Velodyne LiDAR announced that it is partnering with Unmanned Solution (UMS) of South Korea to integrate its advanced LiDAR sensors into UMS’ expansive autonomous technology development program.

Telensa, a connected street lighting and Smart City applications provider, today announced that it has been selected by Wellington City Council to deploy its PLANet intelligent streetlighting system. The project will start in November 2017 and is due for completion in June 2018.

A recent study led by Christopher Kyba from the GFZ German Research Centre shows artificially lit outdoor surfaces grew at an annual rate of 2.2% between 2012 and 2016. The fact that the world is transitioning to LED lighting so as to run away from pollution caused by traditional lighting is raising another type of environmental concern— light pollution.

The US Patent & Trademark Office this month published a patent application related to the foldable iPhone from Apple. In this patent, the iPhone maker includes Micro LED as one of the display materials for the model and liquid metal as the bendable part of the phone structure.

The 2018 International Signs and LED Exhibition (ISLE 2018), taking place from March 3-6, 2018, will premiere its new Commercial Display Technology & Applications area, making it easy for buyers to build one-stop integrated LED solutions across multiple channels.

Heliospectra AB announces an order from the University of Adelaide. The Plant Accelerator® at the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus has received a multi-million dollar investment to upgrade technologies and has selected Heliospectra LED Light Solutions to provide new LED lighting. The order is valued at $109,494 USD [SEK 909,000]. 

DECO Lighting has overhauled its Southern California sales representation and appointed LIGHT to cover the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.

Conrad Business Supplies expands its range of outdoor lighting solutions with whcp GmbHs DIODOR 50W LED spotlights FL50W-B-Slim. 

LG Innotek today announced that the company has developed the world's first 100mW (mill watts) UV-C LED. This development is 2 years ahead of the industry forecast that predicted its development would be successful by 2020.

OLED TV and QLED TV have been competing for years, but OLED TV is expected to remain its remarkable dominance in high-end TV market in 2018, says WitsView, a division of TrendForce. More brands are expected to enter OLED TV market in 2018 with a growing field rate, and the shipments are expected to reach a new high of 2.5 million units, a significant increase from 1.5 million in 2017.

Famed KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in his latest report that shipping estimates of the iPhone X have improved to 1-2 weeks in large part because of better-than-expected enhancements in the supply chain, rather than weak demand, reported MacRumors. The worldwide demand for the iPhone X remains strong.

SemiLEDs Corporation, a Taiwanese developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal year 2017, ended August 31, 2017.

LED Corporations announces the completion of the much talked about captivating lighting project designed and installed at the new South Beach Anthropologie store located at 801 Lincoln Road in Miami, FL.

Lighting is the most significant part of workplace physical conditions. Proper lighting involves adequate amount of light, proper dispersal and diffusion, absence of glare, freedom from fluctuation and freedom from injurious invisible radiations. 

Municipalities, enterprises, and households are switching to LED lights in order to save energy. But these savings might be lost if their neighbours install new or brighter lamps. 

Philips Lighting announced it has signed its first LED grow light project in New Zealand with Gourmet Mokai Ltd to improve the quality and cost efficiency of growing its popular Campari cocktail tomatoes.

Apple is partnering with TSMC to develop silicon-based Micro LED displays, while Samsung Electronics is also planning to showcase a new Micro LED TV next year in January at CES 2018.

Solar-Tectic LLC announced a breakthrough OLED display technology that promises to revolutionize the industry by replacing the standard LTPS (low temperature polysilicon) process used world-wide by the major display manufacturers and thereby solving the industry's "backplane problem."

Future Farm Technologies announced that its LED Canada division has made significant progress in the past quarter.

The inauguration ceremony of Osram’s Kulim Plant ended yesterday on a high note. Apart from Osram’s executive board, Mustapa bin Mohamed, Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry also attended the ceremony, representing the determination of Malaysia to recruit high-tech enterprises.

According to the latest report from LEDinside, a division of the market research firm TrendForce, 2018 LED market demand and supply analysis, automotive LED market value in 2017 was USD 2817 million, will grow 12.45% in 2018. Amongst those, the growth driver of automotive LED market will be headlamp, fog light, and automotive panel.

Tridonic received the award for Emergency Lighting Product of the Year for its EM ready2apply product at this year prestigious Lux Awards 2017. The product, which the company describes as ‘out of the box‘ emergency lighting solution, was one of six shortlisted in this year's awards programme.

Ultravision Internationa has been awarded a significant judgment as a result of winning a federal lawsuit against Shenzhen Only Optoelectronic Tech Co Ltd (Shenzhen Only) due to infringement on two patents protecting Ultravision’s proprietary Modular LED Display Panel technology. 

Thorn Lighting has launched two new outdoor luminaires ready for smart cities of today and tomorrow.

Taiwanese LED chipmaker Epistar reported a decline in revenue in October due to the slow season and estimated 4Q17 sales less than that of 3Q17. However, Epistar’s outlook for 2018 is positive with the momentum from collaboration with display makers on Mini LED-lit displays.

Osram's new LED chip factory in Kulim, Malaysia, begins operation on time. "We are both on schedule and within budget," pointed out Olaf Berlien, CEO of OSRAM Licht AG, during the opening ceremony in Kulim on Thursday.

Inorganic microLEDs are the next big thing in displays, not as backlights for LCDs, but like OLEDs, as the actual light emitting pixel elements, ranging from applications in Micro-displays for Augmented /Virtual Reality (AR/VR) to wearables such as Smartwatches and Cellphones. Unlike OLED displays, however, they are far more robust and long-lived, and most importantly, far more efficient and much brighter, making them viable even for larger displays, such as video walls in advertising and in cinema in place of projection.  But to make the technology cost effective, manufacturing challenges abound, particularly as pixel sizes shrink in next generation micro-displays. For example, various coatings must be rapidly deposited in a precise, controlled manner, such as the Quantum Dots (QDs) integrated with the LEDs used in larger displays either to sharpen the color characteristics of traditional phosphors, or fully replace them in micro-displays, relying solely on QDs for color conversion. Better technology is needed for reliably depositing the various costly materials used, and even for rapidly assembling or arraying the microLEDs themselves.

According to the press, during the 21-day Canton Fair this October(122nd session), the Canton Fair Complaint Station for Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) and Trade Dispute handled 554 IPR related cases in total, 78 more than the number of the previous session.

Samsung officially released 34-foot Cinema Screen in 2017, and the screen has been installed at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Korea. This is the first product that brings LED digital display into the movie theater application around the world. Samsung’s goal is to take up 10% movie theater market in 2020.

Philips Lighting has installed 12,000 Philips LED connected street lights, managed by its Philips CityTouch street lighting management software, as part of a renovation of Guadalajara’s public lighting. The project was completed with energy services provider Ferrovial Services.