2024-10-17

Chip war: China claims breakthrough in silicon photonics that could clear technical hurdle

A state-funded lab in China has announced a breakthrough in chip-design technology. - SCMP WUHAN (SCMP): A state-funded semiconductor lab in China said it has achieved a "milestone" in the development of silicon photonics, which could help the country overcome current technical barriers in chip design and achieve self-sufficiency amid US sanctions. JFS Laboratory - based in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province and a national base for photonics research - was able to light up a laser light source integrated with a silicon-based chip, the first tim...
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2012-05-25

OSRAM expands with new LED assembly plant in China

LED plant strengthens the company’s position in the lighting industry’s largest market OSRAM AG has signed a contract with the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee to build a new assembly plant in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the new backend facility starting in late 2013; with the Regensburg and Penang (frontend) plants exclusively continuing to make the actual LED chips. “The new assembly plant will improve our access to the world's largest single market in the lighting industry,” s...
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2011-11-07

SPARK: Participation of the Eighth China-Asean Expo

On October 21, 2011, the Eighth China-Asean Expo was held in Guangxi Nanning exhibition center. Chinese premier Wen jiabao, the prime minister of Malaysia Najibu , Cambodia prime minister hun sen, Burma's vice President Tin Aung Myint , Laos deputy prime minister song access, deputy prime minister of Thailand Auspicious drops le, Vietnam deputy prime minister RuanChunFu attended the exposition, business and investment summit. Asean secretary-general Lin, and China and other Asean countries business, environmental protection, quality inspection, financial, tel...
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2011-08-30

TDG Holding Intends to Inject 360M Yuan in LED Sapphire Substrate Industry

Sources inform that TDG Holding of Haining ,China,has intended to inject 360 million yuan to upgrade a facility that produces four-inch LED sapphire substrate, with annual capacity of 600,000 pieces.   It expects the upgrade to contribute 298.8 million yuan of revenue and yield net profit of 77.323 million yuan annually, for a yield rate of 21.31 percent and an investment return period of 5.94 years. Founded in 1999, TDG Holding started the LED sapphire substrate industry last year.The company also reported yesterday that it plans to spend 19.15 million yuan to ...
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2011-08-25

Lighting Apps Increase LED Usage

LED usage continues to rise across applications and  lighting is leading with a predicted increase of 20 percent  over 2010. According to DisplaySearch, the total package revenue for backlight and lighting applications was $7.2 billion in 2010 and is forecast to reach $12.7 billion in 2014. A heightened demand for LED lighting applications is the main driver of this increase. In 2011, DisplaySearch predicts global LED capacity will reach 180 billion units, and by 2013 will reach 227 billion. The total average LED penetration in lighting was 1.4 percent ...
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2011-07-27

Unilumin is selected as “2011 Guangdong top 500 Enterprises”

July 27, 2011, News conference of “2011 Guangdong top 500 Enterprises Election” was held at conference center of Zhujiang hotel in Guangzhou. The meeting announced the lists of “2011 Guangdong top 500 Enterprises”, “top 100 manufacturing enterprises”,“2011 top 100 service enterprises”, “top 10 self-owned brand of Guangdong province”. With the leading industry scale, business revenue, brand value, public image, etc, Unilumin was selected as “2011 Guangdong top 500 Enterprises”, the total ranking is 34...
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2011-07-01

China SemiLEDs Place an Order for Novellus’s VECTOR(R) LED System

LED equipment manufacturer Novellus Systems has shipped a VECTOR(R) plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system to Xurui Guangdian Co., Ltd. ("China SemiLEDs") for producting SemiLEDs' MvpLED(TM) high-efficiency LED products. With a multi-wafer carrier configuration, the VECTOR LED system can handle all wafer sizes -- 2", 3", 4", 6", 8" and 12" -- with exceptional throughput, film quality and uniformity at each size. In contrast to a traditional PECVD reactor used in LED m...
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