Due to significant expansion in manufacturing capacity, falling prices, environmental concerns and government incentives, the LED lighting market will double from 16 million units in 2012 to 33 million in 2013 and then nearly triple by ...
Tags: Lighting market, Electrical, Electronics, LED
Demand for LED lighting is growing rapidly thanks to significant expansion in manufacturing capacity, falling prices, environmental concerns, and government incentives. According to DisplaySearch, this new opportunity for LED lighting ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
MOVCD vendors US-based Veeco Instruments and Germany-based Aixtron SE have lowered quotes in the China market from about US$2 million to about US$1.4 million for a single-wafer MOCVD set and by 30-40% for a multi-wafer model mainly because ...
Tags: LED makers, LED production, LED
Global MOCVD equipment shipments in 2013 are expected to total 148 units, representing an on-year decrease of 46%. According to Digitimes Research, this is because LED chipmakers have sufficient capacity and the number of LED chips used ...
Tags: MOCVD Shipments, LED chips
Taiwan-based tier-two LED chipmaker Tyntek has confirmed that its upstream blue epitaxial wafer firm Alpha Plus Epi has suspended production. Rumors regarding the production suspension of Alpha Plus Epi have been circulating in the market ...
LED firm Formosa Epitaxy plans to install 12-13 sets of MOCVD equipment before the end of first-quarter 2013 and expects production to begin in the second quarter. Monthly capacity at the firm's Taiwan plant is likely to increase by 50,000 ...
Tags: Formosa Epitaxy, LED, MOCVD equipment
Due to rising demand for LED products from the handsets and lighting sectors, market research institutes predict the global LED market output value will reach US$12.4 billion in 2013, representing an on-year growth of 12%. However, the ...
Tags: LED products, LED lighting products, LED light sources
Veeco has received an order for multi- and single-chamber TurboDisc® MOCVD Systems, including the new MaxBright® M™, from KaiStar Lighting Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Epistar Corporation and Shenzhen Kaifa Technology ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA Inc has received an order for multi- and single-chamber TurboDisc metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems, including the new ...
Tags: LED production, LED, Lighting
Various countries have banned the use of incandescent light bulbs, paving the way for LED lighting to shine. However, due to numerous newcomers in China taking up massive capacity expansion, the LED market has been in severe oversupply, ...
Tags: 2013, Opportunities, Risks, LED Lighting
LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy plans to increase its total number of MOCVD equipment in Taiwan and China mainland to 104 by the end of the first quarter in 2013 due to an optimistic outlook about market demand. Demand in the LED backlight ...
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Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting and other clean energy markets, has appointed Dr. Philip C.S. Yin ...
Tags: ARC Energy, China, LED, Dr.Philip C.S.Yin
LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
After 2014, China will boast the world's largest LED epitaxy and chip production capacity base. However, China LED fabs are mainly concentrated on blue/green GaN LED manufacturing, and most of the capacity focuses on small and medium size ...
Tags: China LED
After experiencing a boon in 2010, the weak LED market reaction in 2011 did not allow the global LED manufacturing production to grow as expected. Capacity utilization reached a low due to the fast capacity expansion and slower market ...
Tags: LED market, china LED