Spot market prices for polysilicon have risen to US$20/kg currently and some China-based makers, in view of strong demand in the China market, plan to further hike quotes by 10% to US$22/kg after the Lunar New Year (January 31), according ...
Tags: China polysilicon, Strong demand
Taiwan-based AsiaTree Global Technology (AGT) has begun marketing its in-house-developed AT8000 series automated equipment for LED T8 light tubes, and will additionally offer the AT6000 series for LED light bulbs in the second half of 2014, ...
Tags: LED Light, Automation Equipment
Taiwan-based makers have hiked quotes for high energy conversion rate solar-grade wafers to about US$1 per wafer due to tight supplies, according to industry sources. Prices for a high-efficiency solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, Lighting, Solar-grade
The proportion of China's demand for LED chips suplied by China-based makers in 2013 increased to 80%, according to LEDinside. China-based LED chip makers generated production value of US$992 million in 2013, up 16.8% on year, and the ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy expects flip chip LED components for use in lighting and LCD TV backlighting to account for 15-20% of its 2014 consolidated revenues, according to company chairman Frank Chien. Formosa ...
Tags: Flip Chip LED, Lighting
Reshuffling in the LED chip manufacturing industries in Taiwan and China through merger may happen faster than originally expected and larger makers will merge with smaller ones, leaving only two Taiwan-based makers and three China-based ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED packaging
LED packaging house Edison Opto has said it will issue 5-year zero-interest unsecured convertible bonds totaling NT$1 billion (US$33.3 million) to fund capacity expansion for high-power LED and PLCC (plastic leaded chip carrier) components. ...
Tags: Edison Opto, Lighting
China-based smartphone and tablet makers' influence in the IT market has been growing rapidly and according to Digitimes Research's latest figures, among the 950 million smartphones shipped globally in the first half of 2013, about 330 ...
Tags: smartphone, tablet, IT market
While mid-power LED chips account for only a small proportion of LED lighting currently, the proportion will grow fast over the next few years to reach about 50%, Philips Lumileds Lighting CEO Pirre-Yves Lesaicherre said during a Digitimes ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Taiwan- and China-based LED chip makers are expected to lay the emphasis on market share gains over the next two years, instead of profitability which was primarily considered in the past, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for ...
Tags: LED Makers, Epistar
Ubilux Optoelectronics, a LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker based at the Southern Taiwan Science Park, has ceased business operations, according to industry sources. Ubilux's exit is possibly due to pressure of price-cut competition from ...
China-based PV module makers have asked Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers to decrease prices to the same level offered by China-based makers, but the Taiwan makers do not plan to accept mainly because the cost of silver ...
Tags: Solar Cell, PV Module
China-based makers will produce 80,000 tons of polysilicon and 23GWp of crystalline silicon PV modules in 2013, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). China imported 39,000 tons of polysilicon in ...
Tags: silicon PV modules, Lights, Lighting, PV modules
China-based makers will produce 80,000 tons of polysilicon and 23GWp of crystalline silicon PV modules in 2013, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). China imported 39,000 tons of polysilicon in ...
Tags: Polysilicon, PV Modules
The European Union (EU) has reached a consensus with the China government to set an annual quota of 7GWp on PV modules imported from China, but the quota will reportedly also include solar cells, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
Tags: Soar Cells, PV modules