Raging price wars in the LED industry urged many manufacturers to veer away from low entry level products, and invest their resources in more profitable niche markets. Some of these markets include IR LED, UV LED, automotive lighting, grow ...
Tags: LED industry, IR LED, UV LED
In December 2014, the Chinese government announced it would no longer be encouraging local governments to issue financial subsidies to LED manufacturers. The announcement which could have brought a sigh of relief to foreign competitors, had ...
Tags: LED Subsidies, LED industry
The LED components market in Japan is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3% during 2014-2019, according to the report 'LED Components Market in Japan 2015-2019' from market research firm Technavio. The Asia-Pacific region ...
Tags: LED market, Lighting market
Technology engineering & licensing firm ALLOS Semiconductors GmbH of Dresden, Germany have concluded its joint project to establish its mature 150 and 200mm gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology at Epistar Corp of Hsinchu ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Azzurro GaN-on-Si, Epistar LEDs
Cree and Epistar have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for LED chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and LED bulb markets. Cree and Epistar both hold broad and substantial LED chip patent portfolios that ...
Tags: LED chip, LED lighting
For full-year fiscal 2015 (ended 28 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.63bn, down just 1% on fiscal 2014's record $1.65bn. Specifically, revenue for Lighting Products (mainly LED lighting systems and bulbs) grew ...
Tags: LED Product, LED chips
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA and Taiwan's Epistar Corp (the world's largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for LED chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and ...
Tags: LED chips, LED lighting
EPISTAR keeps building innovating products and technologies and continues to bolster its global IP position. In addition, EPISTAR strives to strengthen the value of its Co-activation Service. As the world continues to push for energy ...
LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, projects the infrared (IR) LED market value for surveillance application during 2014 reached US$94 million in its latest 2Q15 Gold Member Report - 2015 Global LED Supply and Demand Market. This recently ...
Tags: IR LED, Surveillance cameras
The infrared (IR) LED market for surveillance applications will grow from $94m in 2014 to $120m in 2015, according to '2Q15 Gold Member Report - 2015 Global LED Supply and Demand Market' from LEDinside (a division of TrendForce). ...
GaN-on-GaN technology can be used to grow blue-light laser as a source of lighting with luminous efficiency of 220lm/W, said 2014 Nobel laureate in physics Shuji Nakamura in a speech given inTaipei recently. Nakamura, currently a ...
The LED industry is now fully embracing the fast-growing lighting market as (based on revenues) LED lighting has become the largest sector among LED applications, surpassing LCD backlighting in 2014, and is expected to be the major driver ...
Tags: LEDs MOCVD, LED Chip
Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some Chinese LED companies, 220 gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactors will be installed in 2015, according to the latest data from the IHS LED ...
Tags: GaN MOCVD LEDs Epistar Sanan OptoElectronics, LED companies, Electronics
Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some China-based LED companies, IHS forecasts that 220 gallium nitride (GaN) reactors will be installed in 2015. This new capacity expansion is slightly different from what happened several ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD Companies, Lights
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has developed silicon substrate applications for integrating power drivers on single-chip devices, with volumes of such devices being 75% smaller than those of conventional models, and the company ...
Tags: LED epitaxial wafer, Lights