Taiwan-based tier-two LED chipmaker Tyntek has confirmed that its upstream blue epitaxial wafer firm Alpha Plus Epi has suspended production. Rumors regarding the production suspension of Alpha Plus Epi have been circulating in the market ...
Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and chip packager Lextar Electronics expects the proportion of LED backlight unit (BLU) orders for clients other than AU Optronics (AUO) - Lextar's parent company - to increase from 40-50% ...
Tags: LED epitaxial wafer, Lextar Electronics, LED backlight unit, AU Optronics
LED firm Formosa Epitaxy plans to install 12-13 sets of MOCVD equipment before the end of first-quarter 2013 and expects production to begin in the second quarter. Monthly capacity at the firm's Taiwan plant is likely to increase by 50,000 ...
Tags: Formosa Epitaxy, LED, MOCVD equipment
LED lighting needs to have a unified standard, said Horng-Ching Hsiao, professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and a member of The Illuminating Engineering Society of Taiwan. Hsiao noted that in recent years, the ...
Tags: LED lighting, unified standard, LED industry
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar, LED chip packaging house Unity Opto Technology and fellow maker Lextar Electronics have seen orders increase significantly in March, according to the companies. Due to increased orders for LED ...
Tags: Epistar, Unity Opto, Lextar, LED chip
Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED chip packager Lextar Electronics on March 4 released its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2012, with the 2012 business operation swinging from a net loss of NT$138 million in ...
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As the total LED production capacity in China has significantly exceeded demand due to excessive investment over the past three years, the China government is expected to promote integration or mergers for less competitive LED makers to ...
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Due to rising demand for LED products from the handsets and lighting sectors, market research institutes predict the global LED market output value will reach US$12.4 billion in 2013, representing an on-year growth of 12%. However, the ...
Tags: LED products, LED lighting products, LED light sources
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Everlight Electronics had January consolidated revenues of NT$1.653 billion (US$56.0 million) growing on month and year. According to the firm, demand for traditional lamp products has been weak but orders ...
Ocean Optics has recently been recognised with an ‘OFweek 2012 Best LED Service Supplier Award’ by China’s high technology portal OFweek photonics news. Since its entry into the Chinese market, Ocean Optics has ...
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In 2012, the total output value of China's LED industry was CNY 205.9 billion with the year-on-year growth of 34%. Of which, the output value of upstream epitaxial wafer and chip industry, midstream packaging industry and downstream ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics has obtained orders from the largest Russia-based LED packager and lighting maker, with monthly shipments exceeding one million LED chips, while Taiwan-based LED packaging ...
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Various countries have banned the use of incandescent light bulbs, paving the way for LED lighting to shine. However, due to numerous newcomers in China taking up massive capacity expansion, the LED market has been in severe oversupply, ...
Tags: 2013, Opportunities, Risks, LED Lighting
If the global economy rebounds smoothly, global LED lighting demand is likely to begin to increase significantly along with expected improvement in performance-cost ratio for LED lighting devices as early as the second half of 2013 rather ...
Tags: LED lighting demand, LED lighting devices, LED lighting, 2H13
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has agreed to acquire the Kopin Wireless compound semiconductor epiwafer manufacturing division of Kopin Corp of Taunton, MA, USA (including its leased manufacturing ...
Tags: IQE, UK, Kopin Wireless, semiconductor, KTC