LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy expects flip chip LED components for use in lighting and LCD TV backlighting to account for 15-20% of its 2014 consolidated revenues, according to company chairman Frank Chien. Formosa ...
Tags: Flip Chip LED, Lighting
LED lighting as a percentage of all types of lighting in the global market is expected to reach 20% in 2013, and the penetration is likely to rise to 30% in 2014, according to Taiwan-based LED packaging house Everlight Electronics. ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Bulbs
UK-based PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) undertaker Sola UK is seeking suppliers of crystalline silicon PV modules through Taiwan's PIDA (Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association), according to a ...
Tags: PV, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Reshuffling in the LED chip manufacturing industries in Taiwan and China through merger may happen faster than originally expected and larger makers will merge with smaller ones, leaving only two Taiwan-based makers and three China-based ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED packaging
Prices for sapphire, due to potential extended use in smartphones, are expected to increase 10-15% in the first or second quarter of 2014, Taiwan-based makers cited Russia-based sapphire maker Monocrystal as indicating. Following use to ...
Tags: Sapphire, smartphone rear cameras
China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers will add an estimated 69 and 125 MOCVD sets in total in 2013 and 2014, respectively, while Taiwan-based makers will add 212 in 2013 and 307 in 2014, according to matket watchers. Due to ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED Lighting, Epitaxial Wafer
Crystal Applied Technology and Crystalwise Technology have become suppliers of sapphire wafers used to make covers for the iPhone 5s home key which features fingerprint recognition, according to Taiwan-based makers. A 2-inch sapphire ...
While mid-power LED chips account for only a small proportion of LED lighting currently, the proportion will grow fast over the next few years to reach about 50%, Philips Lumileds Lighting CEO Pirre-Yves Lesaicherre said during a Digitimes ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Taiwan- and China-based LED chip makers are expected to lay the emphasis on market share gains over the next two years, instead of profitability which was primarily considered in the past, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for ...
Tags: LED Makers, Epistar
Green Energy Technology (GET), Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) and Gigastorage, the three main Taiwan-based makers of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers, are expected to see their business operations improve in the second half ...
China-based PV module makers have asked Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers to decrease prices to the same level offered by China-based makers, but the Taiwan makers do not plan to accept mainly because the cost of silver ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV Module
Cree has seen better than expected sales performance for its LED light bulbs made using mid-power LED chips and other international LED lighting vendors will adopt mid-power LED chips as well. As a result, Taiwan-based makers Epistar, ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Epistar, Everlight, Lextar
China white-box handsets have seen declined popularity in emerging markets where mobile telecom carriers and retail channels are eager to look for products of better quality, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. This is likely to ...
After having landed smartphone orders from Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Huawei, BlackBerry and High-Tech Computer (HTC), China-based EMS provider BYD has recently acquired orders for an Acer entry-level smartphone, Hewlett-Packard (HP) ...
Tags: Educational Tablet, Electronics
In addition to Taiwan-based component suppliers, Intel is now also inviting China-based suppliers to join its 2-in-1 product supply chain, hoping to leverage their cost advantages to compete in the IT market, according to sources from the ...
Tags: Component Suppliers, Intel 2-in-1