China's growing demand for greener illumination gave the country's light emitting diode (LED) makers an easy time this year with good profits in the first half of 2014. Of 38 listed LED makers to publish semiannual financial results, 31 ...
Kiyosu, Japan, July 15, 2014: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (Toyoda Gosei) has entered into a License Agreement relating to silicate-based white LEDs with Harvatek Corporation, a leading manufacturer of SMD LEDs headquartered in Taiwan. Toyoda ...
Taiwan-based LED maker Epistar announced a merger with Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) on June 30, 2014, with the former aiming to fully acquire the latter and become the surviving company. Epistar explained that the merger is meant to improve its ...
Tags: LED orders, epitaxial wafer, LED
After the recession in 2011 and 2012, the LED industry saw a turning point in 2013 when the die and package LED markets rose 8.3% from 2012 to about $15.188bn, according to the 'Global and China LED Industry Report, 2013-2014' from Research ...
Tags: LED market, LED
China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a China-based company entering the top ranks of the global market for the first time ever, according to IHS. China's MLS Electronics in 2013 rose to the number ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED production
Driven by the fanfare over (and overestimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011. The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new ...
Tags: General Lighting, LED TV
In a further move to strengthen its leading position in the market for light-emitting diodes (LED), Osram today officially opened its LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. The factory has a floor area of about 100,000 square meters and will ...
Tags: Osram, LED Assembly Plant, LED transition
LED chips are a core component in the LED industry. There are currently many domestic and international LED chip manufacturers in China, but there currently are no categorization standards, according to a report by Chinese-language ...
Tags: LED Industry, LED Chips
The overall Front-End manufacturing trends for LED manufacturing are following the same path: decrease manufacturing costs, increase yield to improve binning, extract more light per mm² and per watt injected into the die… So all ...
GaN-on-Si technology has emerged naturally as an alternative to GaN-on-sapphire — the mainstream technology for LED applications. But today, despite potential cost benefits, the mass adoption of GaN-on-Si technology for LED ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics
The total market for packaged LEDs is forecast to increase in revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.9% from 2013 to 2018, according to Strategies Unlimited’s annual report ‘The Worldwide Market for LEDs: Market ...
Driven by the fanfare over (and over-estimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011, driven mostly by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new Chinese entrants, who benefited from the generous subsidies of the Chinese central and local governments in a bid to stimulate domestic chip production. Financial ...
Gallium nitride (GaN)-on-sapphire is the existing mainstream technology for LED manufacturing, but GaN-on-silicon technology has naturally appeared as an alternative to sapphire in order to reduce cost. However, a cost simulation by market ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN power electronics, LED
Mainly due to fast growing global demand for LED lighting, the LED industry will enjoy three golden years during 2014-2017, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar. Global demand for ...
Tags: LED industry, LED Chip