Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) is to issue 174.612 million new shares (worth NT$10 each, totalling NT$1746.12m) to acquire fellow Taiwanese LED epiwafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc ...
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LatticePower Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to be the first company to commercialize GaN-on-silicon LED lighting, has announced an $80m initial round of Series D equity financing led by Asia Pacific Resources Development Investment ...
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Taiwan-based vertically-integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.355 billion (US$45 million) for June, the highest monthly figure ever with growth of 7.35% on month and of 5.02% on year. Lextar had ...
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Samsung C&T's subsidiary in Taiwan began selling crystalline silicon wafers, conductive pastes, components and materials used in making solar cells and modules in the local market in the second quarter of 2014, according to industry ...
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Taiwan-based LED maker Epistar announced a merger with Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) on June 30, 2014, with the former aiming to fully acquire the latter and become the surviving company. Epistar explained that the merger is meant to improve its ...
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Taiwan-based polycrystalline silicon solar cell makers, due to increasing price competition from China-based makers, plan to increase or step into production of monocrystalline models, which are relatively profitable, according to PV ...
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The China government has imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs on solar-grade polysilicon imported from the US, Europe and South Korea, but much of the US-produced polysilicon has been imported through export processing zones ...
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Taiwan-based LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology has invested NT$1.23 billion (US$40.8 million) to set up production capacity for LED light bulbs, tubes and lamps and will gradually expand monthly capacity from one million ...
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The European Union (EU), in response to Germany-based SolarWorld AG's complaint that some China-based PV module makers have stealthily offered Europe-based importers prices below EUR0.53 (US$0.72)/W, a floor price set by the EU and the ...
The PC industry has recently started regaining momentum with Intel, AMD as well as Taiwan-based upstream component suppliers aggressively preparing for potential demand in the second half of 2014, according to sources from the upstream ...
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Japan- and South Korea-based PV makers, in an attempt to export in-house-made PV modules to the US market following US imposition of preliminary anti-dumping tariff rates on PV products imported from China and Taiwan, have talked with ...
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In June this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 17.1 percent year on year and by 5.9 percent compared to May to $1.62 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. In ...
Researchers in Taiwan claim to be the first to use bumping technology to create piezoelectric-induced performance enhancement in flip-chip packaged aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Szu-Ping Tsai ...
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) announced on June 17 the withdrawal of FIT certifications for 144 solar plant facilities with capacities totaling 290MW. While there are 288 approved PV projects totaled at 1950MW ...
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China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a Chinese company entering the top 10 global ranking (by revenue) of packaged LED makers for the first time, according to the IHS LED Intelligence Service of ...
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