Cyberlux Corporation announced that the Company has produced and shipped the first order from Sierra Nevada Corporation for the Cyberlux LED Hardened Shelter Lighting solution. Sierra Nevada uses five 24” Cyberlux HSL fixtures in the delivery of the Humvee-based mobile command and control centers produced for the U.S. Military. 

Due to ongoing market share gains as well as rising demand, Lite-On Technology Corp. July consolidated revenue achieved to NT$10.54 billion, up 24% Y-o-Y, and cumulative sales from January through July reached NT$71.57 billion with growth of 41% Y-o-Y.

SemiLEDs Corporation, which specializes in blue, UV, and green LED chips, has filed for an Initial Public Offering. The firm registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $173 million in shares. The firm has a history of 5 years and has booked $29 million in sales for the 12 months ended May 31.And it intends to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol LEDS.

Cree announced its annual revenue and annual net income. Its record revenue has achieved to $264.6 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, ended June 27, 2010. Compared to revenue of $148.1 million reported for the fourth fiscal quarter last year, it increase by 79% and compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2010, it increase by 13%. GAAP net income for the fourth quarter increased 445% year-over-year to $52.8 million, or $0.48 per diluted share.

Considering the Asian market is a cornerstone to the market growth, Luminus Devices, developer and manufacturer of PhlatLight® LEDs, and Comex Technology announced a partnership through which Comex will distribute Luminus LEDs to customers in Asia. Comex will provide comprehensive distribution, supply-chain optimization and technical support to help Luminus’ customers to accelerate product development for a variety of general illumination and specialty lighting applications.

LUXEON® Rebel LEDs have been selected by Daimler AG for use in the Daytime Running Light function on several vehicle .Also Daimler intends to expand the use of LUXEON Rebel LEDs for the DRL function in other models.

AIXTRON AG announced an order for three mass production MOCVD systems for GaN HB-LED production from the INCOTEX Group, a new AIXTRON customer in Bulgaria. INCOTEX placed the order in the first quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered from the third quarter of 2010 onwards. The local AIXTRON Europe support team will commission the new reactors at the company’s purposebuilt facility in Bulgaria.

GlacialTech Inc. introduces the novel GL-BR20D/30D/40D Series LED Bulbs that are 110/220VAC LED retrofits for conventional BR halogen bulbs. What makes GL-BR20D/30D/40D most unique is the TRIAC-dimmable function embodied in the bulbs for smoothly dimming down to complete darkness while the dimmer's conduction angle is being diminished towards nil.

Austriamicrosystems AS3676 is a light management unit, which is available in flexible power management for LEDs. It fits for portable devices and highlights ALS and DLS. Below are the main features:

Spectronics Corporation has revealed the world's most powerful, portable fluorescent leak detection flashlight, the new Spectroline® OPX-3000 OPTIMAX™ 3000.

Lighthouse Technologies of Irvine, CA, USA announced that its video screen products feature Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA. According to the firm, 65% or more of its product components are sourced from US-based companies.

Dialight announced that the city of Spokane, Washington has completed the installation of 132 of the company’s ITE-compliant LED pedestrian countdown timers to improve crosswalk safety and comply with the latest requirements in the U.S. Dept. of Transportation Federal Highways Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).

BluGlass Ltd of Sydney, Australia has completed the design, installation as well as commissioning of its fifth-generation remote RPCVD system. It has developed a low-temperature process using RPCVD to grow materials including GaN and InGaN on glass substrates for the production of LEDs since spinning off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University in 2005.

Cree partnerships with Habitat for Humanity of Durham to light up the construction on the world's first Habitat for Humanity house with its newest LED downlight, the CR6™ downlight and other LED products. It's said that, compared with traditional lighting, the LED lighting in this house is projected to save approximately $250 worth of electricity costs per year .

Grundig has announced its first range of LED LCD TVs. There are two models in the Grundig LED LCD range, which is called Vanto. There's the 19-inch model for RRP $439 (GLED1907HD) and a 22-inch model for RRP $529 (GLED2207HD). Shared features include a 6-star energy rating, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 35-millimetre thickness, HDMI and USB inputs and a 3.5-millimetre headphone jack.

To prepare for Filipinos during monsoon season,Akari introduces new multi-functional lights. The collection features the LED rechargeable emergency lights, rechargeable LED lamp with fan and radio, 12-inch rechargeable AC/DC fan, and 14-inch rechargeable fan with LED light. The AEL-969, high-powered LED rechargeable emergency light has a built-in AM/FM radio and mobile charger perfect for emergencies.

To serve as a single platform to address the issues of the growing industry and to make people aware of the future lighting technology, Indian LED manufacturers have joined force with M V Ramana Rao, chairman and managing director of MIC Electronics Ltd as its president to set up LED products Manufacturers Association (LEDMA).   It said that the industry has boasted a collective turnover of about Rs. 5,000 crores in India, so LEDMA hope to draw the attention of the Government and public to strengthen and develop the LED industry.

Daktronics will supply about 33,000 linear meters of ProPixel(R) LED stick video elements to Phoenix Island Development of China. This order was booked during the Daktronics' fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010.And the installation of the multi-million dollar Daktronics LED display system is arranged to be completed by the end of 2010.

Due to the rapid development of the edge-lighting light-guide plates, which are the key parts used in edge-lighting LED backlight modules for TFT-LCD panels, Taiwan's major suppliers Forhouse Corp. and  Entire Technology Co., Ltd. schedules to expand production capacity.

London minnow Enfis has announced that it was contracted to supply LED arrays and drivers for the NBA Stadium under construction in Guangzhou, China , for this November's Asian Games, which it said would help it showcase its product in the whole of Asia. The contract is the group's largest individual order for architectural lighting. Enfis will provide a total 900 LED light engines for the stadium for an undisclosed amount.

OPTEK Technology’s LED lab provides design engineers of LED light engines with the facility to perform the precision testing required for uniform color temperature and intensity. Specifically built for the testing and analysis of LED light engines, OPTEK’s lab capabilities feature 100 percent color temperature and/or intensity screening for precision binning specifications.

Pennsylvania cities Ambler and Sunbury have joined the Cree LED City® initiative. Both cities upgrade streets lights with LED fixtures from Spring City Electrical Manufacturing Company, featuring Cree’s XLamp® MC-E and XP-E LEDs.

Lighting Manufacturers Now Have Access to an Expanded Portfolio of Color Temperatures and Color Rendering Options

Phihong, a global leader in power solutions, has developed an LED driver capable of supplying 90W of power for use in indoor lighting. Designated the PSM090-240P, the power supply's open-frame design allows for ease of integration into interior lighting designs. The device is available in a constant current of 3.75A with an output DC voltage range of 22.8~25.2 and is designed for any input line from input voltage range of 100V to 277V AC.

Successful launch of jointly developed Super Star LED lamps featuring patented industry-leading LED technologies demonstrates deep commitment to Hong Kong’s LED lighting industry

Update on National Demonstration Program for Adaptive Street Lighting Streetlight Intelligence Inc. ("SLQ") is pleased to announce that the "National Demonstration Program" for its Lumen IQ™ street light optimization technology has proven successful with cities and utilities across Canada.

Rambus is seeking for potential licensees for its edge-lit LED technology, which was acquired from Global Lighting Technology, a Taiwanese company set up by an American mid-Westerner called Jeff Parker last December.

IQE subsidiary NanoGaN has acquired two separate patents, patent 2008-549935 granted by the Japan Patent Office and patent No.2446471 granted by the UK patent office for its nanocolumn technology. The title of patent 2008-549935 is: "growth method using nanostructure compliant layers and HVPE for producing high quality compound semiconductor materials."This patent protects the Group's proprietary nanocolumn technology for producing high quality, free-standing gallium nitride substrates.

Up To 60 Percent Smaller Than Alternate Solutions

Philips Lumileds announced that it shipped its billionth LUXEON power LED in the 2nd quarter of 2010. The company’s capacity and infrastructure investments over the last several years have enabled it to meet customer needs for high volumes of products, with the company delivering over 750 million LUXEON power LEDs in the past two years to automotive, illumination and consumer electronics customers.