U.S. manufacturer Veeco and German company Aixtron that have long possessed China’s LED epitaxal wafer MOCVD market, will be facing “war declarations” issued by Chinese manufacturers, according to a report by Chinese ...
Tags: MOCVD Equipment, Lighting
Embattled Taiwanese LED packager Everlight and Japanese manufacturer Nichia both published press releases on Nov. 6, 2013 regarding their latest YAG patent dispute in China. The two companies ongoing patent wars has rekindled LED industry ...
Tags: LED Manufacturers, Lighting
Shenzhen Refond Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. announced on November 13th that the Refond joint venture proposal with TCL and Yu Star Enterprise was passed during the second annual board of directors 5th deliberation meeting held on July 16th, ...
Chinese LED chip manufacturer HC Semitek announced recently, the company received RMB 6 Million (US$ 990,000) MOCVD subsidy from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The subsidy that was recently approved by ...
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A recent report by Chinese-language newspaper Commercial Times noted a new phenomenon of Chinese companies headhunting talent in Taiwan's LED industry. Three years ago, Chinese LED manufacturer San’an Optoelectronics uprooted a large ...
Tags: LED Talents, Lighting
GT Advanced Technology (GTAT) announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire substrate materials for US $578 million (NT $17 billion). Feeling the effect, Chinese sapphire substrate ...
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The gradual initiation of the lighting market trend remains the same. With LED prices overall falling and rising consumer recognition, LED lighting penetration rates are expected to further increase. Backlight market orders have slid as ...
Tags: LED Industry, Lighting
By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
Tags: FinFETs III-V CMOS, Electrical, Electronics
San’an Optoelectronics revealed their 3Q financial report on October 30th that accumulated revenue from Jan.–Sept. reached RMB 2.63 billion (US $432 million), yOy growth of 11.86 percent. Mainly due to large increases in net ...
Equipment demand for the production of LCD panels is unlikely to pick up in the short term, as an oversupplied market is discouraging panel makers from expanding capacity and making major equipment upgrades, according to sources at LCD ...
Tags: LCD Panels, LCD Equipment
Buoyed by the success of its Compact 21 range of research systems, at the recent North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference (NAMBE 2013) in Banff, Canada (5-11 October) Riber S.A. of Bezons, France launched the Compact 21 DZ 3"-wafer ...
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Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA has introduced a physics-based model for its opto model library that quickly and accurately solves the challenges posed by signal distortion in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers ...
China-based chip maker San'an Optoelectronics Co Ltd is projected to take the lead in gallium nitride (GaN) LED wafer capacity by the end of 2014, overtaking current leader Epistar Corp of Taiwan, according to market research firm IHS Inc. ...
Tags: LEDs, Electrical, Electronics, Optoelectronics
The largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics plans to expand production capacity by adding as many as 100 MOCVD sets in 2014, company president Lin Ke-chuang said at LEDforum Taipei 2013 on October 16. ...
Pricing trends have improved in the Chinese LED industry, compared to the same period last year, said San’an Optoelectronics Fujian Province Vice President Simon Lin at LEDforum Taipei 2013. San’an Opto electronics 4Q13 revenue ...
Tags: San'an Opto, MOCVD Equipment