2014-08-08

Hot Picks of the Week Aug. 4-8

New market rumors in Taiwan confirm again limited usage of sapphire cover glass in the upcoming iPhone 6. A report from Chinese-language Liberty-Times report this week boldly placed sapphire cover glass usage to 10 percent. Across the globe more countries are signing up to LED streetlight upgrades including Detroit and several boroughs and councils in UK. The DOE has also released its latest findings for theatrical lighting this week. As for new products to watch out for this week, a new startup LightFreq is trying to integrate HD audio speakers into color tunable Hue like bulbs. The company so far claims the sound quality is better than Beats Pill, but we all know Beats is overrated when it comes to sound quality.
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Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and Blizzard Lighting LLC (‘Blizzard’) today announced that they have reached a mutually beneficial settlement resolving a patent infringement dispute involving Cree LED’s p... READ MORE

ALLOS Semiconductors of Germany and Ennostar Corporation of Taiwan today announced a strategic partnership to bring 200 mm GaN-on-Si (gallium nitride on silicon) LED epiwafers for microLED applications into volume production. This collaboration r... READ MORE