The global LED-backlit TV market share didn’t reach the goal of 30% of the LCD TV market in 2010. Following the coming of National Day and the year-end holiday sales in Q410, Taiwan and China LCD TV suppliers started the price war to increase sales volume and gain a head-start in the LED-backlit TV market in the future.

Philips has released the LED TV Econova with a diagonal 42-inch (42PFL6805), reaching a record low - 40 watts in eco-mode. It uses the latest version of LED lighting that reduces energy consumption by 60%. 

According to the Nikkei newspaper, Mitsubishi Chemical will invest 15 billion yen ($175 million) by March 2016 to add equipment to produce materials for light-emitting diode, or LED, lighting. It' said that Mitsubishi Chemical will install a production line at its factory in Ibaragi prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, by fiscal 2012 to start mass production of gallium, nitride substrates for LED.

USA. Lehigh Township Supervisors are considering replacing traditional traffic signal light bulbs with LED lights to save money and energy. According to Supervisor Sandra Hopkins ,the township pays about $816 a month for electricity for its traffic signals, amounting to nearly $10,000 a year. So the township would have to outlay some money to replace the bulbs. The replacement cost would be $23,000," Hopkins said.

Imtra has completed its sixty-four highly-efficient Imtra LED recessed down lights installation at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, America. Its 5.5W and Hatteras 3.2W LED lights were selected to replace 20-watt halogen lights within all of the display cases throughout the Link Gallery exhibit. It's estimated that the Imtra LED fixtures, with their minimum 50,000-hour illumination life, will not require replacement for over thirteen years.

Apple launches its 27-inch LED Cinema Display. The LED display boasts 2560x1440 resolution, a 178-degree viewing angle, and a built-in MagSafe charger. The device connects to computers via a Mini DisplayPort. And there are three USB 2.0 ports on the back.

In china, LED chip makers recently planed to pay for MOCVD equipment about 1,400-1,600 sets, which attract many people in the industry concerned. From the LED supply chain, the upstream companies can got about 70% of profits, and LED chip packaging accounts for about 30%.Most china’s LED industry is in the chip packaging segment, so they wanted to develop epitaxial and LED chip production, and china government also supported that.

American Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS) has honored the "3 Star Supplier Excellence Award" to ON Semiconductor during the annual Raytheon Supplier Excellence Awards. It’s the fifth consecutive year that ON Semiconductor has received this honor.

Recently,Nichia Corporation has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Wilmar Corporation for infringing two Nichia patents directed to white LEDs (U.S. Patents Nos. 5,998,925 and 7,531,960) and two Nichia patents directed to LED chips (U.S. Patents Nos. 5,652,434 and 6,093,965) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Japan Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has raised its blue LED production capacity from 200 million units per month to 340 million units per month at its Chiba site. SDK made a trial run to secure product quality and stable operations after completion of expansion work in July, and has already started commercial operation.

Epistar has become the only Taiwan company, which gets the cross license from Toyoda Gosei .The two companies has made an agreement that both Epistar and Toyoda Gosei(including subsidiaries) can use each other's patents for specific technologies in Group III-V compound semiconductor LEDs, which include InGaN LEDs and AlGaInP LEDs.

Energy Smart Industry (ESI), known for smart and energy efficient lighting solutions, launches special outdoor LED lighting. With the new lighting, people can look forward to get powerful lights for outdoors and can also get to save on their electricity bill. The outdoor lighting retrofitting program offered by the company comes along with a special 5 years all –inclusive protection plan. 

Acuity Brands, a market leader in innovative energy efficient lighting and control solutions, is proud to support the University of Akron in its sustainability, design and energy conservation goals for the University's new Multiplex residence hall. The new residence hall features more than 700 Lithonia Lighting(R) RTLED(TM) luminaires in hallways, study lounges and social lounges.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC's new polycarbonate grade offers high light transmittance and UL flammability rating properties for LED lenses Replacing a long-time fixture isn't easy. But PolyBrite's Borealis® LED (light-emitting diode) lamps featuring Bayer MaterialScience LLC's Makrolon® polycarbonate plastic make it a snap to switch from an energy-sapping incandescent light bulb to energy-efficient, eye-pleasing and impact-resistant LED technology.

JP Sercel Associates, Inc. (JPSA) a leading manufacturer of laser scribing and laser lift-off (LLO) systems for LED production, announced that their 2010 shipments of laser processing systems for LEDs is up 250% in the first 3 quarters of 2010 from 2009 shipments.  The increasing demand for high throughput 266nm front side scribing tools for sapphire, and HB LED wafers is being driven primarily by major Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers.

Diodes Incorporated has designed the SBR1U400P1 super barrier rectifier to increase the efficiency of off-line LED drivers. It can be used in LED light bulbs, lighting ballasts, signage and street lighting. The SBR1U400P1 super barrier rectifier features a forward voltage some 25% lower than standard p-n diode alternatives. This 1A, 400V rated part suits both bridge, with a 120VAC input, and buck stages of driver circuits.

ON Semiconductor has launched a new one-channel Quad-Mode(TM) LED Driver, the CAT3661. With a patented architecture and integrates fault protection and fault diagnostics, the CAT3661 is designed to be used in ultra low power LED applications such as portable handheld medical equipment powered by coin cell batteries with a current of up to 5 mA.

Based on the strong demand for chips, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) expects net profit to rise 40% in 2010, while due to an anticipated chip supply glut, the growth will likely slow in 2011, according to its chairman Morris Chang.

The Dolby PRM-4200 professional reference monitor has used OSRAM Opto Semiconductors' Ceramos MultiLED devices.   OSRAM's 1,536 RGB LED's blue, green and red chips are positioned so that the color combination exhibits the same appearance when viewed from various angles.  

Energy Smart Industry (ESI), one of the leading providers of LED retrofitting, announces LED Retrofit Program for Industrial Lighting. With this new lighting solution the industries can look forward to a noticeable reduction in electricity bills and can enjoy the advantages offered by LED lightings.

It's reported that the Chinese government has invested over10 billion yuan (1.47 billion U.S. dollars) in research and development of green technologies for the 2006-2010 period. Zhang Laiwu, vice minister of science and technology at a press conference in Beijing pointed out that, China had developed key technologies that could cut greenhouse emissions . More than 1.6 million LED lights were being used in 21 cities in a pilot program to promote the use of LED lights, which will save more than 164 million KWH of electricity annually. 

Royal Philips Electronics announced a new light bulb that produces equal light as a 60-watt incandescent with the same energy use as a compact fluorescent but with a much longer life and mercury-free at the Lightfair International tradeshow in Las Vegas.

Panasonic has unveiled a new Viera Pure Line comes with shiny purple, satin silver and silky white, which appears different colors depending of the lighting in the room. They are available in four screen sizes (37", 32", 22" and 19"),the 2 smaller sizes come with a built-in iPod dock, while the 2 larger come with Panasonic's own Viera Cast service (complete with Skype).

Hewlett-Packard released a new 23-inch HP 2310e HD widescreen display. Below are the main specifications: 1. Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 resolution 2. 8,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio 3. 16:9 aspect ratio 4. 250 nits of brightness 5. 5ms on/off response time 6. Displays 70% of the color gamut

Carmanah Technologies Corporation has supplied 52 solar LED flashing beacons to the City of Bethany, Oklahoma to improve the safety of the City's district school zones. And these beacons will be sold by local Carmanah distributor, Gades Sales Inc..   According to Carmanah, the R829 solar LED flashing beacon is designed specifically for school zone applications and features wireless communication between beacons, an easy-to-use calendar program for activation, and maintenance-free operation for up to five years.

Unveils Partnership with Easylite and First Customer Implementation to Usher in a New Era in Cost-Effective, Easy-to-Implement Wireless Lighting Control

Toshiba launched new Cinema Series for 2010 includes the WX800 line of 3D LED HDTVs. The WX800 3D series is compatible with Blu-ray 3D specifications, and requires 3D glasses manufactured by Toshiba. They are available in 55-inch and 46-inch sizes and Toshiba boasts the line as their "most meticulously designed and engineered [HDTV] to date."

Gary Ashburner and Richard Gill join the UK team to strengthen Dialight’s position as a forerunner in the field of industrial LED lighting Dialight , an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, announced two senior appointments who bring between them a combined experience of more than 40 years in LED technology. Together they will oversee the sales in Europe, Asia and the Middle East for the company's growing solid state hazardous area lighting business.

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.(SETI) has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award which is worth of  $475,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop water disinfection units based on solid state deep ultraviolet LEDs. According to the SBIR program, SETI will design, develop, fabricate and demonstrate advanced all-LED water treatment units with reduced power consumption and extended reliability.

Future Electronics has cooperated with Montreal-based McGill University in student engineering projects, which relates to four lighting and renewable energy projects designed by 41 engineering students as part of their senior-year course requirements.   One of the projects won the Mechanical Engineering department's annual Harry Pearce Prize used 48 neutral white LUXEON® Rebel LEDs to illuminate an underground train station platform.