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Wednesday 8 April 2009
LED packaging houses post mixed March results
Taiwan-based LED packaging houses Unity Opto Technology and Edison Opto have reported increases in March revenues, while Ledtech Electronic has posted a decline for the month.
Thursday 2 April 2009
LED maker UniLite to shift to high-brightness lighting
Taiwan-based UniLite will shift its focus to high-brightness LED chips for lighting applications amid expectations that the LED general lighting market will take off this year, according...
Wednesday 1 April 2009
Commentary: Upstream LED players turning aggressive in downstream lighting market
Taiwan LED chipmakers and packaging houses, such as Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy, Everlight Electronics, and Bright LED, are crossing into the general lighting and streetlamp market in...
Friday 27 March 2009
Everlight to set up LED joint venture with China company
Everlight Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED packaging house, has announced that its board of directors has decided to set up a joint venture with China-based Shanghai Yaming Lighting...
Monday 23 March 2009
LED chipmaker Opto Tech is ready for LED lighting production
LED chipmaker Opto Tech has finished development of outdoor LED projection lamps and LED T-bar lighting products for use in offices and stores in cooperation with Japan-based Nichia...
Tuesday 17 March 2009
International PWM IC designers look to LED lighting market
International design houses of power management (PWM) ICs, including Fairchild Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments (TI), are paying attention to the market potential...
Friday 13 March 2009
OLED lighting to take off in 2011, says DisplaySearch
The OLED lighting market is setting the stage to take off in 2011, with OLED lighting revenues forecast to surpass PMOLED displays in the 2013 or 2014 timeframe, reaching US$6 billion...
Thursday 12 March 2009
LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy to set up subsidiary in China
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy will invest US$1.5 million to establish a subsidiary in Shandong province, China, with centers for R&D, testing, and the production...
Friday 6 March 2009
Unity Opto February revenues up more than 40%
Taiwan-based LED packaging company Unity Opto Technology has reported February revenues of NT$170.68 million (US$4.91 million), representing sequential growth of 41.1% from NT$120.96...
Wednesday 4 March 2009
LED lighting players eyeing commercial-use halogen bulb replacement market
LED lighting players are eyeing the replacement market for halogen lamps used in commercial areas such as hotels and restaurants, according to market sources.
Wednesday 25 February 2009
LED driver IC designer Macroblock upbeat about architectural lighting applications
LED driver IC designer Macroblock forecasts LED architectural lighting applications to be its chief growth driver for 2009. The company has recently launched a 40V PWM-embedded 3-channel...
Wednesday 25 February 2009
CCFL maker Wellypower eyeing China general lighting market
Taiwan-based cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) maker Wellypower Optronics, a subsidiary of LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO), plans to enter the general lighting market in China...
Thursday 15 January 2009
Delta announces new LED lighting product line
Delta Electronics has announced a product line of advanced energy-saving LED lighting products. The company demonstrated 14 new products that cover functional as well as indoor and...
Tuesday 6 January 2009
CCFL makers Wellypower and Gio eye own brand lighting products, says paper
Eying the lighting market, cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) maker Wellypower Optronics, an affiliate of AU Optronics (AUO), and Gio Optoelectronics, an affiliate of Chi Mei Optoelectronics...
Wednesday 17 December 2008
Taiwan market: Government moves to promote LED lighting
The Taiwan government is encouraging its offices to replace traditional lighting fixtures with LED ones in order to save energy, while transportation authorities also have plans to...