LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging service provider Lextar Electronics on August 27 announced that US-based Cree will invest US$83 million to acquire 13.32% of its stock through subscribing to 83 million new Lextar shares ...
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David Owen, regional sales director for Plessey (left), and John Macmichael, managing director of Solid State Supplies (right) Plessey has entered into a distribution agreement with Solid State Supplies to expand its European network. ...
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The company’s upholds a positive outlook, having made a production capacity breakthrough in June 2014, lowered costs in 3Q14 and optimized utilization rates and product portfolio. Optimistic about the emerging LED lighting market, ...
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A coalition of companies has been created in Taiwan to take advantage of the opportunities in the OLED market. The Organic Light-emitting Diode Lighting Commercialisation Alliance (OLCA) will aim to connect companies across the ...
The growing lighting end-market in 2014 is now projected to account for 35% of all packaged light-emitting diode (LED) dollars, according to a Research Note from Jamie Fox, principal analyst at market research firm IHS Inc. For the first ...
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For second-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, rebounding by 5% from €43.9m last quarter (which had been down 14% on the previous quarter) and up 2% on €45.3m ...
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The LED industry showed stable growth in first half of 2014, with conventional peak season arriving in 3Q14, many LED manufacturers July 2014 revenues set new historical records including listed companies Everlight, FOREPI and Lextar. LED ...
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Revenues for LED modules in lighting applications are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.8% to $7.8bn by 2019, according to Strategies Unlimited’s first report on the global LED module market. ...
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According to Strategies Unlimited, backlighting will comprise a larger portion of the modules market through 2018, at which point saturation and an increased usage by luminaire makers of third party LED modules will allow for the lighting ...
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Osram has unveiled plans for nearly 8,000 more job losses. The announcement comes as the German lighting giant's Push programme, which launched in 2012, comes to a close. "We will successfully complete the first stage of Osram Push ...
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The global high brightness LED market scale will reach US$14.4 billion in 2014 and is estimated to increase to US$16.6 billion by 2018, with a compound annual growth rate of 4%, according to LEDinside. The LED package market value for ...
OLEDs from Osram OLED panels will be on a par with LEDs in terms of performance by next year, according to a market report. The report by UBI, a South Korean research company, said the OLED lighting market will still be very small in ...
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UK-based Plessey has entered into a distribution agreement with CODICO GmbH, a demand creation distributor for electronic components, headquartered in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria and with offices across Europe. With CODICO, Plessey is expanding ...
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Following the announcement on June 30 that Epistar is acquiring Formosa Epitaxy (FOREPI), Epistar will have over 400 MOCVD reactors including those from FOREPI's China subsidiaries, more than double the GaN MOCVD of its nearest competitor, ...
China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a Chinese company entering the top 10 global ranking (by revenue) of packaged LED makers for the first time, according to the IHS LED Intelligence Service of ...
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