With the great growth in LED TV backlighting demand in last year, lots of LED chip production capacity has been utilized, although the oversupply in the market has not yet been fully resolved, it has significantly reduce the gap between supply and demand, so manufacturers from Taiwan and Mainland have released news about expanding capacity, including Sanan, Silan Microelectronics and Aucksun, while Epistar and Lextar also are expanding chip production capacity by 25% to 33%, mainly betting on the rapid development of LED lighting in future, chip manufacturers are first ex...

The energy-saving lamp manufacturers from mainland China are actively transforming from the traditional energy-saving lamps to LED lights, Epistar and Edison top in this transformation, Epistar has cooperated with downstream packaging factories to provide light engine; and Edison received a big order from the energy saving lamp manufacturer from mainland China, so that the capacity of Edison in the second quarter is fully loaded. Mainland China is the world's largest production base of energy-saving lamps, its global market share is more than 80%. As the price of LED ...