The LED business unit of LG Innotek has been seeing a low capacity utilization rate, hence Digitimes Research expects its 2012 profit margin to be negative 4-6%. Despite the negative figure, the 2012 profit margin forecast would still be an ...
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Taiwan-based LED firm Unity Opto has reported July consolidated revenues of NT$785 million (US$26.22 million), a record high figure representing an on-month increase of 10.1% and an on-year increase of 51%. According to the firm, ...
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The LED lighting market has been attracting traditional lighting firms to adjust business strategies in order to obtain market shares. The global lighting market output value is estimated at around EUR50-60 billion (US$60.6-72.8 ...
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Commercialization of 4Kx2K high-definition panels in TVs started recently,but industry sources believe that the TVs will still need another 3-5 years to be widely accepted among consumers as ultra-mobile products such as tablets and ...
While the CPU market is growing in single digit percentages,the applications processor market is growing at 40%a year and,by 2015,the value of the markets will match at around$33-34bn,according to Nomura. With ARM-based processors ...
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Motech executives claim the company has been operating at full capacity since 2012.According to Simon Tsuo,chairman of Motech,forecast total solar cell shipments in 2012 are likely to exceed the 10.8GW of 2011. Tsuo indicated current ...
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Epistar said that it is developing eight-inch silicon substrates for producing LEDs used in lighting applications, with mass production slated in 2014. Large-sized silicon substrates will help lower production costs and are estimated to be ...
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Uncertainty causes solar firms to expand with caution Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Thursday 24 May 2012]Europe and India are likely to conduct similar investigations as those carried out by the US against China-based solar ...
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Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented phosphors and phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting, today announced the availability of ChromaLit™ Contour. Lighting manufacturers can implement ChromaLit Contour to ...
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Intematix Corporation, a leading innovator of patented phosphors and phosphor components for high-quality LED lighting, today announced the availability of ChromaLit™ Contour. Lighting manufacturers can implement ChromaLit Contour to ...
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Zhaga Consortium is setting a new standard for LED light engine interfaces, which will create specifications aimed at ensuring the interchangeability of LED light sources from different manufacturers Epistar president Biing Jye Lee stated ...
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As production of sapphire wafers by China-based makers will gradually increase, prices for the product in the second quarter of 2012 are expected to remain at current levels, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Taiwan-based makers have ...
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Bridgelux, a US-based maker of LED expitaxial wafers and chips of which Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is shareholder, will use 8-inch silicon wafers and process (GaN-on-Si) to produce LED epitaxial wafers, with ...
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While Samsung Electronics has started a price war for its LED lighting products, Taiwan-based LED fellow makers have the competitive advantage of lower production costs, according to chairman Robert Yeh for Taiwan-based maker Everlight ...
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The subsidy program for upstream LED firms in China ended in 2011. There are many LED firms in China, but less than 20 of them have economies of scale and capacity of more than 20 MOCVD tools. To help the LED industry, the China government ...
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