Panasonic aims to increase its European lighting revenue in 2018, reported Kyodo News. The plan is to raise lighting revenue in Europe from JYP 30 billion (US $330 million) in 2014 to JYP 36 billion by 2018. Panasonic analyzed there is ...
Tags: Panasonic, European market, Lighting Revenue
Speaking at a roundtable at IFA 2015 in Berlin, a top official of LG Electronics (LG) revealed the company’s plan to sell five times as many OLED TVs in the second half of 2015 than it did in the first half with the aim of making LG ...
Tags: LG, Home Entertainment, OLED TV
The supply of active-matrix organic LEDs (AMOLEDs) needs serious expansion for the display technology to move beyond its niche in high-end Korean smart phones. That’s according to market analyst Vinita Jakhanwal at iSuppli, who ...
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Equipment spending by semiconductor chip manufacturers, a key industrial market for vendors of both lithography and laser-based wafer processing systems, will reach $32 billion in 2010 – more than double the 2009 figure. ...
Tags: semiconductor, chip, LED fab
In 2007 Sony grabbed the world's attention with its XEL-1 TV, offering pitch-black blacks and superb motion resolution from a wafer-thin, low power consumption panel. Despite its modest 11-inch size, the milestone product put organic light ...
Tags: OLED products, OLED display, Sony, Samsung
Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...
Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays
Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to a new analyst report. Lux Research, which specializes in predicting the impact of emerging and ...
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In a dramatic change from the status quo, nearly half of all gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs will be produced on silicon substrates by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new report by analysts at IHS, who forecast that the ...
Tags: LED Production, GaN LEDs, sapphire wafers
Powered by a growing range of applications, 3D printing – encompassing laser additive manufacturing at the higher end – will become a mainstream production tool in many industries. Significant growth for this sector is predicted ...
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According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the wavelength division multiplexer or WDM market grew 10 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014 reaching a new record revenue level of $2.6 billion. The ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the 2014 edition of its Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing R&D Roadmap. The Roadmap, which complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan, intended for R&D programs, aims to guide ...
Tags: LED, OLED Lighting
If current proposals by the European Commission are adopted, consumers will no longer be able to purchase any domestic halogen eco lamps after 2018, warns industry association Lighting Europe. The pressure group has published a ...
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Analysts at the consultancy company IHS are predicting a 25 per cent rise in global demand for photovoltaics in 2015, with the emergence of the Indian market set to contribute strongly for the first time. “While 2014 remained a ...
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Flat-panel computer monitors capable of producing an unprecedented range of colors are going on sale in Europe next month, thanks to quantum dot technology that appears on the verge of making a major impact on the displays industry. ...
Applications of CCMs in the mobile phone and automotive sectors are fueling camera module revenues. Driven by the mobile phone and automotive sectors, the sales value of the Compact Camera Module (CCM) industry will grow by a factor of by ...
Tags: Compact Camera, Camera Module