Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Epistar has released their 3Q13 financial results. Feeling the effects of LED for TV backlight applications inventory adjustments in 3Q, consolidated revenue for the quarter reached NT $5.75 billion (US ...
Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, saw its operation in the third quarter of 2013 swing to a small net loss of NT$83.4 million (US$2.8 million) due to a non-operating loss of NT$281 million, according to ...
San’an has recently released their 3Q13 financial report. The first three quarters of the year saw a revenue of RMB 2.63 billion (US $431 million), a YoY growth of 11.86 percent. Gross profit margin was RMB 761 million, a YoY growth ...
Tags: LED Market, Chip
LayTec is proud to announce that Epistar Corp. has qualified LayTec’s in-situ metrology Pyro 400 for its GaN LED production. The LED manufacturer based in Taiwan will not use high accuracy GaN surface temperature sensing with Pyro ...
Tags: GaN LED Production, Lighting
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, says that Epistar Corp (Taiwan's largest LED chipmaker) has qualified the Pyro 400 ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor, photovoltaic applications
Financial reports for first half of 2013 released by several Taiwanese LED manufacturers recently showed Epistar rebounded from losses as subsidy Huga Optotech reached break-even point (BEP) in June. For the first half of 2013, ...
Reshuffling in the LED chip manufacturing industries in Taiwan and China through merger may happen faster than originally expected and larger makers will merge with smaller ones, leaving only two Taiwan-based makers and three China-based ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED packaging
When asked about his views for the LED industry in the next few years, B.J. Lee Epistar chairman said during an interview at LEDforum 2013 that he expects to see steady revenue growth for the company and the continual restructure of the LED ...
Tags: LED industry, Industry Trends
China-based chip maker San'an Optoelectronics Co Ltd is projected to take the lead in gallium nitride (GaN) LED wafer capacity by the end of 2014, overtaking current leader Epistar Corp of Taiwan, according to market research firm IHS Inc. ...
Tags: LEDs, Electrical, Electronics, Optoelectronics
China based LED package company MLS Lighting 2013 performance for packaging components and lighting products was good. The company expects to reach the target of RMB 3 billion (US$ 492 million) for 2013. MLS is actively pursuing discussions ...
Tags: LED Package, Packaging Components
China-based die vendor Sanan is projected to take the lead in GaN LED wafer capacity by the end of 2014, overtaking current leader Epistar of Taiwan, according to IHS. While Epistar is forecast to continue its spot at the pinnacle in 2013 ...
Tags: GaN LED Wafer, Lighting
Some Taiwanese LED manufacturers were affected by decreased backlight shipments, which lead to a clear drop in September revenues, according to LEDinside, a green energy research subsidiary of Trendforce. Korean manufacturers still have ...
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LED chip packaging house Everlight Electronics had September 2013 consolidated revenues of NT$2.413 billion (US$80.7 million) hitting a monthly record for the third consecutive time, while LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar saw ...
Tags: LED chip packaging, Lighting
Chinese LED manufacturer San’an Optoelectronic Co. (San’an) has been picking up its pace in internationalization and deployment of business strategies this year. In the LED chip field, the company has become a top international ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have used nanopyramid nitride semiconductor structures to explore long-wavelength green, olivine and amber light-emitting diode (LED) structures [Shih-Pang Chang, Optics Express, Vol. 21, p23030, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, Electronics