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Raytheon qualifies IQE North Carolina for defence components made in USA

What happened

IQE's North Carolina facility has been qualified by Raytheon to manufacture epitaxial wafers for advanced infrared sensing. This secures a high-value defense customer for IQE's advanced wafer technology. 关注 - Strategic qualification for defense supply chain.

Impact and signal

Low impactImpact score: 25/100

Affected components and suppliers

Infrared Sensing WafersEpitaxial Wafers

IQE plcRaytheonRTX

defensequalificationinfrared

Source and time

Source: Semiconductor Today · 1/8/2024 · View original source

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Raytheon qualifies IQE North Carolina for defence components made in USA

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