep ultraviolet LEDsNIKKISO CO. has announced that it has initiated shipments of commercial LED product samples emitting at a range of wavelengths in the UVB and UVC spectral regimes for industrial, biomedical, and environmental applications.Share:    SEMICON West "Call for Papers" for New Semiconductor Technology Symposium, Science Park and TechXPOTsPresentation abstracts are due March 17, 2014. Share:

Business News Equipment spending down 2013; expect 33% growth in 2014Fab construction projects boom in 2013 but slow in 2014.Share:    Soitec and IntelliEPI to collaborate on GaAs semiconductor materialsSoitec and Intelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc., a provider of indium phosphide (InP), gallium arsenide (GaAs), and gallium antimonide (GaSb) epitaxial wafers, have signed a collaborative agreement to better serve the GaAs market.Share:    Soitec and CEA sign a five-year R&D partnershipSoitec and CEA have renewed their partnership for the next five years.Share:    Book-to-bill: Year-end activity substantially stronger compared to last yearNorth America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.24 billion in orders worldwide in November 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.11.Share:

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