For many LED manufacturers, 2014 has been a prosperous and challenging year. Lighting market demands were stronger than expected in 1H14, leading to a period of LED supply shortages. Despite the positive development, the industry was ...
Tags: LED chip, LED backlight
LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan says that EDN (Electronic Design News) has named its newest line of white chip-scale packages, the ReadyMount Enhanced CSP (EC) series, as one of the ‘Hot 100 Products of ...
Tags: LED chip, phosphor technology, Electrical
Based on LED epitaxial wafer makers' capacity expansion plans, there will be 252 MOCVD sets shipped globally in 2015, growing 10.5% on year and consisting of 186 sets to be added by China-based makers, 30 by Taiwan-based ones, 19 sets by ...
Tags: LED epitaxial wafer, LED Lights
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has obtained orders for 3014 packaged mid- and low-power LED chips for lighting from Philips, with shipments to begin in 2015, according to industry sources. Philips chose two ...
Tags: Philips, LED Lighting, Lights
Global in 2015 will double those in 2014, but the corresponding production value will increase only 30% due to estimated price drops of 30-35%, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Europe will account for 23% of the global LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, shipments, Lights
For its fiscal full-year 2014 (to end-August), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $14.5m, down 19% on $18m in fiscal 2013 (with LED chips falling 12%, LED components 23%, and lighting ...
Tags: Quarterly Revenue, Semileds, Electrical
SemiLEDs, a developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, has announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2014, ended August 31, 2014. Revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 were ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has seen its overall capacity utilization drop from about 50% in October to below 50% in November and the utilization is expected to further slip in December, according to the company. However, ...
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Due to inventory adjustments at lighting makers and weak demand for TV backlighting applications, LED chip makers are expected to suffer significant on-quarter decreases in shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to LED supply ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED Epitaxial Wafer, LED
Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, the Hi-Q-LED project has made advances with green LEDs, diminishing the ‘green ...
Taiwan-based makers from the LED lighting sector have been tapping emerging markets, including Indonesia, Thailand, India, Russia and Brazil, as they face fierce competition in North America, Europe, Japan and China, according to industry ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED Lighting
China-based LED packaging houses, including Leedarson Lighting and Yankong Lighting, have fully automated packaging lines for 0.2-0.5W 2835 (specification code) low-power LED chips for use in light bulbs and tubes, with prices lower than ...
Tags: LED Packaging, LED Chips
In view of fast growing demand for LED lighting in the US, the largest China-based LED packaging service provider MLS has expanded monthly production capacity of LED light bulbs and tubes to 10 million units, while Taiwan-based Unity Opto ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED light bulbs
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 28 September 2014), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $427.7m, up 9% on $391m a year ago but down 2% on $436.3m last quarter (and below the $440-465m forecasted in mid-August). ...
Demand for LED lighting products for the fourth quarter will be weak as LED lighting vendors took deliveries in the second and third quarters for products to be launched in the fourth, and some will adjust inventories through the end of the ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED Products