Everlight has released a 3-step MacAdam Ellipse binning of all warm white color temperatures -- 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, and 4000K CCT -- for the Shuen (C06) and Shwo (C19) high power lighting LED series. Everlight’s ‘Smart Binning’ initiative is aimed at reducing the variation in chromaticity in lighting applications. Color consistency is a key determinant of a product’s quality and appeal in lighting applications. This consistency is not only determined by the control of chromaticity from LED to LED inside a product but from one comple...

Taiwan LED manufacrurer FZLED has showcaesed its LED lighting products at the FZTech booth (number T6.5 in Hall 7.2) during the trade show, Interlight Moscow, being held at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow, Russia, November 8-11, 2011. During the show, the company will be highlighting their FZL-DL-06 and FZL-DL-08 ultra-slim, cost effective, and easy to install LED downlights that feature cutting-edge light guiding technology to make illumination gentle, pleasant, and perfectly balanced. Additionally ,the company also show their extremely popu...

Recently, mainland China and Taiwan major LED manufacturers have paid more attention on the strategy to depeen LED development. As we know, China’s  National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced its plans to phase out incandescent lamps within five years, including phasing out incandescent lamps starting with ≥100W by Oct. 2012, then ≥60W by Oct. 2014, and then ≥15W by Oct. 2016,seen as providing important visibility into the nation's burgeoning market for LEDs. For Taiwan major LED manufacturers ,they are pushi...

MINGYAO Department store, located in the central shopping area in Taipei, a Taiwan traditional department store for 23-year old which held a grand reopening on Sep. 23, 2011 after seven months of renovation. The opening of the Uniqlo flagship store coincided with the grand opening in MINGYAO. For the grand reopening of MINGYAO, ARC SSL. has equipped the exceptional lighting fixtures with LED solution in dynamic lighting display. The LED cluster fixtures are installed and provide splendor lightshows in multi-sides with the one control system. ARC...

Last Friday , Everlight has shown its “deeply sorry” for the anxieties it had caused society because of the unpaid leave plan. And it has scrapped the plan . After the company has released its unpaid leave plan,some critics have highlighted the fact that Everlight Chairman Ye Yin-fu’s was recently able to donate NT$100 million to his alma mater, National Taipei University of Technology.They have also questioned the necessity of the furlough plan in light of the company’s profitability. Everlight posted pre-tax profit of NT$538 million for the ...

Recently ,due to the slackened demand in LED industry, including Huga Optotech, Everlight have asked their staffs to carry out unpaid leave. According to Robert Yeh , chairman of Everlight, due to the high inventory level, the LED industry has entered an off season. Everlight staffers will take two to three days of unpaid leave in November and five days in December. The unpaid leave gives Everlight the flexibility to skip a layoff program. In the contrast, Epistar reported that it won’t follow the practice of Everlight. Neither did Chimei-Innolux have the...

Last Friday, Everlight announced that it had defeated Nichia in an administrative suit that it believes will give it an edge in other patent proceedings against the Japanese company. According to Everlight, Taiwan's Supreme Administrative Court upheld a High Administrative Court verdict which ruled that a patent asserted by Nichia related to LED component production technology was invalid. The court agreed with Everlight’s contention that Nichia was not the inventor of the patent and that Everlight had the right to apply the technology covered by the pat...

Taiwan and mainland China have joined force to deepen cross-Taiwan Strait industrial cooperation on LED lighting, TFT-LCD, wireless cities, low-temperature logistics, and electric cars. The two sides have reached an agreement during a meeting between P.K. Chiang, chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation, and Chen Yunlin, chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits in Tianjin on Oct. 20....

Everlight is showing various LED components and LED lighting fixtures at eMEX Exhibition in Suzhou Exhibition Center, China, booth number 3J17 during Oct. 20th to 23th, 2011. This year Everlight represents variety energy saving LED components for mobile, automobile, signage, TFT backlight, infrared, sensor and lighting applications. In addition, the company also shows different lighting fixtures for lighting applications including outdoor area, commercial place, office, storage and home....

GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology maker, GlacialTech Inc., his excited to announce that their display at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair Autumn Edition will feature an exceptional line-up of high-quality and superbly designed LED lighting products for buyers and journalists to see first-hand. Interested parties are invited to visit GlacialLight Booth #5B-F34, Hall 5, from October 27-30, 2011, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to test products, ask questions, and procure GlacialLight's most advanced LED li...

Recently, as being concerned about Taiwan’s leading position may be replaced by South Korea and mainland China, LED specialists from Taiwan’s think tanks, academic institutions, trade organizations and private companies have urged the government to quickly pass laws to offer consumers subsidy for their procurements of LED lamps. South Korea unseated Taiwan in 2009 as the world’s No.2 LED supplier. According to Director General Y.J. Chan of Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratories of the government-backed Industrial Technology R...

Despite of Nichia’s successive patent lawsuits, Everlight will ship its brand products to Japan as scheduled in 2012,according to Everlight’s chairman, Y.F. Ye. Back to early September, Nichia filed a charge against Everlight, alleging that its white LED lamps sold through Japanese retailer Chip On Stop also infringe its No. 4530944 patent. Following closely, Nichia has again claimed that Everlight’s white LED bulbs entering Japan through importer Tachibana Eletech of Japan infringes its No. 4530094 patent, and brought the charge before ...

Recently, Taiwan’s No.1 lamp maker, China Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.,has annonuced to inject US$30 million to form a new company in Xiamen of mainland China to manufacture general lighting fixtures, LED lamps and lithium iron phosphate battery packs. The new company will turn out 200,000 systems of lighting fixture a month in the initial stage mainly for Taiwanese-invested factories and offices in Xiamen. According to China Electric, the new venture will generate revenue up to RMB50 million (US$7.8 million at US$1:RMB6.4) a month in the first operating...

LEDforum, an annual and the largest LED conference in Taiwan, will again bring together the leading manufacturers, materials and component suppliers, technology innovators, and the lighting community. Analysts from LEDinside will share the latest reports on global LED market: both industry trends and market intelligence.

Reportedly, Nichia has filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Everlight again in Tokyo District Court on October 4, 2011. Nichia filed two patent infringement lawsuits in Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tachibana Eletech Co., Ltd. from infringing Nichia's patent (No. 4530094, or "patent No. 094") and to claim damages for the infringement with regard to white LED products (product number: GT 3528 series and 61-238 series) manufactured by Everlight, and imported, sold, etc. by Tachibana....

According to Lextar Electronics’ chairman, David Su, sales from lighting will account for 50% of its revenue next year, up from this year’s 40%,thanks to the strong demand in Japan and the company’s cooperation with an increasing number of multinational lighting markers. In Su’s opinion, the LED lighting market has picked up as a whole especially after Japan devastating earthquake on March 11. Japan is currently the world’s biggest single market for LED lighting. Su noted that recent slump in backlight demands has compelled Lextar to swi...

Reports realease that Lite-On Technology Co., Ltd. will add 20% of revenue to the company’s LED operation in 2012 from least two multinational lighting manufacturers’ LED package contracts. It’s said that the buyers recently visited an LED-epitaxy joint venture Lite-On co-opens with chipmaker Epistar in Changzhou, mainland China to talk over details of the deals. As for the joint venture, Lite-On holds a 30% stake in the US$120 million, which is designed to run a maximum of 60 MOCVD chambers when its expansion is completed next year. Th...

Taiwan’s LED manufacturer EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., recently has ordered AIXTRON CRIUS II-L MOCVD system in a 69x2-inch wafer configuration,for the volume production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) Gallium Nitride (GaN) based blue LEDs. The system was ordered in the second quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011, will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service team in EpiLEDs’ state-of-the-art facility in Tainan, Taiwan. Steve Ku, President of EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., ...

Reportedly, Chip One Stop, Inc. has come to an agreement with Nichia on the patent infringement litigation regarding Nichia's patent No. 4530094 ("patent No. 094") that had been pending in Tokyo District Court by settlement out of court. Chip One has acknowledged that the white LED products (product number: GT 3528 series) manufactured by Everlight and sold by Chip One falls within the scope of the claim of patent No. 094, and agreed to terminate the sale of all white LED products manufactured by Everlight and to respect Nichia's intellectual ...

Accoding to Taiwan major LED manufacture Epistar and Everlight , LED Lighting is likely to play a key role over the next two years. Recently , J.Y. Fan, a vice president of Epistar, said at the SEMI Taiwan 2011, that the oversupply will compel LED makers to shift application emphasis to lighting, which is considered much more profitable as its market remains in the infant stage. Also, excessive supplies have driven down prices of LED devices, thereby reducing production costs of lighting products. Fan’s estimate revised previous thoughts that lighting...

Veeco Instruments Inc, a supplier of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment for light emitting diodes (LEDs) production, celebrated the opening of its new Taiwan Technology Center (TTC) today in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The goal of Taiwan Technology Center is to ensure customer collaboration and enhanced responsiveness to build a long-term strategic partnership with our key Greater China customers. Due to the huge demand for LED and the LED chip investment fever, Veeco would like to provide an up-to-date and adequate service and the suppor...

According to Everlight’s official, the company expects its revenue in the third quarter to fall by 10 percent from the previous quarter amid lower demand, while returning to stronger growth in the fourth quarter on the back of a better lighting and small-size backlight business. The company’s financial data showed that consolidated revenue totaled NT$5.45 billion (US$187.79 million) in the second quarter, up 27.76 percent from the previous quarter, the company’s financial data showed. In contrast, the company’s net profit dropped 7.41 percent from the pr...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO), a leading supplier of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment used to make light emitting diodes (LEDs), celebrated the opening of its new Taiwan Technology Center (TTC) today in Hsinchu, Taiwan to provide process support for the rapidly growing LED industry. Several of Veeco’s key customers in Greater China and important local government officials were among Veeco’s honored guests. At the opening ceremony, John R. Peeler, Veeco’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, &ldq...

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Epistar Corporation, headquartered in Taiwan, has recently qualified the TurboDisc® MaxBright™ gallium nitride (GaN) Multi-Reactor Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for high-volume production of high brightness light emitting diodes (HB LEDs). Ming Jiunn Jou, Ph.D., President of Epistar, commented, “Veeco’s MaxBright Multi-Chamber System enables us to ramp production quickly on the industry’s most productive platform. We will continue ...

Taiwan’s top two LED makers Everlight and Epistar are both concerned about the loss of Taiwan’s LED Industry No.2 rank. Both of the two makers,believe that Taiwan is likely to be unseated by South Korea this year based on the lack of government incentives to consumers of LED lamps. Y.F. Yeh, chairman of Everlight, pointed out that mainland China and South Korea are poised to surpass Taiwan in LED production as a result of government subsidy to LED-lighting consumers. He noted that Taiwan’s LED industry has developed for nearly ...

Taiwan major LED packager Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd., is satisfied with its revenue of NT$513 million (US$17.7 million) in July, up 2%. According to Unity Opto , sales of international TV brands have recovered in the third quarter,despite of the weak demand from LCD backlight modules. The company has seen clear increase of orders for backlighting application from TV makers in August. For shipments of illumination-application LEDs,it have been smooth in the past few months, especially deliveries to Japan. The company expects clear shipment growth in ...

Sources inform that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s LED subsidiary, TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd. , is likely to acquire the GaN-on-Silicon technology recently launched by Bridgelux. Reportely, Bridgelux CEO Bill Watkins stated that the company would work with a well-known chipmaker on LED manufacturing using the latest technology to pare down cost and increase profit. Based on the statement, Taiwan’s press media associated the unspecified chipmaker with TSMC. With Bridgelux’s new technology, LED makers can produce...

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, today reveals a stunning new range of 22-Watt LED Spotlights featuring cutting edge long-lifetime high power Cree LEDs. The PAR38-03 series is a simple money-saving plug-and-play replacement for inefficient traditional lights in E27/E26 sockets. Options include both switch dimmable and non-dimmable versions, with a clear or frosted lens. FZLED's PAR38-03 series is the clear lighting choice for all interior locations with a choice of both a warm white (FZL-PAR38-03-WW-22) and a cool white (F...

Future Lighting Solutions and Philips Lumileds are pleased to announce free seminars throughout Asia, with overviews and demonstrations of illumination grade LEDs. These seminars will provide attendees with hands on demonstrations, and a chance to observe first hand the benefits and cost savings of these revolutionary innovations in lighting technology. Featured will be the new LUXEON A and LUXEON S, which have been hot tested and provide customers with “Freedom From Binning”. “The 2011 LUXEON RoadShow presentations are a great way...

Under the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE), or the International Commission on Illumination, Taiwan is about to strengthen its involvement in global solid state lighting norms and standards following the establishment of two technical committees, the Committee on Photometry of Curved and Flexible OLED and LED Sources and the Committee on Characterization of AC-Driven LED Products for SSL Applications. The establishment of two technical committees marks a milestone in Taiwan's participation in establishing global standards for S...