Epistar Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC ) held Board of Directors’ meetings today and approved a sale of TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) shares. Epistar will acquire all shares of TSMC SSL held by TSMC and ...
The LED lighting market in Japan will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.73% over the period 2014-2019, forecasts Technavio’s report ‘LED Lighting Market in Japan 2015-2019’, which divides the market into ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Lights
Corsair has demonstrated a new addition to the drivers for its RGB backlit gaming keyboards, making them able to react to feedback from games. The idea is the keyboard could use the 16.5million colours of each key to show things like your ...
Tags: Corsairm, Backlighting, Consumer Electronics
There will be an estimated 186.017 billion high-brightness LED chips shipped globally in 2015, increasing on year by 32.6%, and the corresponding production value will grow much less by 7.5% to US$13.699 billion due to continued drops in ...
Tags: LED chips, LED lighting
LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology has seen booming orders for LED lighting from the US and Europe with shipments scheduled through March 2015, the company said. Thus, Unity Opto is expected to ship 30-40 million LED light ...
Tags: LED Light, LED backlighting, Lights
Global LED backlighting production value will drop about 10% in 2015 as production value for TV and tablet applications continue to fall, according to Taiwan-based LED makers. Smartphone applications will account for more than 30% of ...
Tags: LED Backlighting, LED Lights
The demand for LED chipsets, primarily for the LED lighting market, is forecast to increase substantially through 2018. According to DisplaySearch, measured in standard units (500 by 500 micron chip size), demand for LED chipsets are ...
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Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics will invest NT$10.0 billion (US$317 million) to expand its LED packaging capacity by 25% from the level at the end of 2014 in 2015-2017, according to company chairman Robert Yeh. Everlight may further ...
For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
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LED Epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar expects its consolidated revenues for December to increase significantly on month mainly due to orders from China-based LCD TV vendors with urgent shipments to meet peak demand before the 2015 ...
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LED packaging service provider Harvatek will cooperate with affiliated equipment maker YoungTek Electronics to adopt the latter's automation equipment to start automated production of LED light bulbs for reducing production cost in 2015, ...
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LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan says that EDN (Electronic Design News) has named its newest line of white chip-scale packages, the ReadyMount Enhanced CSP (EC) series, as one of the ‘Hot 100 Products of ...
Tags: LED chip, phosphor technology, Electrical
Taiwan LED maker Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) has reported its revenues during the third quarter of 2014 reached NT$1.79 billion (US$57.28 million), up 5.86% on quarter, with a gross profit margin of 12.43%, down 7.54pp on ...
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Global in 2015 will double those in 2014, but the corresponding production value will increase only 30% due to estimated price drops of 30-35%, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Europe will account for 23% of the global LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, shipments, Lights
Due to weak demand for LED backlighting and lighting, Taiwan-based LED packaging service providers are expected to see fourth-quarter 2014 consolidated revenues decrease 10% sequentially on average, but will see significant sequential ...
Tags: LED Packaging, Lighting