After a fiscal year that Cree CEO Chuck Swoboda called "successful and challenging" for the the LED lighting developer, the company's fourth quarter revenues ultimately landed at the top end of expectations. Revenues for Q4 reached $243 ...
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China-based Tsinghua Tongfang held a ceremony for the beginning of production at its semiconductor and LED base in Nantong, China on August 8. The completion of the base, which includes organizing the property, building the plant, and ...
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Tokyo, Japan--A white-light LED spotlight introduced in Japan this week by Ushio achieves a color-rendering index as high as 97 (100 is perfect) by combining violet-emitting LED chips with red, green, and blue phosphors. This is in contrast ...
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The LED lighting market has been performing relatively well compared to the LED TV backlight market. According to Delta, the sweet spot for LED lighting prices will be reached around the second half of 2011 to 2012. Delta expects LED light ...
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Taiwan-based LED firms have been eager to enter China's LED market. Through cooperation, Genesis Photonics and Ledtech both signed strategic alliance agreement with China-based Potevio. Taiwan-based LED packaging house Everlight also have ...
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Erlanger, Kentucky – UV disinfection specialist Aquionics has signed a Joint Development Agreement with LED expert Dot Metrics Technologies (Charlotte, N. C. ) to develop a new line of UV-LED disinfection products. The agreement ...
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Taiwan-based high-power LED lighting firm, Aeon Lighting Technology, has announced cooperation with US-based Cree Lighting to secure supplies of LED chips. Aeon will adopt Cree's latest MT-G LED chips and has already obtained orders from ...
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Recently, Bridgelux is announced to receive $60 million in venture capital -- funding ,aiming to bolster the East Bay cleantech company's quest to develop cheaper LED. According to the company, silicon-based production could slash the cost ...
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LG Innotek has installed over 10,000 LED luminaires throughout its LED manufacturing complex in Paju, Korea. Korean-based LG Innotek, a vertically-integrated manufacturer of LEDs for displays and lighting, claims it has built the ...
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Night-time view of LG Innotek's Paju LED manufacturing plant, which has adopted LEDs for all its lighting needs. LG Innotek has installed over 10, 000 LED luminaires throughout its LED manufacturing complex in Paju, Korea. ...
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A Japanese research team has uncovered large reserves of rare earths in the floor of the Pacific Ocean in a discovery that could have large implications for the supply chain in the lighting industry. Until now the messy business of mining ...
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The LED industry has no accepted protocol for measuring and characterizing luminaire lifetime, but a new guideline from SSL Quality Advocates considers the key issues. A DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Quality Advocates working group, a ...
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Advanced RenewableEnergy Company (ARC Energy), specializing in innovative c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the Led solid-state Lighting, has announced to ship its 100th CHES Furnace, which is highly automated ...
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LED inside, the LED research division of TrendForce, estimates that LED chip supply volume in 2011 is about 100 billion units and demand volume is around 89 billion units; an oversupply ratio reaches 12%. In addition, after LED chip makers' ...
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Rubicon Technology is beginning volume production of 6-inch and 8-inch sapphire wafers at its state-of-the-art facility in Penang, Malaysia, while GT Solar has invested $27 million to triple its sapphire production capacity in Salem, Mass. ...
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