According to the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) and Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), Taiwan International Lighting Show 2011 will be held March 18 to 21 at the Taipei World Trade Center.   It will cover lighting for household, commercial, industrial, office and outdoor applications, as well as LED technology, parts and accessories, control systems, manufacturing equipment and instrument sections.

Taiwan Automotive Research and Testing Center (ARTC) released several proprietary LED lamps for Harley Davison motorcycles and another for general sedans. With the help of auto-lamp designer Mycarr Lighting Technology Co., the Harley Davison LED headlamp is equipped with four three-watt LED bulbs, producing up to 280 lumens of dipped beam at six watts and 560 lumens of main beam at 12 watts, bringing energy savings of more than 80% compared with halogen lamps.

Taiwan's No.1 LED chipmaker Epistar has intended to team up with China Electronics Corp. (CEC) to build a joint venture.The investment is achieved to US$70 million by Epistar, and it's considered to be Epistar's biggest investment case in the mainland in recent years.

Ludhiana, the city of India, will be the first city of the state to have LED streetlights. Energy saving companies (ESCOs) has invited tenders to light up major cities with LEDs, starting from Ludhiana and then Bathinda.   Under the ESCOs mode, the firms set up the project and recover costs from the energy saved, which is usually 50 to 60 per cent.  

SavWatt USA introduced a new 60 Watt Eco-Pole LED Street Light and Parking Lot Light powered by a patent pending unique Wind Turbine and Solar panels.   The SavWatt Eco-Pole enables to take the place of a traditional 250 watt metal halide light and requires no grid hook-ups, saving 100 percent of the energy costs, maintenance and pollution associated with the energy used to power a traditional light.

Japan Renesas Electronics Corporation launched new control IC (μPD168891) for automotive LED headlights. Below are the main specifications: (1) an integrated current-control function for constant-current drive of LEDs and a pre-driver function for driving external metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs); (2) integrated protection functions essential for automotive applications, including LED current and external MOSFET overcurrent protection;

China-based company Tongfang has ordered two AIX 2800G4 HT 42x2-inch configuration deposition systems from AIXTRON. It's reported that Tongfang has placed the order during Q1 of 2010 and after delivery in Q3 of 2010, they will be used for GaN ultra-high brightness blue LED production. The local AIXTRON support team will be responsible for the installation and commissioning of the new reactors at the dedicated Tongfang production plant.

Malaysian SMT LED manufacturer DOMINANT has designed RGB SPNovaLED (NMRTB-WSG) of its SPNovaLED series, to replace the NMRTB-USD device. The RGB SPNovaLED is capable of driving each chip in the package individually to mix and match any requested color even white; to provide balanced lighting distribution. Additionally, with an operating current of 250mA this LED features a typical luminous intensity of 9000mcd for Red, 12,000mcd for True Green and 4000mcd for Blue.

Power supply maker FSP Technology September revenues went up NT$1.553 billion (US$50.525 million), making its 3Q revenues to NT$4.482 billion to set a new quarterly record. And the strong results would keep conservative about the current quarter since most orders have been received in short term. FSP had an extensive portfolio ranging from applications in desktops, notebooks, industrial PCs, servers, LCD TV and monitors, STBs, health care, communications and LED lighting.

Backlight unit (BLU) Radiant Opto Electronics September revenues has been up 23.93% from 2009 to NT$4.248 billion (US$136.86 million) for 2010, and the first three quarters in 2010 revenues totaled NT$12.607 billion, up 3% sequentially.

Affected from inventory adjustment in the LCD TV segment, most Taiwan LED companies’ September revenues, included Everlight, Bright, Harvatek, and Lextar, had been lower compared to in August.

Hi Score Corporation has recently offered 510 Energy Saving EcoGreenBulb T5 Retrofit Kits to replace 1020 T8 fluorescent bulbs in the stairwells and facilities rooms of Trump Tower One in Sunny Isles, Florida.   The conversion will reduce the energy required to light these areas by more than 50%.  

A multi-topology LED driver ZXLD1374 has designed by Diodes Incorporated , to increase the performance of high brightness automotive, industrial and commercial lighting systems.   With the integrated 60V power MOSFET switch, the ZXLD1374 LED driver can produce a maximum LED current of 1.5A.

Thanks to amid vendors actively replenishing inventory and launching promotions ahead of schedule to boost market demand, Amtran Technology reported September revenues had been up 22.2% sequentially to NT$5.53 billion (US$180.06 million) and 4.1% compared for 2009.Revenues for 3Q had totaled NT$15.2 billion, up about 5% sequentially. In September, LED-backlit LCD TV shipment share increased from 12% in the first half of 2010 up to 20% of its total shipments, overall flat-panel TV shipments in 3Q reached 1.05-1.1 million units.

Sweden nanowire semiconductor LED developer GLO AB has closed an SEK 170 million investment round (approximately USD 25 million), and set up a California-based engineering center to supplement its current efforts in Sweden and Denmark.

Acuity Brands has completed a pilot outdoor LED lighting project, which uses its Holophane(R) brand of luminaires to bring energy savings and sustainability to the scenic campus of Anderson University, Indiana.

ANC Sports Enterprises will debut two 10mm light emitting diode (LED) dasherboard displays at Joe Louis Arena when the Detroit Red Wings open the National Hockey League season against the Anaheim Ducks tonight.

Taiwan's Alliance Optotek Corporation (AOP) has installed 144 modularized LED street lights in the Chinese city of Dongguan Songshan Lake, marking the first project using AOP'S new energy-saving ARTEMIS street light series.

Home Depot schedules to sell a Philips LED bulb which now called the 12-watt EnduraLED, to replace the common 60-watt incandescent.   According to representatives from Philips and Home Depot , the bulb will be available by the beginning of December and will cost between $40 and $50.  

It's reported that a new 4000K CCT ANSI binned part has been added to LUXEON Rebel product portfolio by Philips Lumileds. At the same time, Philips Lumileds has also raised the top flux bin for its cool and neutral white LUXEON Rebel by 20%.   The new part delivers improved color rendering and tight binning to simplify luminaire designers' engineering efforts.  

Diodes Incorporated announced a multi-topology LED driver designed to increase the performance of high brightness automotive, industrial and commercial lighting systems. Operating in buck, boost and buck-boost modes, the ZXLD1374 LED driver's integrated 60V power MOSFET switch is capable of producing a maximum LED current of 1.5A. The IC uses high-side current sensing and patent pending control loops to achieve high accuracy current control of LED strings.

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the availability of its new control IC (part number PD168891) for automotive light-emitting diode (LED) headlights.  

TYNTEK 4W MR16 has special designed reflectors with efficient focusing properties and extremely tight beam angles of 30° for high center beam luminance of at least 1700lux. The concept of reflective MR16 is from automotive headlamp. TYNTEK MR16 uses only 1 CREE LED, which is mounted on the back of the heat dissipation bar and emit toward the reflector.

At the 7TH CHINA SSL in Shenzhen, China (October 14 – October 16, 2010) Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a global provider of Process Equipment technology will have a booth at Hall 9, booth No. 507-509. 

Growth, accelerated photosynthesis and energy savings with Everlight's LED Agriculture Lighting Fixtures - "GL-Flora"

AIXTRON AG announced an order from ETH Zurich for a Black Magic Plasma Enhanced CVD system to be installed at the Nanotechnology Center in Ruschlikon, Switzerland. The Nanotechnology Center is a unique, public private partnership between IBM Research and ETH Zurich. The new system, used for single wall carbon nanotube deposition, is 6-inch in configuration and will be commissioned by the local AIXTRON support team in the first quarter of 2011.

Valeo is fitting full-LED headlights on the ZB10 RENAULT and SEAT IBE concept cars exclusively presented at the Paris Motor Show. With their low energy consumption, equivalent to 85% of traditional headlamps, LEDs are perfect for electric vehicles because they increase their range, and they reduce fuel consumption by around 0.2 litres per 100 km for internal combustion engine vehicles.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that third quarter 2010 financial results will be distributed after the market closes on Monday, October 25, 2010. A conference call reviewing these results has been scheduled for 5:00pm ET that day at 1-877-591-4956 (toll free) or 1-719-325-4772 using passcode 8848728.

During the past few years, there was an expectation in the industry for LED to replace all traditional lighting; therefore the projection of the market size was huge. For example, there are 800,000 units of mercury vapor street lamps in Taiwan that needed to be replaced. Taking into account the high pressure sodium lamps, more than 1.5million lamps have yet to be replaced, in Taiwan alone.