Epistar, a Taiwan-based LED chip maker, will establish a joint venture maker of inexpensive high-performance LED lighting products in Kunshan, eastern China, with Innotek Photoelectronic Technology, a Taiwan-based packager of LED chips for ...
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The leading global LED maker Nichia has remained low-key for many years, but with increasing opportunities in LED lighting, Nichia's layout strategies for attracting customers are changing. Recently, Nichia held a technical seminar in ...
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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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Epistar, a Taiwan-based maker of LED chips, will distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$1.1 for its 2011 operation, 96.43% in excess of the corresponding net earnings per share of NT$0.56, according to the company. The cash dividend per ...
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Prices for 10W LED light bulbs that are meant to replace 60W incandescent bulbs are expected to drop from over NT$500 (US$16.9) currently to below NT$300 at the end of 2012, according to Lee Biing-jye, chairman of Taiwan-based LED epitaxial ...
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Taiwan-based makers of sapphire wafers suffered operating losses in 2011 due to stagnant demand for LED epitaxial wafers and chips, but are likely to turn profitable in the second quarter of 2012 as global demand for LED chips used for ...
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With Mo-Cu R670, “PLANSEE High Performance Materials” has developed a new molybdenum-copper composite material for semiconductor wafer substrates. The high thermal conductivity of MoCu R670 ensures optimized heat dissipation in ...
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With Mo-Cu R670, “PLANSEE High Performance Materials” has developed a new molybdenum-copper composite material for semiconductor wafer substrates. The high thermal conductivity of MoCu R670 ensures optimized heat dissipation in ...
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Edison Opto, a Taiwan-based packaging house of high-power LED chips for lighting, aims to maintain gross margin at 15-20% for 2012, despite pressure from declining product prices, according to the company. As gross margins for LDMS ...
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The cost narrowing between direct-lit LED TVs and CCFL-backlit TVs may face a roadblock, said industry sources. However, firms such as Samsung Electronics, China-based TCL, and North America-based brand Vizio all plan to introduce ...
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LED lighting penetration rate is expected to reach double digit figures in 2012. Compared with a penetration rate of 6-7% in 2011, the large increase in forecast is due to increasing popularity of LED lighting in developed countries. ...
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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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LED CHINA 2012 has grandly opened at the China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B in Guangzhou on 20th February. There are near 1,100 exhibitors in 5 specialized sections occupying 70,000 square metres in exhibition space. And a ...
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Samsung LED, LG Innotek, Seoul Semiconductors, and other South Korea-based makers together occupied 26% of the global production value for LED packaging in 2011, higher than the 19% share of Taiwan-based fellow makers, according to ...
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