Leading LED chip manufacturer Epistar’s has raised the number of job cuts from the previously announced 65 to about 180, reported UDN. Job cuts at the company’s factories in northern Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park will ...
Tags: Epistar, business strategy, layoff
Leading U.S. LED manufacturer Cree announced earlier this month, it will be rebranding its power and RF business as Wolfspeed. In an exclusive interview with LEDinside analyst and assistant manager Joanne Wu, Cree co-founder and CTO John ...
Tags: Cree, Wolfspeed, RF and power business, Market Branding
The average monthly price of sapphire has fallen by more than 30% year on year this September, according to the latest 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. This decline is the result of ...
The LED market has shown mixed results in different global regions recently. Stagnant LED shipment growth, and plunging sapphire substrate prices have brought related manufacturers operations under the market lime light. Market sources ...
Tags: sapphire industry, restructure, LED market
The LED luminaire that uses optical illusion to trick your brain is here to deceive more minds again. Having created the first model of Bulbing that was successfully backed within three days on Kickstarter, Israel’s Studio Cheha ...
Tags: LED Luminaires, Bulbing, Optical Illusion
Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Yang Hwa Technology owner Shih-Hsiung Chan was detained by police on Sept. 11, 2015 for suspected accounting fraud and market manipulation, according to a report by China Times. In mid-June, Chan was ...
Tags: insider trading, Yang Hwa Technology, market manipulation
Japanese company Spread plans to construct a large fully automated vegetable factory capable of producing 30,000 heads of lettuce per day, according to a recent company statement. The Kyoto based company will start constructions on the ...
Tags: LED grow lights, Spread, vegetable factory
For the fourth consecutive year, the commercial coatings group of PPG Industries' automotive refinish business will exhibit its extensive line of products at the annual U.S. Diesel Truckin' Nationals & Motorsports Spectacular, to be held ...
Trade groups representing Europe's sporting goods and leisure industries took advantage of the first European Week of Sport to inaugurate a new lobbying office in Brussels Thursday. Located at 43 Avenue des Arts, the new The House of ...
Tags: sporting goods, leisure industries, Brussels
Don’t be fooled by the pitch that touts shortage as a reason for investors to plough dollars into the diamond mining sector. In fact, like many other commodities in the world today, the diamond industry is also drowning in a supply ...
Tags: Diamond Supply, diamond mining
Japanese car maker Nissan has announced plan to invest £100m into its Sunderland plant to manufacture the company’s next generation Juke crossover car. The plant began operations in 1986 and since then 8 million vehicles ...
Tags: Crossover Car, Nissan
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 ...
Tags: LED chips, LED luminaires, LED package
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is providing $100 prepaid debit cards to recalled vehicle owners in the US to help them get their cars and trucks with potential safety issues repaired. The incentives have been said to raise the completion ...
Tags: Fiat Chrysler, Recalled Vehicles
India has become the fastest growing photovoltaic (PV) market and replaced the U.K. as one of the top three exports markets for Chinese modules, found EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce. Based on EnergyTrend’s latest report, the ...
Tags: PV market, solar cell
Around the world, people are seeing the LED streetlights that their city is installing, and many don’t like it. In this situation, there are two possible responses: living for a few decades with light you don’t like, or pushing ...
Tags: LED lamps, LED Lighting, LED streetlights