At its latest board meeting,Tokyo-based chemical manufacturer Showa Denko K.K.(SDK)has decided to split off and transfer its gallium nitride(GaN)LED epitaxial wafer and chip production business to its subsidiary TS Opto Co Ltd(which was ...
Tags: SDK, GaN LEDs, Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd, chemical manufacture, TS Opto
Strategies Unlimited is forecasting a flat LED lighting market for 2012 relative to 2011, with growth in retail and industrial/commercial lighting offset by contraction in retrofit lamps, as reported by VRINDA BHANDARKAR, ...
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Companies that are developing LED lighting products need to have an awareness of the wider patent landscape to help them develop,protect and exploit their own intellectual property to its fullest,as JACKIE MAGUIRE and DAVID SEGAL explain. ...
Q2 2012 orders for MOCVD tools remained flattish with the trough-like Q1 numbers, according to Barclays Capital Inc. analysts confirmed at SEMICON West. Veeco and Aixtron confirm that activity is picking up into H2 2012. Sub-component ...
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Toyoda Gosei has undergone a hard time in the first half of 2011, but its revenue firmed up till second half, to 4th quarter was fully restored. And yet its Q1 revenue of 2012 also keeps the very successful performance just like Q4 last ...
South Korea- and Japan-based LED firms reported first-half 2012 financial results. Samsung Electronics, having consolidated its LED supply chain and resources, predicts 2012 total revenues of the LED businesses to be KRW2.5 trillion (US$2.2 ...
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Despite many uncertainties in the LED industry in second-half 2012, South Korea-based LED firm Seoul Semiconductor and upstream LED chip subsidiary Seoul Optodevice Company (SOC) have been optimistic about third-quarter 2012 performances. ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED TV
The year 2010 was the springtime for LED industry, but 2011 was the wintertime. For most manufacturers, the cold winter may last until 2013 or 2014. Since 2009, the notebook computer, monitor and TV have started to adopt LED backlight unit ...
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Of 46 Chinese LED chip projects planned in 2009-2010, just 20 put into production Reportlinker has made available a new market research report ‘Global and China LED Industry Report, 2011-2012’ from China Research and ...
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Research and Markets has added a new report titled "Global LED Chips Market 2011-2015" to its portfolio. Analysts from TechNavio have predicted that the global LED vchips market would grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.6% ...
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Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets estimates that the total market value of LED phosphors used in lighting applications will grow from about $525 million in 2012 to a value of over $730 million by 2015 and to over $1.6 billion by the end of ...
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Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets estimates that the total market value of LED phosphors used in lighting applications will grow from about $525 million in 2012 to a value of over $730 million by 2015 and to over $1.6 billion by the end of ...
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LED lighting prices are expected to fall by 30% per year, with luminous efficacy approaching 200 lm/W by 2014. Many countries have also identified 2015 as a key milestone in their development of lighting policies, meaning that 2014 is ...
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Japan-based LED makers Toyoda Gosei and Showa Denko are forming a joint venture to address the market for high-end LED chip applications. Two Japan-based LED makers, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. and Showa Denko Electronics K.K. (SDK), have ...
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Japanese company, Showa Denko K. K. (SDK) reports that it plans to form a joint venture with Toyoda Gosei for the production and sale of GaN LEDs. Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to split its business in gallium-nitride (GaN)-based blue ...
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