The issue of nuclear energy has been risen up after Japan disaster. Robert Yeh, C.E.O. of Everlight  has show his opinion at the seminar of “1st Economic&Trade between Shanghai and Taiwan”. He indicated instead of building more power plants or looked for the new technology of power created, we should consider “saving power” .For example, if we used LED lights instead of the conventional lights, we can save 5.8 constructions of Sansia Dams in China. It can reduce the waste of the natural resources as well as the emission of CO2. Every country ...

As report goes, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) scheduled to transfer its solar and solid-state lighting businesses into two new subsidiaries. Its LED-based solid-state lighting business will be transferred at a value not exceeding NT$2.8 billion ($96.9 million) to serve as initial paid-in capital for TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd. And its previously-announced solar business will be transferred value not exceeding NT$12.5 billion ($432.8 million) to serve as initial paid-in capital for TSMC Solar Ltd.. TSMC expects the establishme...

Silicon Base Development Inc. (Taiwan), a subsidiary of SemiLEDs Corporation, is again expanding its high power LED portfolio by adding two multiple-chip packages with silicon substrate—S63 and S79. SiBDI’s highly efficient S63/S79 series offers light output options from 400 to 1,000 lumens. The Light Engine can replace incandescent, halogen, and CFL light sources in a variety of applications. These integrated solutions deliver high quality light without pixilation, better color uniformity, and superior lumens output per area - closely replicating the ...

Recently, Everlight has announced its sales revenue of first quarter. Its pretax profits is NT$538 million, or NT$1.28 per share, more than double the earnings of NT$262 million posted a quarter earlier. Thanks to the decline in LED prices helping to boost downstream packagers’ gross profit rates generally, the gross profit rate improved to 25% from 20%. The firm expects a double-digit revenue growth, with the gross profit rate to keep trending upward to between 25% and 28%. However, its sales revenue for the first quarter declined 4.28% from a quarter earlier t...

Aixtron’s latest Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD platform system, the CRIUS II, has supported the Chi Mei Group for mass production, outperforming expectations as to process stability, uniformity, and throughput. Chi Mei has installed the 55x2-inch wafer configuration CCS CRIUS II and became the first customer in Taiwan to receive this new system. The CRIUS II can easily be tuned to the optimum performance and can further be converted from 2- to 4-, 6-inch or larger wafer size production. Compared to the CRIUS, the CRIUS ...

FZLED announces expansion plans and new website   FZLED, a sub-division of the thermal and metal products manufacturer FZTech Inc., is announcing their plans to enter multiple international markets around the world and begin offering several lines of high-performance LED products to consumers. Receiving ISO-9001:2008 certification in November, 2010, FZLED is already turning heads with their innovative products like their newly released on/off switch dimming T8 LED Tube Lights. FZLED's newly designed website: //www.FZLED.com.tw is now...

Recently, Sino American Silicon Products is reported to divide its semiconductor and LED departments into two independent companies  named as “Huanchiu Wafer “and “Sapphire Technology”  ,completely owned by the company, which will retain its core photovoltaic business.The base day for the split is set on October 1. And the two new companies will apply for listing their shares on the domestic bourse within one year. Opposite to the trend of merger in the local PV industry, the spin-off will transform the structure of Sino American into ...

Taiwan Epistar has ordered Aixtron G5 HT reactors in a 14x4-inch configuration for high brightness LEDs. Aixtron G5 HT reactor is a further endorsement of G5´s very rapid time-to-production and excellent system-to-system reproducibility. Ming-Jiunn Jou, President of Epistar, was please with the new reactors and thought that it will form the backbone of their planned capacity expansion for their high brightness LED production program. It’s said that the systems are delivered in the first and second quarter of 2011. Aixtron´s local support tea...

TESS (Top Energy Saving System Corp.), a leading LED lighting developer and manufacturer in Taiwan, has a debut on Taiwan's emerging stock market on April 20, 2011 and reveals two remarkable high efficiency LED bulbs to market: one is 20 watt 2000 lumen LED bulb and the other is 20 watt dimmable LED bulb. This new 20 watt 2000 lumen LED bulb is cool white version with small size and high lumen output and presents a superior luminous efficiency of 100lm/W. The other 20 watt dimmable LED bulb is warm white version and has a CRI of 90 that can accurately ...

Currently, Taiwan’s LED lamp makers take an active part in contracting with 7-Eleven of Japan’s plan to offer LED lamps instead of traditional lamps at all of its stores in the districts that connect to electrical grids run by the Tokyo Electrical PowerCo. The chain which estimates the LED lighting project to save around a quarter of electricity spending in the quarter from July this year will cost about 10 billion yen to outfit 5,000 of its stores. Taiwan’s LED-lamp makers including Ledtech Electronics Co., Ltd., Genesis Photonics Inc., ...

Recently, Taiwan`s Chimei Group has announced the firm`s "Brand 133" plan, expecting to take the lead in market share in Taiwan, achieve revenue growth of over 30% and overseas sales exceeding 30% as well as generate revenue of NT$6 billion (US$200 million) this year. According to the company, it aims to sell 200,000 CHIMEI brand LCD TVs, in which LED-backlighting models will account for over 50%. Chimei targets to sell 800,000 CHIMEI LCD monitors this year, including 540,000 units globally and 260,000 units in Taiwan, and is also developin...

GlacialLight has released the CETL certification of their BR30 & BR40 TRIAC-dimmable and non-dimmable Canopus Series of LED bulbs. The LED bulbs are designed to fit E26/E27 sockets and come in two separate models: one for low voltage (90-132V) applications and one for high voltage (180-264V) applications. They are available with or without, TRIAC dimming functionality and are designed for easy installation, long lifetimes of at least 35,000 hours, and high power efficiency. These products can provide users with a three-year warranty. Comply wi...

Due to the Japan post-quake reconstruction, Japanese LED-lighting suppliers have increased orders from Taiwan`s manufacturers. According to Unity Opto Technology Chairman C.H. Wu , the company`s Japanese customers have recently notified it of preparing LED light bulbs for them, which will make the company`s bulb shipments to increase in late April and May. it’s estimated that Japan`s increased orders will boost the company`s sales for the second quarter by 30% from the first quarter. And Delta Electronics is also supplying contract products to Hitachi. T...

It’s said that Everlight’s 3W Shuen LED series has received third place in the 2011 Product of the Year optoelectronics category judged by readers of Elektronik magazine, one of Germany’s premier electronics publications.   Elektronik annually nominates more than 100 products in 10 separate electronics categories.  The publication’s readers then choose their preferred products and cast their votes for Product of the Year. With innovative slim package, high luminosity and high power, Everlight’s 3W Shuen LED device finally def...

ChiMei Innolux Corp has showcased 3.2- and 3.5-inch OLED panels for smartphones and mobile phones at FPD China 2011, which was held from March 15 to 17, 2011, in Shanghai, China. With the method of using a white OLED material and red, green, blue and white color filters has been developed by LG Display Co Ltd and Eastman Kodak Co. ,the pixel counts of the 3.2- and 3.5-inch panels are 320 x 480 and 360 x 640, respectively. The number of subpixels per pixel increases by one-third. The brightness and contrast ratio of the 3.2- and 3.5-inch panels are 300cd/m2...

SemiLEDs Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS), a developer and manufacturer of LED chips and LED components, announced the introduction of the new I-Do™ LED, an innovative new chip that will be featured in SemiLEDs’ ultra high brightness LED product portfolio. I-Do is the second generation of the I-Core AK™ series of LEDs from SemiLEDs, which are designed to provide further improvements in brightness, reliability and overall efficiency. The I-Do LED features a new design with advantages in improved reliability, optimization of cu...

According to institutional investors, based on the Japanese government will focus more on use of renewable energy and LEDs after the destructive catastrophe, Taiwanese LED industry may benefit from Japan`s post-earthquake reconstruction . Due to the massive earthquake and the recent nuclear power crisis in Japan, it’s likely to concentrate on the use of renewable energy and green products. It’s estimated that the post-earthquake reconstruction will cost the country several trillion Japanese yen and LEDs will be increasingly needed in Japan. As a result, T...

Everlight has released a statement that, the devastating earthquake in Japan so far does not have noticeable impact on its supply chain. Its global sales continue to operate normally. Going forward, it willclosely monitor the situation with suppliers to ensure a stable demand fulfillment.  ...

The GlacialPower LED driver enhances lumen and life performance GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce the newly innovated GlacialPower LED driver that enhances lumen and power-saving performances, making available more compatible, more efficient and more reliable LED lighting products. The GlacialPower LED driver is already in use on GlacialLight's MR16 and AR111 LED bulbs. GlacialLight's R&D team has developed the GlacialPower LED driver to eliminate the ne...

-Featuring LED Panel Lights and Innovative LED Drivers- GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., extends an invitation to all business and media partners around the world to attend their display (Booth #D716, Hall 1) at the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS), to be held at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan, March 18-21, 2011. Event: Taiwan International Lighting Show Venue: Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan Exhibition Date: March 18-21, 2011 GlacialLight B...

March 2011 Taipei, Taiwan: Strong interest, growth and innovation are spotlighted everywhere at TiLS2011, Taiwan’s largest lighting show that shines from March 18 to 21 at TWTC Exhibition Hall 1. Success at this event, in its second year, is guaranteed with the coupling up of TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) and Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) to organize TiLs (the Taiwan International Lighting Show). With Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy, AMKO SOLARA, Taiwan-N Lighting, LEDTECH, Wellypo...

Currently, twenty Taiwanese organizations have set up an alliance to develop wide bandgap electronics devices, including SiC and GaN compound semiconductors, for use in high-power electronics applications as electric cars and LEDs. Based on the professions, alliance members are divided into groups to develop substrate materials, epitaxy wafers, devices, modules and inspection technologies. The alliance projects to roll out application modules of these wide bandgap semiconductors, whose electronic band gaps are larger than one or two electronvolts (eV). They plan to complet...

FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, is pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at the 2011 Taiwan International Lighting Show from March 18-21, 2011 at the Taipei World Trade Center. Buyers, media, and the general public are all welcome to visit FZLED's booth (Hall 1, Booth #: A1311 & 1312) and view the company's innovative LED lighting solutions. FZLED's booth will be featuring their one-of-a-kind LED tube lights that are equipped with a dimming function controlled by standard on/off switches. FZLED will ...

Recently, Taiwan-based LED wafer and chip manufacturer Tekcore Co Ltd has installed two VaporStation Central Delivery Systems from Dow Electronic Materials of Philadelphia, PA, USA (a business unit of Dow Advanced Materials) in its LED manufacturing area. Presently, Tekcore is running the first tool in production to deliver trimethylgallium (TMG) to multiple epitaxial growth reactors. In addition, the second delivery system, Dow’s new patent-pending, third generation of the VaporStation Central Delivery System, has also been installed at T...

Lextar Electronics ("Lextar" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 3698) today announced its preliminary consolidated February 2011 revenue of NT$ 540 million, up by 12.2% from the previous month and a YoY growth of 50.4%.   Sales Report :(Unit: NT$ million) (1)     Consolidated numbers include Lextar Electronics Corp. and Lextar Electronics (Suzhou) Corp.  ...

Reportedly, Taiwan LED manufacturer Unity Opto Technology, is expected to become a major supplier of LEDs for backlight modules to a Chinese TFT-LCD panel maker, Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology. Unity Opto will build a new plant in Beijing in April, with the new LED facility expected to have a monthly capacity of some 200 million LEDs by the end of 2011. In addition, it has also begun shipping LEDs to another major Chinese TFT-LCD panel maker TCL.  ...

According to Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, it has made a partnership with Oxford Instruments PLC, a U.K.-based high-tech tool systems company, to set up a research center for LED, which will focus on wafer-level packaging processes and integrated micro-structure technologies for high-brightness LEDs. ITRI President Shyu Jyuo-min pointed out that “With Taiwan’s most advanced Microelectromechanical Systems Open lab, ITRI will provide the best research and development capability in the field of LED packaging.”...

Nanjing City Mayor Ji Jianye on his Taiwan visit,announced that the city has developed a long-term cooperation on eco-friendly energy and lighting technologies with Taiwan`s Lite-On Group to address the city`s needs for the products for public-work projects set in mainland China`s 12th Five-Year Development Plan. As part of the cooperation, Nanjing, has contracted the group to supply LED streetlights to replace traditional lights....

Taiwan LED chip maker Ubilux has placed an order from Aixtron for two CRIUS II deposition systems in the 55x2-inch configuration to expand the company’s production capacity for GaN-based HB LEDs. It’s said that Ubilux placed this order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered in the first quarter of 2011....

AIXTRON SE has announced a new MOCVD reactor order from existing customer Ubilux of Tainan County, Taiwan. The order is for two AIXTRON CRIUS® II deposition systems in the 55x2-inch configuration which will be used to expand the company’s production capacity for GaN-based HB LEDs. Ubilux placed the order in the fourth quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered in the first quarter of 2011. A local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactors at the state of the art clean-room facilities housed in the Ubilux headqu...