The Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2008 kicked off in Taipei on June 11 with energy conservation, LED lighting and backlighting being themes at the show.

Major Taiwan-based LED-related companies, including Epistar, Everlight and Formosa Epitaxy, reported a slight on-month increase in their revenues in May.

Taiwan-based LED packaging company Everlight has introduced its new L02N-series high-brightness LEDs with mass production scheduled to begin in July.

Orders for Single Well, a Taiwan-based LED equipment maker, have decreased in the second quarter which will cause revenues in the third quarter to go down to NT$120-150 million (US$4-5...