In 2011, LED supply exceeded demand by 30% due to poor LED TV sales and slow growth in LED lighting. However, this gap is closing in 2012 due to recovering backlight demand and increasing demand for lighting. DisplaySearch expects that the ...
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China's LED industry is expected to face tough eliminations in 2012 as the price of LED products dropped drastically in 2011. The China government is determined to help domestic LED firms weather the storm by increasing cooperation among ...
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Veeco Instruments has announced lower revenues in the last quarter of 2011 despite new tool orders from Taiwan and Korea. Aixtron has partnered with a financial firm to provide leasing options on MOCVD equipment. Aixtron offers MOCVD ...
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Digitimes Research predicts the growth of high-brightness LEDs in 2012 to reach 13.4% with an output value of US$10.1 billion. However, MOCVD demand will shrink to 200 units in 2012. The combined share of high-brightness LEDs in the Japan, ...
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Minsheng Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (MSFL), China’s main non-banking financial institution, and AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA; NASDAQ: AIXG), a leading supplier of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced a ...
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Minsheng Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (MSFL), China’s main non-banking financial institution, and AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA; NASDAQ: AIXG), a leading supplier of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced a ...
AZZURRO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Erwin WOLF visited Taiwan and announced a variety of new advances in the GaN on Si. programs run by the company. On his trip AZZURRO's VP of Operations Dr. Markus SICKMOELLER and VP Marketing and Sales ...
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Philips' acquisition of Indal WRTL is complete, revenues have fallen for LED producers in Taiwan, High Tech Lights has moved, Dialight has doubled its LED-lighting revenues, Albermarle has formed a new metal-organics business unit, and ...
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The number of LED chips used in LED TVs has been decreasing. Industry sources believe LED TVs will only require 10-12 units of high-power LED chips in the future. Hence global demand of MOCVD equipment will likely decrease from 5,000 to ...
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TV maker Konka has decided to terminate its partnership with Epistar in a joint venture running an epitaxy plant in Changzhou, China. But Epistar indicated that the exist of the China-based partner will not affect the operations of the ...
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Barclays Capital forecasts 2012 as a "subdued year" for the light-emitting diode (LED) industry, plagued by overcapacity, average selling price (ASP) pressures, and only gradual growth in LED lighting demand. Metal organic chemical vapor ...
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Market research firm, Semi, forecasts that spending for LED manufacturing equipment will decline 18 percent in 2012 following a massive 36 percent increase in equipment spending in 2011. At the same time, Semi projects that worldwide LED ...
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Market research firm, Semi, forecasts that spending for LED manufacturing equipment will decline 18 percent in 2012 following a massive 36 percent increase in equipment spending in 2011. At the same time, Semi projects that worldwide LED ...
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Following several years of rapid capacity expansion and strong government incentives, a 40% decline in worldwide MOCVD purchases in 2012 will reduce overall LED equipment spending for the first time in over five years, according to SEMI. ...
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The global production capacity of LED epitaxial wafers and chips exceeded the market demand in 2011 and the situation is expected to continue in 2012, according to president M.J. Chou for Taiwan-based Epistar. Following South Korea-based ...
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