2010-07-27
To arouse more attention to the overall benefits of the legislative changes and new, "greener" technologies, such as LEDs and CFLs, DOE scheduled to make a new consumer education initiative that will be timed to the upcoming changes in light bulb regulation.
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2010-07-27
Acuity Brands has got two kinds of financial support to develop its Solid-State Lighting solutions.
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2010-07-26
Applied Materials will stop selling its 'SunFab' thin-film lines to potential new customers and focuse on c-Si and LED manufacturing equipment and technology.
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2010-07-23
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that during the recently completed second quarter, Shanghai Epilight Technology Company Ltd., one of the largest LED manufacturers in China, placed a multi-tool order for Veeco TurboDisc(R) K465i(TM) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems. The equipment is for Epilight's planned capacity expansion at their Shanghai high-brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) fab.
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2010-07-22
AIXTRON AG today announced the move of its South Taiwan Office into its new facilities in Tainan Tree Valley, next to the Tainan Science Based Industrial Park.
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2010-07-22
Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd. began developing LED fans last year and secured orders from Philips for its LED lamps in the second quarter.
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2010-07-21
Osram Opto Semiconductor's prototype of a red Golden Dragon Plus LED sets new record
Developers at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors have succeeded in increasing the efficiency of red thin-film LEDs by 30% – a new record. The latest generation of thin-film chips benefit from an optimized chip platform which has potential for further improvements. This boost in efficiency is opening up new LED applications in general illumination, in projection and in the industrial sector.
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2010-07-21
TSMC will set up a new plant with more than $9.4 billion in Taichung, Taiwan. The new plant has a total site area of 18.4ha and will have a building area of 430,000sqm and clean room area of 104,000sqm. It's reported to create 8,000 jobs over the next few years.
Fab 15, in Taichung's Central Taiwan Science Park will be TSMC's third GigafabTM, or fab with capacity of more than 100,000 300mm wafers per month, and will also be TSMC's second GigafabTM equipped for 28nm technology.
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2010-07-20
Arima Optoelectronics Corporation (AOC) has chosen Veeco multiple TurboDisc(R) K465i GaN and E475 Arsenic Phosphide (As/P) MOCVD Systems to support production ramp.
According to Marco Kuo, President of Arima Optoelectronics, they choose Veeco's MOCVD systems because of its production-proven reliability and high productivity. Most of the systems will be installed in a new joint venture company, Shanxi Province, Northern China.
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2010-07-20
Tirupati in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India has participated in the Cree LED City® Program.
Tirupati is one of India's important pilgrimage centers and a major economical and education hub in the southern region of Andhra Pradesh. To better light two of the city's busiest roads, Tirupati converted more than 140 street lights to LED fixtures.
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2010-07-19
Based on the fact that LED TV occupied 30 percent of the market in the second half last year, some experts predict the LED TV market share will be 70 percent this year.
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2010-07-19
Labsphere set up new manufacturing facility, Shanghai Lanfei Optical Equipment Co. Ltd., which is totally owned foreign enterprise in China, aiming at providing light measurement products and customer support at a local level.
Three years ago, Labsphere opened its first sales office in China. It supplies LED, laser and traditional light source light measurement systems critical to China's developing solid state lighting industry.
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2010-07-19
Greenscape Capital Group released that Green Park Denver LLC has chosen The LED Company, based out of Wilmington, Delaware, as the lighting supplier to its Denver parking facility.
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2010-07-19
Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd., a leading lighting company listed on the Hong Kong exchanges, has ordered its first Veeco TurboDisc(R) K465i Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) system to support its LED manufacturing capacity ramp at its JiangMen, China factory. Veeco received the order during the recently completed second quarter.
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2010-07-16
ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ONNN) and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6764), today announced the signing of a definitive purchase agreement providing for the acquisition of SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SANYO Electric, and other assets related to SANYO Electric's semiconductor business, by ON Semiconductor in a cash and stock transaction with a purchase price of approximately $366 million (¥33.0 billion), subject to adjustment pursuant to the terms of the transac
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2010-07-16
China's Ministry of Science and Technology made a plan to install around 100,000 streetlights in 10 major metropolises across the mainland last year. China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in charge of the implementation of the project, and is considering offering Taiwan's manufacturers half of the contracts designated for four cities in Guangdong, Fujian and Sichuan .
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2010-07-16
Neo-Neon Holdings Co., Ltd. LED lighting revenue and earnings for this year would surge further after posting an unexpected growth last year, when global economy remained plagued by recession, according to its chief executive Ben Fan.
Thanks to accelerating replacements for traditional lamps with LED lamps, Fan said the firm's sales in mainland China for the first half of this year kept the same level as recorded for the whole 2009 .
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2010-07-15
Flexible street lighting under any lighting conditions
Apart from LEDs, luminaire manufacturer Arquiled now fits with an ambient light sensor another semiconductor component from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors in its new luminaries. This sensor provides intelligent light management and reduces energy costs at the same time, as its brightness is automatically adjusted to any situation.
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2010-07-15
Based on seeking help from Taiwanese LED component makers to get away from growing competition of global TV brands, the China Video Industry Association scheduled to visit Taiwanese LED suppliers from the nation's major LED chip packagers and makers such as Epistar Corp.
As the experts predict, LED TV will be one of the fast-growing areas in the future to replace CCFL backlight source for LCD TV panels, pointed out by deputy director of the association Bai Weimin.
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2010-07-15
Thanks to LED & High Speed Electronics, SPP Process Technology Systems (SPTS) has reached a 200% increase in revenue in the first half of 2010.Thus it celebrates its first 9 months of positive growth ahead of the annual SEMICON West 2010 exhibition.
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2010-07-15
Bridgelux, Inc. has chosen Praxair Electronics as its partner in manufacturing operations at Bridgelux's Livermore, Calif.
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2010-07-14
Due to the scarcity of electronic components from upper stream, for production capacity entire LED industry has shrunk significantly. Also, many major international LED manufacturers have extended its delivery time to reflect to this emergency. As today, the lead time has been stretched out from 5 weeks to nearly 20 weeks. This bad situation swept the LED industry, which is in rapidly growing stage now. The serious impact does not only affect LED manufacturers, but also for distributors and trading companies who are facing huge financial penalty by postponing delivery schedule.
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2010-07-14
Micron Technology, Applied Materials, and Ultratech have participated in the imec industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on GaN-on-Si technology in Leuven, Belgium.
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2010-07-14
AIVtech International Group Co. will provide 15,000 LED-backlit LCD TVs with Europea Trade N.V..
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2010-07-09
An Executive Congress on LED lighting was hosted by Frost & Sullivan in India at the Hyatt Regency in New Delhi.
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2010-07-08
Light Transformation Technologies LLC, the subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation, signed a settlement and license agreement with Osram Sylvania Inc..
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2010-07-08
Cree, Inc. and Philips have joined force in a comprehensive, worldwide LED patent cross-license agreement, aiming to further accelerate the growth of the LED lighting market.
The agreement includes patents from both parties in the fields of blue LED chip technology, white LEDs and phosphors (including remote phosphors), control systems, LED luminaires and lamps ,LED backlighting of LCDs and patents in the Philips LED Luminaire Licensing Program.
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2010-07-07
Samsung and LG intend to offer a wider range of LED TVs this year.
According to Rohit Pandit, business head for home entertainment at LG Electronics in India, LG new range of TVs is now weighted 50-50 between LED and LCD units.
Samsung India deputy managing director Ravinder Zutshi also forecasts sales of 200,000-300,000 LED sets this year, compared to 40,000 in 2009.
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2010-07-07
The LED market is developing rapidly, with US$7 billion in 2009 rising up to US$10.7 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach US$20.4 billion in 2012.
The application of LED backlights by LCD TV manufacturers increased from 0.01% at the end of 2008 to 10% in the second half of 2009. It is expected to reach 27% by the end of 2010. And the application of LED backlights by LCD display producers grew from 0.01% at the end of 2008 to 5%.
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2010-07-07
Digi-Key made an agreement with Bridgelux for LED distribution. It will distribute Bridgelux products to customers worldwide.
Bridgelux offers one of the industry's widest ranges of solid-state light sources, delivering 240 to 4500 "hot" lumens across a broad range of color temperatures.
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