LED industry chain can be divided into five parts. First, the raw materials. Second, LED upstream industries, including epitaxial materials and chip manufacturing. Third, LED midstream industry, including a variety of LED accessories and ...
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LED manufacturers invested heavily in production equipment in 2010–2011, driven primarily by demand for backlighting for flat panel displays in TVs and computers. Although this driver has moderated and there is currently an oversupply ...
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Significant investments and subsidies have enhanced Chinese companies’ capabilities to produce not only LED chips and packaged devices, but also materials and equipment used in LED manufacturing, as TOM HAUSKEN explains. There has ...
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The China LED industry has developed at a breakneck pace over the last two years, thanks largely to a clear government policy on solid-state lighting (SSL) and the inclusion of LED as one of the key areas of industry for development within ...
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As the global economic outlook remains stagnant, LED industry's peak season performance may fall short of expectations. Thus, Taiwanese LED firms such as Epistar, Unity Opto, Lextar, and Genesis Photonics underwent setbacks in the stock ...
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Abstract The entire LED lighting supply chain can be divided into the following segments: rare earth, MOCVD equipment, sapphire ingots and substrates, LED chips, LED packaging, and LED lighting fixtures. This Digitimes Special Report ...
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MOCVD, lithography, plasma etching, PECVD & PVD tools to experience turbulent investment cycles in the coming years GEARING UP FOR THE NEXT INVESTMENT CYCLE The packaged LED market still presents significant opportunities for growth ...
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China's LED chipmakers have been slowing down capacity expansion in 2012 due to market oversupply,but some firms have announced plans to invest in upstream epitaxial crystal processing. Industry sources noted that some installed equipment ...
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China-based Sanan Optoelectronics recently announced it was buying up shares of Taiwan-based Formosa Epitaxy. Cooperation between the two firms can achieve benefits such as economies of scale. In 2012, Sanan has a total capacity of 144 ...
Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy on November 12 announced the issuance of up to 120 million new shares specifically for private placement, with China-based maker Sanan Optoelectronics to be the target. The ...
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Australian clean technology innovator,BluGlass Limited announced today that it is now producing n-type gallium nitride(GaN)films with demonstrated industry equivalent performance properties using its breakthrough low temperature Remote ...
In response to China-based LED maker Sanan Optoelectronics' investment of NT$2.35 billion (US$80.4 million) in Formosa Epitaxy, some players in Taiwan's LED supply chain have expressed their worries that Formosa Epitaxy may benefit from the ...
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China-based tier-two LED chipmakers such as Silan Azure, Epilight Technology, and Tsinghua Tongfang have seen on-year decreases of around 30-50% in their accumulated revenues so far in 2012. Gross margin of the three firms has been below ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has seen its third-quarter 2012 equipment orders pick up by 15% sequentially to €34.5m. The company says that current Q4/2012 quotation levels suggest a continuation of ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that it has written down €51.5m of inventory due to a significantly slower-than-expected recovery of demand for metal-organic vapor phase deposition (MOCVD) equipment. ...