Cleveland, the most populous city in Ohio, U.S. will be rolling out a major streetlight upgrade, according to a report by Associated Press (AP). According to the Cleveland.com report, limited tariffs have blocked municipalities from ...
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Faced with the chaotic price wars in LED market, Edison Opto has been striving to introduce more high efficiency products in order to strengthen its market position. One of its new advantaged products is PLCC 2835 HE Series. It features ...
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Change is Rapidly Descending Upon the Lighting Industry LED lamps (lightbulbs) are proving to be a disruptive catalyst creating a very different dynamic in the long established lamp distribution channel. While the transition to LED ...
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Recent patent disputes between Japanese LED manufacturer Nichia and Taiwanese counterpart Everlight has raged on, with new disputes every now and then. Will the two sides ever reach a settlement? And how will these patent issues affect the ...
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Light Polymers is introducing the world's first liquid-crystal-based remote phosphor flexible film. In LED lighting, a remote phosphor film moves the blue-to-white-light converting phosphor material from the LED itself to the substrate that ...
Chinese LED enterprises are spending a fortune in acquiring foreign manufacturers in 2015. A couple of examples include Shenzhen Kaifa Technology (Kaifa) recent acquisition of U.S. LED manufacturer Bridgelux, Shanghai Felio Acoustics ...
Rubicon Technology (Rubicon), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015 and announced the signing of ...
German lighting giant Osram announced it will be spinning off its general lighting business including general LED lighting into an independent company. Osram Lamp According to the company statement: “This business includes the ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which makes chips for the communications, security, aerospace and industrial markets) has been informed that its reiterated proposal to acquire PMC-Sierra Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (which provides ...
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U.S. LED manufacturer TCP International Holding (TCP) ex-CEO Ellis Yan has settled a lawsuit brought up by former lawyer Laura Hauser, for US $3.9 million, according to a Cleveland.com report. In February 2015, Hauser filed a plaintiff ...
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Top Taiwanese LED manufacturers Everlight and Epistar revenues for second quarter of 2015 were impacted by trending low LED prices on the market, according to a China Times report. Even though Epistar revenues made a turnaround in second ...
Unity Opto’s consolidated revenue in July dropped 37.4% YoY to NT $500 million (US $15.79 million), according to a UDN report. Compared to June, revenues in July were down 16.6%, the company stated. Low LED bulb prices in the ...
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An India startup company headed by Rohan Desle has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund optical illusion LED bulbs. The warm white LED bulbs have a lifetime of 50,000 hours and there are seven models that backers can choose from ...
Cree, a market leader in LED lighting, announced revenue of US $382 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, ended June 28, 2015. This represents a 12% decrease compared to revenue of $436 million reported for the fourth quarter of ...
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According to the data compiled by NPD, U.S. watch sales fell to a seven-year low in June 2015. Retailers sold $375 million timepieces during June, 11% less than one year ago. It is the worst decline since 2008, unit sales dropped 14 %. ...
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