ZMD AG announced its first energy-efficient LED driver ICs, achieving up to 95% efficiency.

Due to brilliant vibrant illumination, longer life LED's and more cost effective fabrication, John Chiang and Ken-Sheng (David) Chiang of Alluma Tech, who had innovated its Lite Tech LED product line were awarded U.S. patent 7,721,457B2. Lite Tech is the only LED brand utilizing phosphor enhanced graphic decorating to achieve brightness with lower wattage LED's.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and Infineon Technologies both champion the cause of sustainable development and environmental protection. In collaboration with the OSRAM partner network LED Light for you, the German company Diana Electronic Systems has developed an energy-efficient LED lamp for the Global Nature Fund to be used in Sri Lanka. Local fishermen will use the lamps instead of their environmentally harmful kerosene lamps when fishing at night.

IXYS Corp. has introduced the LDS8710/11, LDS8720/24/26 LED drivers to eliminate the external Schottky diode normally used in the rectification loop. The LDS8710 drives a string of 10 LEDs with factory-preset maximum LED current values of 20-, 25- and 30mA with 1% accuracy, and uses pulse-width modulation dimming to adjust LED brightness. They are designed for  LCD display backlight applications such as automotive displays, GPS, netbooks, laptop PCs, tablet computers and industrial and medical displays.

Haima's first SUV equipped LEDs from DOMINANT Opto Technologies for the tail lamp.

Diana Electronic Systems has cooperated with the OSRAM partner network LED Light for you, to develop an energy-efficient LED lamp for the Global Nature Fund to be used in Sri Lanka.

Tyco Electronics launched a new Type CM solderless LED socket. It’s available for integration of the Cree XLamp MP-L multichip LED into light fixtures. The socket provides a termination for six 0.60mm2 connection pads,mounted on the top of the LED. To comply with wire or board applications, it is offered in two versions, the wire termination version and the board termination version. Each is offered with or without attachment features for optics.

Oxley Developments acquired a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation, to provide engineering LED services for the ships’ navigation and signaling lights for the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.  

Philips Lumileds Lighting Company has ordered an additional AIXTRON G5 HT MOCVD reactor. According to Mike Pugh, Chief Procurement Officer of Philips Lumileds, the G5 system’s fully automated operations through integrated wafer handling causes their attention, so they choose G5 system at their San Jose facility.

Hitachi America, Ltd.'s Digital Media Division announced UltraVision® UltraThin LED Series in its 2010 line of LCD HDTVs. The new Hitachi UltraThin LED models thickness are less than two inches and use the latest high-efficiency LED technology while delivering stunning Full HD 1080p 120Hz picture quality. Compared with conventional LCD models, these models are mercury-free and ENERGY STAR® 4.1 qualified, consuming less power without compromising on image brightness or color vibrancy.

Sprint and Samsung Telecommunications America introduced the second 4G-capable handset, Samsung Epic™ 4G, a Galaxy S™ smartphone and Samsung Mobile’s first 4G Android™-powered device. This handset features an exceptionally thin smartphone design with a slide out, full QWERTY keyboard and 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display.

Aixtron cooperate with the University of Duisburg-Essen's Center for Semiconductor and Optoelectronics (ZHO), the Department of Electronics Materials and Nanostructures in a NaSoL nitride nanowires project.

Bridgelux released neutral white versions of ES and RS LEDs, with a colour temperature of 4,100K. ES devices offer 400, 800 and 1,200 lm, while RS device delivers add up to 3,400 lm, expanding the existing 3,100 lm warm white and 4,500 lm cool white RS range. ES and RS LEDs are square: respectively 25 and 50mm across. There is also a 'star' version of ES.RS devices operate at 2.1A with a forward voltage of 26V.

Osram Sylvania will introduce LED lamp to take a share of the market in August. The lamp uses 12 watts, 80 percent less electricity than the standard 60-watt incandescent, and emits nearly as much light. It's supposed to last 25,000 hours.          

Avago produced HLMP-Ex1A/1B-xxxDV (15°) and HLMP-Ex3A/3B-xxxDV (30°) to follow the European Standard EN 12966-1 for variable message traffic signs. And they are Pb-free and RoHS-6 compliant. These 5mm extra bright LEDs are available in red and amber colors. The maximum LED junction temperature limit of +130°C makes high temperature operation in bright sunlight conditions possible. To reduce the effects of long term exposure to direct sunlight, the lamp epoxy uses UV inhibitors.

Samsung Electronics America Inc. introduced 50 Series LED-backlit monitors. These monitors have four sizes , the 20 inch, BX2050, 21.5 inch BX2250, 23 inch BX2350 and 24 inch BX2450,and each delivers a >95% sRGB color gamut and 170 degree horizontal viewing angle. They contain Samsung’s “Magic Angle” technology, so no matter what angle the image is viewed from, the user can tailor settings to maintain full contrast and color depth.

The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) conferred the gold award, which is the top award at the International Design Excellence Awards 2010 (IDEA 2010) to Panasonic Corporation for its EVERLEDS LED light bulbs (standard E26 base and compact E17 base).

Southern Imperial releases Allura™ LED Light Kits. It allows retailers and display designers to use flexible, cost effective, and elegant lighting for under shelf and accent lighting on displays and fixtures.

Vizio provided some details on its 2010 3D TVs, including showing the first 3D model for the U.S. market to offer passive glasses technology. According to Vizio, there exists no 72-inch screen size anymore; the release date has been postponed from "August" to "Q4" of this year; the "XVT Pro" designation has changed to "XVT3D"; and instead of incorporating Bluetooth technology, the glasses will rely on infrared like those of other TV makers.

ACG Electronics has announced its first modular LED High Bay Industrial Light, AltiLED7 (110 Watt) and AltiLED4 (65 Watt).And the patented design provides connection of lighting modules with specified angles. Features:

GlacialTech Inc., today releases the perfect nature-friendly LED path light. The GL-SD30 is a 34W, battery-powered LED flood light and takes an 11-15V/22-30V DC power supply. Batteries can be placed with these LED trail lights or, because of the safety of this low-voltage LED, power-supply cables for the SD30 can be buried in shallow ditches.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation introduced 12.1-inch, wide-XGA color TFT-LCD module with white LED for industrial use.

Luminus Devices Inc., announced that its PT-39 chipset is powering Acer's K11 second generation DLP projector, which is the world’s smallest 200 lm projector. Then the K10 projector, the K11 offers twice the performance in 12.2 x 11.6 mm2, and weight 0.61 Kg. The K11 is compatible with iPhones/iPads, supports USB media sources, High Definition multimedia devices and includes a built-in card reader for fast media sharing.

The ten stadiums that are set to The World Cup in South Africa use Osram products such as high-intensity discharge lamps, T5 and T8 fluorescent lamps and LEDs. And the LED-illuminated arc known as "The Arch" will be the highlight, featuring over 12,000 Golden DRAGON Plus LEDs and spanning the entire Durban stadium.

Christie Digital's modular display solution called MicroTile uses Luminus Devices’ PhlatLight LEDs in its PT-54 chipset. And Luminus Devices’ PhlatLight SBT-16 LED chipset is also used in Samsung’s new H03 Personal Media Player and Instant Projector.

Polaroid, sign a five-year exclusive licensing agreement with AMW LA. Under the terms of the agreement, AMW LA will develop a wide range of Polaroid branded home electronics including standalone and portable LED backlit TVs, home theater systems and DVD and Blu-ray players as well as home theater accessories.

Evonik Industries is exhibiting its high quality SAVOSIL™ silica glass lens at the LED Lighting Taiwan 2010, the 6th International LED Lighting Exposition held in Taipei World Trade Center. It is the first time that Evonik participates in this tradeshow. Evonik Booth No:C216/218

Nichia has issued a public warning about patent infringement, which relate to its Red-Emitting Phosphors. Without Nichia’s authority, CASN phosphor , S-CASN phosphor and LEDs using these phosphors, have been manufactured in large quantities. It expects that these patents will be respected.

LedEngin will showcase its Multi-Color and White High-Power LEDs at Guangzhou International Lighting Exposition in China. LedEngin will be demonstrating the complete line of LEDs, lenses and Lighting products, June 9 – June 12 at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, Guangzhou, China. LedEngin, introducing a 15W, 4-die (7mm x 7mm) package and a 40W, 12-die (9mm x 9mm) package. Available in RGB, RGBA, RGB-White multi-color LEDs and a full range of white LEDs, color temperatures range from 2700K to 6500K.

To increase the reliability of high brightness lamps, Diodes has employed new forms of current control in LED driver ICs. The ZXLD1370 LED driver controller operates in buck, boost and buck-boost topologies. And it uses a new control loop structure and high-side current sensing to ensure accurate current control of LED strings.