Taiwan-based LED firms are targeting DoB (driver on board) orders from 6,000-7,000 small- to medium-size regional lighting vendors mostly in the US and Europe, according to industry sources. DoB integrates high-voltage chips and driver ...
Tags: LED Makers, LED Lamps, driver on board, LED
For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
Tags: LED Makers, Entry Level, Electrical
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has extended its line of PAR and AR111 lamps to offer a full range of halogen ...
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There will be 1.81 billion LED light bulbs shipped globally in 2015, hiking 59.9% on year and accounting for 13.9% of all lighting products, according to Digitimes Research. In 2015, 6.02 billion compact fluorescent lamps and 5.13 billion ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics expects consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 to decrease on quarter by 10-15% and sales for the first quarter of 2015 to increase by about 10%, according to the company. ...
Tags: LED epitaxial wafer, LCD TVs, Lights
Hyundai as introduced the next generation of i40 Tourer and Saloon, built at the car maker's European R&D headquarters in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The car will be available in two Euro6-compliant diesel power engine options that can ...
UK-based Intertronics has recently launched the Dymax 3401 dual cure (UV and moisture) adhesive which has been designed for the rapid bonding of a wide variety of plastic and metal substrates, including PC and ABS applications. The ...
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Taiwan-based Eiso Enterprise will be listed on the Taiwan over-the-counter (OTC) stock market at an initial price of NT$32 (US$1.03) per share on December 23, according to the company. Eiso specializes in the manufacture of niche-market ...
Tags: stock market, LED backlight, LED TVs, Lights
Vertically-integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics has begun shipments of ET8 LED light tubes in compliance with electronic ballast and ultra-thin LED panel lamps, while LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology has seen increased ...
Tags: LED Light Tubes, LED packaging, Lights
The global ultraviolet (UV) market value in 2014 is estimated to reach US$815 million, of which the UV LED market will have about a 15% market share equivalent to US$122 million in market value, according to LEDinside. "UV LED single unit ...
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Ohio State University and University of Illinois at Chicago have developed deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on III-nitride semiconductor nanowires [Thomas F Kent et al, Nanotechnology, vol25, p455201, 2014]. The ...
The overall market for lamps will rise from $17.9bn now to peak at $21.2bn in 2018 before shrinking to $16bn by 2022, forecasts market research firm Strategies Unlimited in its latest annual report ‘The Worldwide Market for ...
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General Motors is planning to recall around 316,357 SUVs and sedans mainly North American region, due to issues related to low-beam headlights which can stop working. The affected vehicles include 2006-2009 Buick LaCrosse sedans, ...
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The ongoing transition from fluorescent to LED lighting technologies amounts to a significant disruption for the lighting industry, potentially changing the methods by which lighting is provided and sold to customers. While conventional ...
Tags: LED Luminaires, Lights
3D printing is commonly known as increasing material manufacturing technology which is a kind of rapid prototyping technology. It is a step by step through 3D design data using the material accumulation and the curing methods such as laser ...
Tags: 3D printing, LED lighting