Global LED shipments in 2016 will increase 20-30% on year in volume and about 5% in value, Nichia's chief legal and IP officer Katsuyuki Akutagawa said at a press event in Taipei on November 25. Nichia finished development of direct ...
Tags: LED Shipment, LED backlighting
At the 2015 Elektra Awards ceremony at The Lancaster Hotel in London on 24 November, Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, Suffolk UK, a producer of thermal management technology, has won the LED Lighting Product of the Year award (beating ...
The world’s leading exhibition & conference for LED/OLED technologies and lighting fixtures, LIGHTING JAPAN will take place from January 13 [Wed] to 15[Fri], 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight. Consists of two specialized shows, it covers all ...
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One year ago, Seoul Semiconductor filed a patent infringement lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court asserting that Craig’s sales of LED backlighting unit products infringed five of Seoul’s patents. On July 23, 2015, the court ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, LED chips, LED products
Chinese LED manufacturer Mason Technologies intends to acquire OML Technology for RMB 30 million (US $4.8 million). According to Mason Technologies, about RMB 28.2 million will be used to increase capital, while RMB 27.1 million will be ...
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Chinese LED manufacturer Honglitronic recently announced the company will release 300 million non-public offering shares to raise RMB 725 million (US $116 million). The purposes of this round of financing is mainly for the construction of ...
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Forest Lighting (also know as MLS) plans to non-public issue stocks 6.1 million shares at RMB 38.11 (US$ 6) per share. The offering will raise about RMB 2.3 billion and will be used to fund several initiatives, including Xiaolan SMD LED ...
Tags: MLS, LED packaging, LED lightings
Soaring LED lighting penetration rates, followed by the maturation of LED lighting technology. Although, market demands have soared, LED lighting demand growth in mature markets have eased, due to intense pricing competitions. As a result, ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED package, EVE Lighting
China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker San'an Optoelectronics saw revenues of CNY3.602 billion (US$576 million) and net profit of CNY1.447 billion for January-September 2015 increase 3.55% and 37.82% respectively on year, while ...
On Sep. 10, MLS announced that the company will spend RMB$ 180 million (US$ 278.2 million) to purchase stock in Kaistar Lighting with private fund, acquiring 10.91% of Kaistar’s shares. Kaistar Lighting is a joint venture ...
Prices for 2835 LED devices, currently the mainstream specification among China-based LED packaging service providers, have dropped 50-60% so far in 2015 due to overcapacity, according to Taiwan-based LED makers. Many China-based LED ...
Tags: LED devices, LED packaging, LED chips
Twenty three LED manufacturers have released their financial results as of Aug. 25, 2015. A lot of analysis has been done to understand net profit and sales revenue. LEDinside focus on the most discussed “price war” and have ...
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Global LED chip demand and supply condition is gradually reaching an equilibrium, and easing the industry’s oversupply situation, according to a Qianjia.com report that quoted an electronic component industry report by UBS. Lighting ...
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Packaging firm Litecool has opened a clean room facility in the UK, for conducting research on LED packaging technologies, resulting in in-house transition of conception into pre-production. The new unit, armed with the equipment for ...
Tags: LED Packaging, LED arrays
A new distribution franchise has been awarded to UK specialist electronic components distributor, Advanced Power Components (APC); by leading LED manufacturer, ProLight Opto Technology Corporation (ProLight). Founded in October 2004, ...