2023-03-13

Final victory of Nichia against Everlight in German enforcement proceeding

On February 8, 2023, the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal (docket number I-15 W 3/23) confirmed the first instance enforcement decision of the Düsseldorf District Court in favor of Nichia Corporation (“Nichia“) and dismissed the appeal raised by Taiwanese LED manufacturer Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. and its German subsidiary Everlight Electronics Europe GmbH (both “Everlight”). This decision is final and cannot be appealed anymore by Everlight. The decision is of major importance in relation to Nichia's damage compensatio...
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2023-03-08

CONEXPO 2023: HELLA presents new lighting solutions for construction machinery and mining vehicles

Introducing the New C240 LED combination headlamp from HELLA with exceptional design for heavy-duty applications Smart lighting solutions increase operator safety, health and productivity All-round talent: Second generation of the RokLUME 280N work light with six illumination variants Lippstadt, 2 March 2023. Lighting and electronics expert HELLA, operating under the FORVIA umbrella, will present several innovative new products at CONEXPO. The world's leading construction and mining machinery trade fair will take place in Las Vega...
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2023-03-08

Avicena partners with ams OSRAM to enable high-volume future production of ultra-low energy chip-to-chip interconnects

San Diego, CA — March 6, 2023 — AvicenaTech Corp., a privately held company in Sunnyvale, CA, has partnered with ams OSRAM to develop high-volume manufacturing of GaN microLED arrays for its industry-leading LightBundle™ communication architecture. The need for next generation computing power is here, driven by strong AI/ML and HPC application demand – for products like ChatGPT, DALL-E, autonomous vehicle training, and many others. Attempts to scale current architectures are running headlong into physical limits leading to slow...
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2023-03-06

Pier59 Studios Debuts Virtual Production LED MegaWall At NYFW Opening

NEW YORK -- Opening in February 2023, Pier59 Studios’ Virtual Production will usher in a new era of groundbreaking video production capability while offering unsurpassed creative flexibility. Leveraging recent advances in LED displays, Pier59 Studios has constructed the world’s largest and most advanced Virtual Production stage for fashion and advertising. This disruptive technology utilizes real-time computer-generated imagery (CGI) to create digital environments and special effects that are captured simultaneously with live-action props and actors...
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2023-03-06

Future Hyundais May Have an LED Display Inside Their Grilles

South Korean automaker Hyundai may be working on adding an LED display into the grille of one of its upcoming vehicles. The leak comes from a thread on a Texas Instruments forum first spotted by a Reddit user. The thread was posted by an individual who identified Hyundai as the end customer for a particular project: a full-color LED matrix display meant to be used on the front grille of a vehicle. The leak should come as little surprise given that Hyundai has already shown its interest to build both an in-grille intelligent lighting system and LED display. While it...
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2023-03-03

LG Display to Pump up Efforts to Win More Automotive Display Orders

LG Display has begun to upgrade its business structure by focusing on displays for vehicles. According to Hi Investment & Securities on Feb. 22, LG Display's vehicle display sales are expected to more than double from 1.6 trillion won in 2022 to 3.5 trillion won in 2025. Its automotive display order intake in 2022 is estimated at more than 4 trillion won, an increase of about 40 percent from 2021. In particular, the proportion of organic light emitting diode (OLED) orders in its total orders increased from 30 percent in 2021 to 45 percent in 2022. This is...
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2023-03-03

“Red, Green, Blue into one”... Lumens developed ‘RGB one-chip’ monolithic micro-LED

Implemented on a single epitaxial wafer Reducing the transfer process by one-third Reducing costs and increasing productivity Targeting the promotion of commercialization the TV/XR market A technology that can dramatically increase the utilization and productivity of micro light emitting diode (LED) has been developed in Korea. It is gaining much attention on whether the popularization of micro-LED will be accelerated, which has been making slow progress due to technical difficulties. Lumens announced on the 24th that they have developed a Monolithic...
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2023-03-02

Lumentum 200G PAM4 EMLs Honored by 2023 Lightwave Innovation Reviews

First-to-Market Laser Transmitters for Next-Generation Data Center Applications Receive Another Industry Win SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumentum Holdings Inc. ("Lumentum"), a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products, announced today that its 200G PAM4 externally-modulated lasers (EMLs) were recognized by the 2023 Lightwave Innovation Reviews. An esteemed and experienced panel of judges from the optical communications community recognized Lumentum as a high-scoring honoree. I...
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2023-03-02

Absen advances with the future of MicroLED

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroLED is the technology set to take LED display into the future. Smaller and more robust than traditional LED, MicroLED confers exponential advancements and improvements to LED display. As an innovation leader, well respected for its extensive R&D commitment, Absen has actively developed IMD and COB technologies since 2016 and recently launched its new MicroLED KLCOB series globally. Absen's industry product director, Christian Czimny has an extensive understanding of the LED ...
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2023-03-01

MicroLED Innovator Opens New State-of-the-Art Facility

Hsinchu, Monday 20th February 2023: Porotech, the global leader in microLED and Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology, celebrated the opening of its new facility in Hsinchu. Porotech developed its new trademarked technology, DynamicPixelTuning® (DPT®), for microLEDs, using its proprietary PoroGaN material, which enables a single microLED chip to produce any visible colour from a single pixel, including a brilliant white light. This development is a game-changer for the display industry at large. By removing the need for red-green-blue (RGB...
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2023-02-24

Signify launches new Philips StoreFlow retail lighting, Interact Retail hybrid lighting controls, and range of luminaires made from waste materials

The revolutionary new Philips StoreFlow for shopping aisles is the first ever retail luminaire with a housing made of more than 68% bio-based plastics, with proprietary optics that cast the light exactly where it's needed, and the latest LED engine with the highest efficacy Presenting the first hybrid lighting control system for wired and wireless controllable LED luminaires that allows stores to switch to a dimmable lighting concept more easily than ever before and capture unparalleled energy savings Introducing a range of luminaires made from waste materials, red...
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2023-02-24

Mercedes-Benz shares details of new OS, doubles down on Luminar’s lidar technology

Mercedes-Benz announced multiple newsworthy innovations during its Operating System Strategy Update in Sunnyvale, California earlier today. The German automaker announced it is building its own proprietary operating system called MB.OS which will offer features like navigation and maps from Google. Additionally, Mercedes announced it is expanding upon a previous partnership with lidar specialist Luminar in a new multi-billion dollar deal to integrate the tech by mid-decade. First things first. Earlier today, Mercedes-Benz announced plans to develop its own operati...
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2023-02-24

LED Lighting Systems Increase Crop and Revenue Growth in Horticulture While Cutting Costs

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA), energy costs are the third most considerable expense for most growers in today’s agriculture and horticulture sectors. Lighting for greenhouses is a significant contributor to those energy costs. Luckily, today’s technology advancements in LED systems are improving energy efficiency and in turn cost savings, while also creating bigger yields per plant and producing more marketable crops. Research in several horticulture markets shows significant savings when using LED lighting systems. One company o...
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2023-02-24

MIT stacks LEDs vertically for high-resolution digital screens

Vertical multicolored micro-LED allows smaller pixels and higher pixel density. Upright position: vertical pixels A project at MIT has developed a possible new route to sharper defect-free displays, by stacking the light emitting diodes into vertical multicolored pixels. Although the size of conventional LED pixels has been consistently reduced over recent years, they are reaching a point where the small size can affect their performance, according to MIT. This is particularly true for displays designed to sit close to the viewer's eyes, such as those in aug...
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2023-02-24

Kulicke & Soffa Expanding Competencies and Market Presence

Successful Acquisition of Advanced Jet Automation Co., Ltd. SINGAPORE, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLIC) ("Kulicke & Soffa", "K&S", "we" or the "Company") announced today that it has acquired Advanced Jet Automation Co., Ltd. ("AJA"), including the material business and assets formerly owned by its affiliate, Samurai Spirit Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-precision micro-dispensing equipment and solutions in Taiwan. T...
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2023-02-23

ams OSRAM’s OSLON® cutting edge technology in horticulture lighting is used by Revolution Microelectronics to light up GreenCare Collective’s new futuristic facility

Using OSRAM’s OSLON® Square platform and OSLON® SSL LEDs, Revolution Microelectronics has created a state-of-the-art lighting system, Avici. Avici, based on the OSLON® Square platform powers GreenCare Collective’s 9,200 sqm facility in Millbury, Massachusetts, USA. Premstaetten, Austria and Munich, Germany (20 February 2023) -- ams OSRAM (SIX: AMS), a global leader in optical solutions, today announced a horticulture lighting collaboration using the OSLON® Square platform and OSLON® ...
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2023-02-23

Cree LED’s Three New High-Brightness LEDs Improve Large-Format Video Displays

Cree LED’s new High Brightness LEDs are optimized for large-format, high-resolution video screen applications. (Photo: Business Wire) February 08, 2023 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cree LED, Inc. (“Cree LED”), an SGH company (Nasdaq: SGH), today announces the availability of three surface mount diode (SMD) LEDs optimized for large-format, high-resolution video screen applications. These new LEDs provide enhanced performance for all types of large-format displays req...
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2023-02-23

JBD has made a major breakthrough in R&D technology, helping Smart Glasses lead the consumer market

As the world's leading micro-display manufacturer, JBD has built complete lines for MicroLED micro-display development by possessing independent IC design, MOCVD epi growth, hybrid-integration technology, packaging, testing, driver design and optical modules. With tremendous technology investment, JBD continues to innovate and rapidly grow into a benchmark enterprise in the rising display industry. Red MicroLED renews the brightness record with 750K nits! AlGaInP is the most mature semiconductor material for red LEDs. It is widely adopted in commerc...
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2023-02-22

Sansi Showing Cutting-edge Display Technology with Strong Lineup of Products at ISE2023

From January 31th to February 3rd, 2023, the much-anticipated 2023 Integrated Systems Europe (ISE2023) was held in Barcelona, Spain. As an industry-renowned manufacturer amd provider of LED display products and system solutions, Shanghai Sansi participated in ISE2023 with latest scientific and technological achievements, and together with more than 1,000 LED display industry colleagues from all over the world, jointly demonstrated the world's cutting-edge display technology. Sansi showcased products such as VEII COB fine-pitch (P0.9) display, intelli...
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2023-02-22

Seoul Viosys Showcases the World’s First One-Chip Micro-LED Display Technology at ISE 2023 in Barcelona, Spain

ANSAN, South Korea – Seoul Viosys (“SVC”) (KOSDAQ: 092190), a globally recognized optical semiconductor element manufacturer, will attend ‘Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2023,’ the biggest display expo in Europe, held in Barcelona, Spain on January 31, 2023, in order to exhibit micro-LED displays based on the world’s best WICOP Pixel technology. Seoul Viosys has succeeded in improving the brightness of micro-LED displays to 4,000 nits via WICOP Pixel technology. This is deemed to be the highest level in ...
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2023-02-22

Built to last. The secrets to UDM’s reliability.

Last week you were able to witness the new UDM-4K30’s outstanding quality and visual performances at ISE2023. (Here’s a recap, if you missed it.) But what really makes the Barco UDM flagship projectors a great investment, is their reliability in mission-critical live set-ups and challenging environments. So, in this week’s post, Alexis will unravel some of the secrets to the UDM’s smart and robust design. Lasers are your best friend In the past two decades, Barco has made the choice to focus on solid-state laser light sources for its...
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2023-02-22

AOTO Showcased Innovative LED Solutions at ISE 2023

2023, January 31- Barcelona, Spain, ISE 2023, the world's largest and most professional audio-visual integration technology exhibition has formally kicked off. AOTO is at booth 3A850 showcasing a full line of upgraded technologies and integrated solutions, which include XR studio and virtual production solutions, digital signage displays, sports displays, and newly released outdoor advertisement products. 2023 marks not only the 30th anniversary of the founding of AOTO but also the 18th time that the company has taken part in the ISE. XR Immersive Virtual Stud...
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2023-02-21

AOTO Madede an Advance Progress in Micro-LED-Based Display Technologies

On the 31st of January, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain - At the ISE2023 show, AOTO presented Micro LED P0.3, which is one of AOTO's most cutting-edge innovations and represents one of the most advanced technologies overall. Three years ago, AOTO introduced Micro LED P0.4 and set a new benchmark for the fine pixel pitch of direct display large screen, with true color, and had a significant impact on the industry. Three years later, on the basis of Micro LED P0.4, AOTO launched Micro LED P0.3, which transformed the design of the LED structur...
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2023-02-21

LianTronics “The WOW” 3D Solution Makes a Statement at ISE 2023

As one of the earliest manufacturers to deploy Mini LEDs & Micro LEDs, LianTronics successfully developed IMD-packaged Vmini Display Technology for
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2023-02-21

LG Cinema LED Screen ‘LG Miraclass’ Brings Immersive Viewing Experience to Theaters

Company’s New Cinema Screen Brand, LG Miraclass Leverages LED Technology to Take the Big Screen Viewing Experience to New Heights LG Miraclass installed at Odeon Multicines theater in Vilanova SEOUL, Feb. 9, 2023 — LG Electronics (LG) announced the launch of its new LED screen brand for cinemas, LG Miraclass. Ideal for theater operators eager to present moviegoers with new, premium services and immersive viewing experiences, LG’s latest lineup of LED screens delivers realistic images with natural colors and deep bla...
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2023-02-21

DOMINANT added in a NEW 0.5W RGB into the SpicePlus 3030 Multi Color Family

In recent years, RGB utilization in automotive industry is growing rapidly due to the rise of electric vehicle (EV) & dynamic ambient lighting requirement. Therefore, 3 x 0.5W automotive grade RGB LED, S6RTB-EHG is added into the SpicePlus 3030 Multi Color family, allowing users to have more options in power & brightness selection to suit various RGB applications. With a small package size, S6RTB-EHG has high brightness of Red typ 24lm, True Green typ 40lm and Blue typ 8lm at drive current of 150mA which is suitable for high luminance autom...
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2023-02-20

OSRAM DS is the world's first company to present LED drivers made from 80 % recycled plastic

Encouraging the use of resource-saving production materials is a key social objective – and also an important economic objective for OSRAM DS. Not only does it have a positive impact on our environmental balance – it also improves the products’ acceptance by our customers. When developing new products, we therefore attach particular importance to maximum sustainability right from the start. The LED drivers we developed just recently are a prime example. In line with the principles of a circular economy, they are made from 80 % recycled plastic! OSRAM ...
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2023-02-20

Ranked among the Top 100 Global innovators

Clarivate Analytics, a global information services company (Headquarters: Philadelphia, USA; Japan office: Minato-Ku, Tokyo) has selected Nichia Corporation (Headquarters: Anan City, Tokushima; President: Hiroyoshi Ogawa; hereafter referred to as “Nichia”) as a top 100 global innovative company (Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2023). This recognition is awarded to companies actively developing innovative products and services and securing the rights to inventions. In acknowledgement of Nichia’s continued provision of new value to societ...
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2023-02-20

Amerlux's New Linear Lighting 'Too Irresistible to Ignore' for Architects

Carisma LED Linear Charms with Performance, Quality, Worth OAKLAND, N.J., Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, has released a series of architectural linear luminaires that promises to preserve architects' true design specifications in any project with its market-leading performance, quality and premium value. Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, has released a series of architectural linear luminaires that promises to preserve architects’ true design specificatio...
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2023-02-20

Bridgelux Responds to Nichia Lawsuit Against CoreStaff Co., Ltd., in Japan Targeting Bridgelux F90 Products

Bridgelux issues a statement regarding Nichia lawsuit against CoreStaff in Japan Targeting Bridgelux F90 Products FREMONT, Calif. – February 20, 2023 – Bridgelux F90 products incorporate cutting-edge technology to deliver unsurpassed performance at competitive prices. Bridgelux's technology results from years of advanced research and development and is protected by Bridgelux's and its subsidiaries intellectual property, which currently includes a patent portfolio of more than 550 worldwide patents that extend across the expanse of light emitti...
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Violumas, provider of high-power UV LED solutions and inventor of 3-PAD LED technology, is proud to launch the release of new 275nm and 265nm LEDs in mid-power, high-power, and high-density packages. The radiant flux of the new 275nm and 265nm... READ MORE

DURHAM, NC – November 12, 2024 –– Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), today announced the launch of its new CV28D LEDs with FusionBeam™ Technology, a groundbreaking advancement for the LED signage market... READ MORE