LED package manufacturer Everlight and Japan’s largest LED manufacturer Nichia initiated patent wars in Japan, Taiwan, Germany, U.S. and other countries for the past decade, reported Chinese-language magazine Money Weekly. Nichia is ...
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LEd Display industry in China started in the early 1990s. And it developed rapidly and steadily all the time. Since entering the 21st century, it made growth of 15-20% every year. In 2014, China’s LED display industry maintained ...
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The Cruise’s popularity as a vacation option is ever-increasing. The trend has led to bigger and better ships, regularly reaching mammoth proportions to ferry eager tourists to paradise and back. Bigger ships mean bigger ports, ...
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Appropriately themed “Envision the future of lights” after its mission, the 20th edition of the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition had participants sharing inspirational ideas and innovative technologies. Dialogue of ...
Osram continued to show a good profit performance in the third quarter of fiscal 2015. EBITA1 excluding special items rose 24% from a year earlier to EUR 129 million (US$ 142.51 million) , translating into a margin of 9.5%. The development ...
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Moderate economic growth in 2015 has become the “new norm” for the stabilizing Chinese economy. With the Chinese government introducing industry restructures, explosive economic growth has become history. Gone are the good days ...
Taiwanese copper and electronic cable manufacturer Walsin Lihwa (Walsin) board has decided to sell its LED subsidiary Xian Walsin Technology in China’s assets for RMB 166 million (US $26.72 million) to Shangxi Electronic Information ...
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A small Chinese LED manufacturer Zhongshan Sover Lighting Company (Sover) patent infringement plaintiff filed against four leading industry players in China has been compared to as the battle between an ant and the elephant. Many company ...
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) announced today that it has shipped the 50th TurboDisc® EPIK™700 GaN Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System reactor since its introduction ten months ago. After its launch in ...
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Recent patent disputes between Japanese LED manufacturer Nichia and Taiwanese counterpart Everlight has raged on, with new disputes every now and then. Will the two sides ever reach a settlement? And how will these patent issues affect the ...
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Opple Lighting, which is in the process of applying IPOs in China, has seen its revenues reach RMB 3.9 billion (US $630 million) in 2014, according to a report by Chinese-language media The Time Weekly. The lighting industry is entering a ...
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AIXTRON, a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced that Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei has ordered an AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead system (CCS) for pilot production of ...
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Orion Energy Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient lighting platforms, today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 first quarter ended June 30, 2015, highlighted by strong LED sales and ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on a GATEWAY demonstration, in which maintenance and energy costs were significantly reduced while retaining the quality of light when LED modules replaced 87 halogen lamps in existing ...
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German lighting giant Osram announced it will be spinning off its general lighting business including general LED lighting into an independent company. Osram Lamp According to the company statement: “This business includes the ...
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