Zhaga Consortium is setting a new standard for LED light engine interfaces, which will create specifications aimed at ensuring the interchangeability of LED light sources from different manufacturers Epistar president Biing Jye Lee stated ...
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Taiwan-based LED firms are keen to compete for backlighting orders from China's LCD panel makers, whose supply to local TV vendors is growing fast. China's top-six TV brands sourced only 5% of their panels from domestic suppliers in ...
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Taiwan's government has decided to increase electricity prices, with industries expressing concerns over the impact to their production costs. Chairman of LED packaging firm Everlight, Robert Yeh, said China's government has been ...
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LED chipmaker Tekcore expects its shipments of backlighting applicatiosn for direct- and edge-type LED-backlit TVs to clients in Korea to gain momentum starting the second quarter of 2012 and the pace of decline of ASPs for its LED products ...
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US-based LED firm Cree reportedly plans to cut costs of LED street lamps by half to US$200/unit but no detail is avaiable. Industry sources say they are shocked by the news. If Creed decides to keep its street lamp prices cut in half, the ...
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LED firms, from upstream chip manufacturers to downstream packaging manufacturers, all saw sales growth in March, posing challenges for the traditional lighting market. Leading LED chip manufacturer, Epistar, saw revenues in March at ...
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LED packaging firm Unity Opto announced revenues in March was NT$400 million (US$13.55 million), a monthly growth rate of 28%, while the company's consolidated revenues came to NT$420 million, a monthly increase of 20%. Unity Opto said that ...
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The LED industry saw a recovery in the first quarter with increased orders of large-size LED backlights. This has increased LED firms' utilization rates to around 80-90% and revenues in March will increase as well. This is an improvement ...
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The leading global LED maker Nichia has remained low-key for many years, but with increasing opportunities in LED lighting, Nichia's layout strategies for attracting customers are changing. Recently, Nichia held a technical seminar in ...
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Taiwan-based Delta Electronics Inc. and AcBel Polytech Inc. have gained LED lightings orders from Japan, to help Japanese enterprises fight against upcoming price hikes of electricity caused by upcoming suspension of nuclear power plants. ...
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While Samsung Electronics has started a price war for its LED lighting products, Taiwan-based LED fellow makers have the competitive advantage of lower production costs, according to chairman Robert Yeh for Taiwan-based maker Everlight ...
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Taiwan-based LED firms such as Lextar Electronics, Lite-On Technology, Everlight Electronics, Delta Electronics and Bright Led Electronics stand a chance of winning contracts to supply LED devices for China-based partners to make about ...
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Epistar reported February revenues of NT$1.185 billion (US$40 million), up 20.91% on month but down 12.92% on year. Epistar noted that February had more working days compared to January which helped increase revenues. Furthermore, demand ...
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China's policy will not only benefit domestic LED firms, but also Taiwan-based peers, such as Delta, Bright LED and Lite-On, industry sources have noted. The firms who are eligible to compete for projects need to be registered in China and ...
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The subsidy program for upstream LED firms in China ended in 2011. There are many LED firms in China, but less than 20 of them have economies of scale and capacity of more than 20 MOCVD tools. To help the LED industry, the China government ...
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