South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has launched a 0.6T side-view LED, optimized for the fast-growing smart-phone and tablet (phablet) market, which requires high brightness and high efficacy. The 0.6mm (tall) LED delivers 8.8 ...
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LED chipmaker Epistar plans to find important downstream strategic partners by issuing 250 million new shares for private placement, and targeting Europe- and US-based lighting brands as investors. The deal is expected to be completed ...
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Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
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Strategies Unlimited has issued new figures since the first edition of this article. Solid State Technology now brings you updated figures and additional information on the worldwide LED market. LED component revenue for lighting ...
OSRAM AG, light-emitting diode (LED) manufacturer, laid the foundation for its Wuxi, China, plant, in a ceremony attended by high-ranking representatives of the Jiangsu province. The groundbreaking begins construction; the back-end LED ...
Yole Développement announced today its new report “UV LEDs: Technology & Application Trends” which presents UV LED new applications and associated market metrics for the period 2012-2020, and a deep analysis of UV LED ...
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CoorsTek, one of the largest technical ceramics manufacturers, today announced introduction of aluminum nitride substrates. Ideal for the rapidly growing LED market and other markets where high heat dissipation is useful, these ceramic ...
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Taiwan-based tier-two LED chipmaker Tyntek has confirmed that its upstream blue epitaxial wafer firm Alpha Plus Epi has suspended production. Rumors regarding the production suspension of Alpha Plus Epi have been circulating in the market ...
Due to UV curing, UV LEDs should become a $270m business by 2017, and could hit $300m if new applications boom, according to a report ‘UV LEDs: Technology & Application Trends’ from market research firm Yole Développement ...
With increasing awareness of global climate change and the importance of energy conservation, more and more countries have launched LED lighting projects and subsidy policies. As a result, even though the growth of the LED market in 2012 ...
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Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar has reported February consolidated revenues of NT$1.259 billion (US$42 million), representing an on-month decrease of 6.7% and an on-year decrease of 12.5%. The accumulated revenues for the first two ...
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LED lighting needs to have a unified standard, said Horng-Ching Hsiao, professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and a member of The Illuminating Engineering Society of Taiwan. Hsiao noted that in recent years, the ...
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The chief executive officer (CEO) of Philips lighting in North America Greg Sebasky has said he believes that consumer attitudes towards lighting are changing, as they now see it as "a durable good". However, it would appear that ...
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Company sells production site in China’s Shaoxing As part of the corporate reorganization initiated last year, Osram has reached another milestone and agreed the sale of its production site in Shaoxing. The buyer is Hong Kong based ...
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The global output value of high-brightness LEDs in 2013 is predicted to reach US$11.29 billion, representing an on-year growth rate of 15.8%. Increasing demand for LED lighting applications is the reason for the anticipated growth in market ...
Tags: LEDs, LED lighting, 2013