Seoul Semiconductor has announced its revenue for the second quarter of 2018 to be KRW 290 billion (US$ 259.84 million), which meets the company’s target of KRW 280 to 300 billion. 

Taiwanese LED driver IC provider Macroblock has become a supplier of Samsung’s display products and might benefit from Samsung’s mass production of Micro LED displays.

OSRAM and Continental have finished the negotiation and approval process and launched OSRAM Continental GmbH joint venture that started to operate from July 2nd 2018. OSRAM Continental plans to employ around 1,500 people worldwide and to move the headquarters from Munich to Garching.

Nichia, the leading LED Company based in Japan, held a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan and shared its state-of-the-art lighting technologies in automotive, medical, and horticultural applications. 

Hyundai Mobis revealed its new achievement in developing new materials for making lamps which can defeat the fog problem. The new materials application also helped to reduce the weight of its lamp products by 20% for one lamp.

EVERLIGHT, devoted to the development of the domestic and foreign markets, will attend CEATEC for the first time to demonstrate the advantages of diversified product offerings including opto interruptors, couplers, transmitting/receiving components (IR, PD/PT), automotive and lighting components, applied for multi-function printers, touch screens, eye tracking, automotive ambient lighting and lighting applications. We sincerely invite you to experience the overall solutions from EVERLIGHT Electronics.  

EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, introduces the EL Micro Multi (1216) and EL Multi Color (2525) series with two and four chips in ceramic packages specifically designed for ambient lighting applications in the vehicle interior.

LEDinside, a division of the global market research company TrendForce, has recently published the report 1Q17 Micro LED Next Generation Display Industry Trend, in which trenchant insights and analyses regarding the Micro LED market will be illustrated in depth.

Aware of that the automotive industry has been heeding self-driving technology and the concept of new energy vehicles, LEDinside would like to look into the automotive optical solutions and sensor applications with the introduction of LED technology, including automotive LED lighting, optical components, and optical measuring techniques that support ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems).

Specializing in the LED automotive lighting niche market and LED commercial lighting market, Laster Tech has benefitted from the continued growth of the Chinese automotive market. With more and more automobiles utilizing LED lights, the LED automotive lighting industry has seen continued growth in 2013. Consolidated revenue for Jan.-Oct. reached NT $1.34 billion (US $43 million), a yearly growth of 34.31 percent.

[LED Lighting Market Development Trend- Commercial Lighting Market Trend] Because commercial lighting often serves a long operation time, in addition to the high brightness requirement, energy-saving requests have also been significant. Since the efficiency of LED lighting products have continued to increase, LED lighting demands brought by the replacement with LED light source will also increase. LEDinside expect that by 2015, the global LED commercial lighting market value will be up to 16,818 million USD.