Led by the Minister without Portfolio J.F. Chang of the Executive Yuan, Taiwan’s Cabinet, a delegation of over 60 executives from 20 Taiwanese high-tech manufacturers recently set out for the United States to hunt for talents in Silicon Valley and Boston. It mainly recruited specialists in six sectors including photovoltaic, optoelectronics, materials, and biotech. Delegation members planned to offer a total of 1,200 jobs covering R&D specialists, market researchers, market managers, and accountants.

It's reported that the President and CEO of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Dr. Rüdiger Müller will hand over the 22-year reins of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors to Aldo Kamper on October 1, 2010.

American Albemarle Corporation has invested in Asia Pacific region of Yeosu, South Korea. It mainly invested on two sides,one investment is in in metallocene catalysts by leveraging its breakthrough ActivCat(TM) technology for polyolefin production,the other is to leverage its 50+ years of production experience in metal organics to supply High Purity Metal Organics (HPMOs) such as TMG to the High Brightness LED (HBLED) market.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) August sales grow slowly. According to the report announced by TSMC, its consolidated net sales for August 2010 were approximately NT$37.39 billion (about $1.17 billion), an increase of 0.5 percent over July 2010 and an increase of 25.4 percent over August 2009.

Philips has come up with a new concept of the building of livable cities with green lighting solutions to enhance sustainable development of Asian economies

Japanese Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will introduce world's first, large-scale display OLED system "Diamond Vision OLED".   This screen jointly developed between Mitsubishi Electric and Tohoku Pioneer Corporation, used Mitsubishi Electric's newly developed video controlling technology, and designed for indoor use.

KinLumens launches its 10W LED downlight, which is available in indoor residental and commercial lighting. With an ability to maintain 70% initial lumens over 50,000 hours of continuous operation. By consuming as little as 10 watts, a reduction in CO2 emissions and a saving of over 80% in energy is achieved with Edison LED when compared to 100W incandescent lamp fixture installations.

It's reported that VIRIBRIGHT will showcase its LED lighting products, at the HD Boutique Trade Show on September 14-15, 2011 in Miami, Florida.

The first set of LED street lamps has been commissioned by the Zejtun local council in Malta. Mayor Joe Attard proposed this new development in street lighting technology to the council.

German ARRI will introduce focusable LED-based lampheads with a true Fresnel light field at IBC 2010. ARRI's tungsten Fresnel lights are workhorses of the industry and relied upon by lighting designers the world over. By combining the cool-burning, energy-efficient advantages of LED illumination with the controllable versatility of traditional Fresnel fixtures, ARRI has taken the best of both worlds and created a truly revolutionary lamphead.

American lighting company ProPhotonix intends to raise about £6m on Aim. If it succeeds, ProPhotonix will become only the second US company to join Aim. Previously listed on the Pink Sheets market, ProPhotonix is hoping to attract investor interest this side of the Atlantic because its LED operations are based in Cork, Ireland, and its laser operations are in Stansted, Essex.

TESS (topco energy saving system corp.), recently made another breakthrough in upgrading luminous efficiency for LED lighting - the company announces its new product, a 12.5 watt LED bulb delivers 1400 lumen. TESS set the highest luminous efficiency of 100lm/W this April by releasing 10 watt 1000 lumen LED bulb; yet, within 5 months, TESS set a higher standard of 112lm/W for LED lighting industry.

 A few days ago, LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Arima Optoelectronics planed to establish LED Mark Bray silicon wafer factory in the name of Arima Optoelectronics Jiangsu in Wujiang ,and Arima Opto owed a wholly shareholding with US$30 million investment. In order to expand blue light LED productivity, the company also had set another new factory in Changzhi city. Now the factory has been built, which are expected to import 15 MOCVD before the end of 2010, reaching 30 MOCVD in 2011.

Due to ongoing market share gains coupled with steady demand, Taiwan Lite-On Technology Corp. August consolidated revenue of NT$10.29 billion, up 23% Y-o-Y.

Accoring to Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic , instead of LED sets, edge-lit LED TVs will become the standard for LCD sets. Panasonic's technical marketing manager Markus Wagenseil,pointed out that compared to slimmer and cheaper sets using edge-mounted LEDs, direct LED technology will prove to be too expensive to be sustainable. In additon, direct LED sets require many more LEDs to be mounted than the alternative option, which will prove a disadvantage due to a market shortage of electronic components.

Sensor Electronic Technology (SETI) has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Kyma Technologies, of Raleigh, NC, USA, aiming at developing low defect AlGaN substrates and high performance optoelectronic and electronic devices. It's reported that SETI will center its device development efforts on next generation high efficiency Deep UV LEDs on these novel substrates as it grows its markets in high power applications such as water disinfection.

According to the Chairman and President of China TV manufacturer Skyworth Zhang Xuebin, Skyworth is planned to cut the prices of LED flat-panel televisions in the next six months to promote the sales. Zhang added that Chinese TV producers cut prices of about 25% in old TV models between April and June.

The Series 55-EX, an LED luminaire that can be used with a sight glass in hazardous areas is introduced by L.J. Star.It's first High-Power LED Luminaire with explosion proof rating .

Cree has announced that more than 80,000 Cree LRP-38 spotlights will highlight merchandise in hundreds of The Furniture Row Companies retail stores nationwide.

Both Unity Opto Technology and Formosa Epitaxy had reduced their LED-backlit models in 2010 from 30% originally to 15-20% and 20-25%. The head of Epitaxy noted, affected adjustment of inventory by Samsung and LG, their ESP of ED-backlit TVs' market in 2010 would slip.

Taiwan's LED chip maker Huga's largest shareholder Epistar (with a 46% equity interest) has taken three seats on Huga board. According to Huga, it will expand its MOCVD equipment to a total of 60 sets at the end of 2010 and to 80 sets in 2011, and will adjust TV backlighting products to 10% of its total shipments at the end of the year and over 20% in 2011. High-brightness LED products currently represent 70-80% of Huga's revenues.

As fears of weakening demand for equipment such as LCD screens that use the LED bulbs, Cree closed down 8.1% to $50.18, Veeco fell 8.3% to $33.44 and Aixtron AG was 5.3% lower at $24.78. Cree and Veeco share prices are unchanged while Aixtron is down to $24.72 in recent late trading.

EdgeDiveTech has designed two new products- the Edge Ultra100 and the Edge Ultra200 to lit up the undersea world . The Edge Ultra100 is a single canister light, which provides 9,000 lumens of light with its 80 degree angle. In addition, it has a burn time of 2 hours, is rated to a depth of 500ft (152m) and features wet connections between light head and canister, making it possible to change battery canisters underwater.

Hi Score has completed the replacement of approximately 3,500 T8 fluorescent tubes with the EcoGreenBulb T5 Retrofit System at the second stage of the conversion of the Ocean Four Condominium Towers in Sunny Isles.   The conversion began in October 2009 with the replacing of over 1,000 traditional halogen light bulbs to 6W LED bulbs. And the conversion is saving Ocean Four approximately 40% off this part of their light bill.

TYNTEK introduces its new non-directional AR111 LED lamps. TYNTEK AR111 LED lamps have special designed reflectors with efficient focusing properties and extremely tight beam angles of 27° for high center beam luminance of at least 4000 lux so that objects can be highlighted even in bright surroundings. With 4 CREE LEDs and a reflector in one lamp, the non-directional LED design creates exceptionally smooth beam patterns, which solves the conventional LED spot pattern problem.

Philips Research has developed an AC-powered module for accelerating the move to create mainstream OLED products.   Instead of current OLEDs which require low-voltage direct current sources, the alternating current powered white-light module can be plugged directly into a wall socket.  

Unite States Federal Trade Commission had sued a California- based light bulb manufacturer, Lights of America, for misrepresenting the light output and life expectancy of its LED bulbs. It becomes the first F.T.C. case challenging LED marketing claims.  

It's reported that the world's first all-plastic LED lamp for outdoor illumination is jointly developed by two Japanese companies, Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd. and Teijin Limited. Iwasaki Electric will release this new lamp by the end of 2010, expecting initial annual sales of 30,000 lamps. Instead of aluminum, the lamp uses a high-thermal-conductivity resin for the housing. And the resin is made by combining Teijin's Raheama（tm） high-thermal-conductivity carbon material with polycarbonate resin.

Japanese LED maker Nichia Corporation has filed four provisional injunction actions in Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tsannkuen Japan (Sankun Nihon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha) from infringing Nichia's patent. Nichia believed G.K. Seiyu and K.K. Yamada Denki, had infringed Nichia's white LED patents (No. 3724498, No. 3995011, No. 4109297, No. 4530094).

Zumtobel's LED lighting system has joined the contemporary interior design of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. The Museum now attracts its guests in an entrance hall flooded with light. According to the museum's technical director, Thomas Frey, thanks to the professional technical support provided by Zumtobel,they have achieved a highly attractive result.