Wafer probe card maker MJC Probe (MPI) earned profit NT$272 million (US$8.88 million), up 56％compared to 2Q ,with NT$3.52 per share in net profits, exceeding the total for the whole first half. Gross margin reached about 44.6%, higher than previously expected by market observers. From 1Q to 3Q in 2010, the company posted net profits of NT$515 million, EPS of NT$6.67 and gross margin of 41.7%.

Cree's annual shareholders meeting was held on October 26th.During the meeting, Chuck Swoboda, CEO of Cree, restated the company's commitment to what it has termed the "LED Revolution", saying that the company is in it for the long haul.   As we know, the company has made a great leap in the past several years, growing its cash reserves to $1.1 billion and revenues to $867 million for the past year.  

With the Design Pro LED lights, Kichler has received the Lighting for Tomorrow Award – a lighting industry honor for energy-efficient solutions.

Cree has appointed Robert Tillman, former Lowe's Companies chairman and chief executive officer as the Company's Board of Directors and the Board's Compensation Committee, effective October 26, 2010.

Only one dollar! Now it is time to experience LED lighting era prior! Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT), the high power LED lighting manufacturer from Taiwan, today announces its latest campaign for 2010 Hong Kong International Light Fair Autumn—To anticipate LED lighting era. Aurora™ (MR16 base) series product is only $1 USD as incredible low, entry-level price. On exhibition, ALT also will launch the latest LED T8 tube version 2 and first Metis™ Chandelier light series.

Acuity Brands has participated in a pilot outdoor LED lighting and revitalization project in Rock Falls, Illinois with its Holophane® brand of luminaires and innovative SiteLink® pole system. New LED lighting will highlight the City of Rock Falls' overall objective which focuses on the City Hall parking lot and aims at eventually revitalizing the entire downtown area.

It's reported that Arrow Electronics and Cree, will jointly with major manufacturers of complementary components to host a lighting design seminar and solutions fair Dec. 1-2, 2010, at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, Calif. The free, two-day event is designed for West Coast lighting engineers, specifiers and designers, and professionals.

Affected from LED chip sales in the backlighting market decline, Cree’s revenue for 3Q was about $268.4 million, up 59% compared to the same quarter in 2009 and increasing 1.5% sequentially, but the result was weaker than expected before. Cree’s LED chip sales down almost 20% result from weakness in notebook and monitor backlighting demand.Before that, analysts thought the company’s revenues for 3Q would reach $278 million. But the true amount was weaker than expected to $268.4 million.

It’ s reported that Taiwan high power LED lighting manufacturer Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT), invested in Swaziland, has opened a new era for “African Green Silicon Valley” plan on Swaziland. It has acquired a successful influence on local government as well as other African governments.

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. [TSE:2393] appointed Bert Loburg to the newly created position of Director, Distribution Management EMEA, effective from September 23, 2010. Focal points of his new role will be a structural revision of the company's distribution management, to prepare the sales channel organisation for further growth and to develop and introduce additional professional distribution tools.

Under a successful Beta test at a Florida Lexus car dealership, which provided valuable rollout information, SavWatt USA, Inc. has decided to cooperate with their supplier Unilumin,  one of the few Chinese companies that have UL approval for LED Street Lights in Shenzhen ,to launch an aggressive marketing campaign for their UL approved and certified LED Street Lights.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), has announced that Epistar Corporation, headquartered in Taiwan, placed a multi-tool order for Veeco's TurboDisc(R) K465i(TM) gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems for high volume light emitting diode (LED) production.

Coretronic Corporation(5371)had posted consolidated sales revenue for 3Q of NT$25,903 million with an operating income of NT$1,360 million, up 1% and drop 10% from the previous quarter respectively. Net income totaled NT$1,133 million, dropped 12%. Net income attributable to equity holders of the parent company was NT$1,052 million with the basic EPS of NT$1.45 per common share.   

More and more Taiwanese display panel makers have involved in the production of AMOLED display, because of the optimistic outlooks of the market for such products. Insists on the opinion that AMOLED displays will replace TFT LCDs as the mainstream display panel for smartphones, Wintek Corp.,has switched part of its existing production lines for TFT LCDs to AMOLED displays. At present, its touch panels have contributed over 70% to the firm`s revenue, and TFT LCDs the remainder.

It is reported that Foxconn Electronics will invest US$10 billion in Chengdu to pave way for Chimei Innolux (CMI), which planed to build a factory with producing TFT-LCD panel. While CMI said their indeed planed to invest in china, but the investment was still under evaluation.

Radiant Opto-Electronics pure income for 3Q of 2010 was NT$668 million (US$21.72 million) with an EPS of NT$1.57, and consolidated revenues for 3Q were NT$12.36 billion, with gross profits of NT$1.1 billion, and NT$704 million in operating income.From 1Q until 3Q in 2010, consolidated revenues in Radiant totaled NT$34.62 billion, operating income was NT$2 billion, and net profit reached NT$1.75 billion with an EPS of NT$4.11.

Lately, the president of Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI) Mr. Alcantaro Correa has led Brazil business delegation , exclusively came to visit Aeon Lighting Technology (ALT) head office in Taiwan and listened company profile presentation. During the presentation, all delegation members were impressed by the stability and performance of ALT high power LED lighting products.

German LED maker LayTec has ranked among the national 50 fastest growing technology companies for the second time at the Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 award ceremony in Berlin on October 20, 2010. The award mainly depends on the total growth in sales within the last 5 years. Because LayTec increased its turnover by 241% between 2005 and 2009, also belongs to the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe in 2010.

As the sapphire market became stronger, Taiwan quartz components maker TXC planed to develop sapphire and other crystalline products. It is reported that the company will establish crystal growth capacity and start production in February 2011. Also, wafer slicing and sapphire substrate manufacturing is in the new crystal growth processing operations. TXC planned to invest total NT$300 million (US$9.7 million) initially, with focus on 4- and 6-inch sapphire substrates development.

The Middle East leading retail chain, 'Harman House' announced that it has achieved the highest penetration for Samsung LED TVs in the UAE.   The company further revealed that LED TV sales constitute 55% of its total TV sales in the UAE, thereby underlining the growing demand for flat screen televisions in the country.

The municipal government office in Dongguan, China, has issued a "Dongguan to promote industrial development and application of LED demonstration plan". The plan proposed that some roads to the city street lights newly installed or modified as LED, LED lighting industry in output value reached 15 billion yuan in 2015.And six years to install 80,000 LED lamps.

Eco Depot has announced a World-wide distributor search to recruit key players for the LED lighting systems provider and its global partners in preparation for the unveiling of a unique LED financing and underwriting program for municipalities and corporations for 2011.

Taiwan's outlying island of Kinmen has installed a new system of LED lamps for street lighting as part of the county's low carbon energy-saving efforts. As the county government was awarded a grant by the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Bureau of Energy to finance the plan, Sixty-nine automated LED lamps were installed on a section of the island's Huandao East Road, replacing the previous sodium and mercury street lamps.

As Apple announced an upgraded MacBook Air,  featuring 11.6-inch panel, it is hoped that several manufactories in Taiwan would become one of the suppliers in the supply chain for the machine, such as Foxconn Electronics, Quanta Computer, AU Optronics (AUO),Chimei Innolux (CMI) and so on.

World renowned Cleantech group announced its 2010 top 100 Cleantech companies on October 14th, 2010. LatticePower has been listed in the 100 list, the top 10 of Asia-Pacific and one of three companies from China who shares the prestige.

Recently, Genesis Photonics started seting a third LED epitaxial wafer factory in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), which could produce 120,000 LED epitaxial wafers every month and will complete the project in 2Q 2011.

Massachusetts Congressional District Congresswoman Niki Tsongas has taken a visit to Luminus Devices at its corporate headquarters in Billerica, MA.

In 2002, right after 9/11, eight-year-old Veronica Granite from New Jersey began a petition drive to illuminate her hometown bridge with red, white and blue lights. She had recently seen tricolor lighting atop the Empire State Building during a visit to Liberty State Park and thought the Bayonne Bridge should be similarly decorated in patriotic lights. Bayonne Bridge Lit with Patriotic LED Lights custom designed by LEDtronics, Inc.

GlacialLight, a division of GlacialTech Inc. and a global provider of PC Cooling, Power supplies, power drivers and LED lighting, extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display at the INTERLIGHT MOSCOW 2010, the 16th International Trade Fair for Decorative & Technical Lighting, to be held at Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow from 9-12 November 2010. Exhibition Date: 9-12 November 2010 GlacialLight Booth #: S51-52, Hall 7.2

Recently, CCFL lighting maker Wellypower Optronics’3Q10 revenues made a new record. The consolidated total revenues went up NT$2.27 billion, gross profit was NT$270 million with a 12% gross margin. Also, pure income reached NT$171 million (US$5.53 million), up 694% sequentially, EPS was NT$1.01, and operating incomer was NT$142 million.