Artists around the world are combining lighting technology, multimedia and local landscape to attract attentions from visitors and create stunning experiences. 

At COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2018, ITRI demonstrated the new Micro LED signage module which transfers Micro LED chip directly on PCB substrate. This achievement suggests that the display module has a great potential to reduce the cost and can be applied on products like video wall and indoor signage through combination. 

LG Eletronics USA Business Solution is introducing the new Transparent Color LED film display which is flexible and can be attached on any surface such as windows and glass, making it possible to turn them into customized digital display. 

In COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2018, FSP, a leading power-supply manufacturer in the world, will display its cutting-edge technologies for 5G, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and eSports applications, to showcase its multiple R&D and technological strengths in the power supply industry. With the advent of 5G wireless technology, advanced power supplies and systems have become increasingly important. Metaphorically speaking, a power supply system is like a heart that keeps the modern tech world alive and running, while wireless communications technology is like the brain’s neural network.

The upcoming Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE) is the most influential and professional lighting event in Asia, providing visitors with comprehensive information of the latest developments and trends of the lighting industry. Shanghai Wellmax Lighting (WELLMAX), as the top company in LED industry, will participate in this event to showcase its latest LED technologies at booth A29, hall 4.1 from June 9th – 12th. 

Signify, formerly known as Philips, announced the expansion of LED horticultural lighting installation with Agro-Inwest, Russia’s rapidly growing innovative company cultivating fresh vegetables. The greenhouses using LED lighting for growing tomatoes will reach the size of 68.5 hectares, equivalent to 100 soccer pitches. 

China is well-known as the world’s center of LED design and manufacturing, with complete and mature LED lighting value chain in place for many years. As the LED Bulb Expert and the top LED bulb manufacturer in China, Shanghai Wellmax Lighting (WELLMAX) has rich experience in handling SKD projects. The company has successfully helped customers from Egypt, India and South America to set up SKD assembly lines. Today, we will tell you the secret behind their success stories. 

With Micro LED entering different applications, LEDinside this year has invited industry experts in Taiwan and from around the world to dissect the development of the technology and its major bottlenecks.

NASA is bringing the application of horticultural lighting to another level: the space. Aiming to provide fresh food supplies for astronauts off the earth, NASA has employed LED lighting system for researching the efficient possibilities to produce food during space travel.

Call for Paper Abstracts: TrendForce is inviting companies and academic institutions to submit abstracts or outlines of their latest technical papers related to Innovative Micro LED Technologies. Below are instructions, terms, and conditions for the submission. ▲ Submission Period: Jun. 6, 2018 to Sep. 30, 2018 ▲ Prize winners will be announced on Oct 30, 2018.

Focusing on the technology trend of Micro LED and its manufacturing limitation, this year in Micro LEDforum, LEDinside has invited worldwide experts to dissert and reveal the solutions of Micro LED applications. 

Vuzix® Corporation ("Vuzix" or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to announce that the Company is partnering with Plessey Semiconductor, a leading developer of award-winning optoelectronic solutions. The two companies are partnering to develop advanced display engines for Vuzix waveguide optics to enable next generation AR Smart Glasses. The combination of Vuzix' extensive expertise and IP in smart glasses and waveguide optic technologies along with Plessey's microLED light source product family, Quanta-Brite™ will be the basis for a new generation of AR Smart Glasses with the sleekest form factors to date.

According to the latest report from LEDinside, a division of the market research firm TrendForce, 2018 Chinese Automotive Lighting Market Report- Passenger Car and Logistics Car Market Analysis, the quantity and market share of local car manufacturers in China have increased since 2017. The sales volume of domestic brands has grown annually as well. The product price levels from local car manufacturers have gradually approached to medium range. Although the license plate lottery measure reduced purchasing willingness, yet, as per capita income grew, car penetration will experience significant growth. Chinese conventional passenger car shipment volume in 2017 has reached 23.8 million units, and is expected to reach 25.5 million units in 2018.

Luminus Devices, Inc. has released its third proprietary spectral technology, PerfectWhite™, which closely replicates the visual characteristics of halogen lamps (3000K). When compared to halogen, PerfectWhite was preferred by lighting designers in testing at both Light + Building and Lightfair. Though the spectrums are a virtual match – Luminus filled the cyan gap – PerfectWhite’s color point is slightly below the black body locus and as a result, there’s no green/yellow tint that is common to halogen. A better halogen has long been a wish of the lighting design community and PerfectWhite delivers without infra-red, without green/yellow tint, and without ultraviolet radiation.

Luminus Devices, Inc. has expanded its ultraviolet (UV) LED portfolio with two new 280 nm devices intended for the medical and health and well-being product segments. The standard footprint 3535 surface mount emitter is a 350 mA device with peak output up to 60 mW. The second ultra-compact emitter is 1.3 mm by 1.3 mm and only 0.85 mm tall; it delivers 3 mW at 20 mA and peak output of 11 mW at 100 mA.

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that it has reached the 900th member milestone for its EnabLED Licensing Program for LED luminaires and retrofit bulbs in May. This latest milestone underlines the company's commitment to research and development and innovation in the latest energy efficient LED technologies.

Light Polymers is now shipping the first of its Healthy Lighting products in the Taiwan market. In a press conference in Neihu today, Light Polymers explained its lyotropic liquid crystal technology which is made and formulated in Taiwan and how it uses its liquid crystals to make Crystallin film to create healthy LED lighting products.

For the LED driver product line, wide AC voltage input range (180 ~ 528VAC) HVGC family, MEAN WELL now launches HVGC-650 series to offer more choices of high power products.

Display Week, held by SID (Society for Information Display), is a world-famous display forum and exhibition. It was held in Los Angeles this year, attended by renowned display manufacturers. As the market attention of Micro LED gradually increases, LEDinside is on spot to provide the latest display market information for you.

During Display Week 2018, many big giants have been simultaneously releasing Mini LED backlight products. LEDinside found those Mini LED panels majorly adopt direct-type local dimming and support HDR mode, making the vivid contract ratio, which can compete with OLED panel.

Display Week, held in every May in Los Angles, is the world-famous Display Exhibition. As the raising attention toward Micro LED market, LEDinside will provide the latest display market news LIVE.

In 1946, more than 100 founding parishioners came together to build a community where families could worship as one, establishing the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Community. Built around a host of ministries that include a school, an early childhood center, and various summer programs, the sanctuary within the community is relied upon as part of the foundation for spiritual growth. With an outdated lighting system which needed replacement, the church worked with the Houston-based manufacturers rep LESCO Lighting Technology who installed a bright and energy-efficient worship design using Chalice LED downlights and Pegasus LED Fresnels from Altman Lighting.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces an expansion of the XLamp® High Current LED Array family with new CMT LEDs that extend Cree’s latest metal-based chip-on-board (COB) LED technology to the most prevalent COB form factors. In addition to providing up to 45 percent more lumen density and up to 17 percent higher efficacy, all Cree® XLamp High Current LED Arrays feature an innovative metal substrate technology that delivers higher reliability than competing metal COBs. With more than 6,000 hours of LM-80 data available, the expanded family of LEDs enables lighting manufacturers to immediately upgrade their designs for DesignLights Consortium® and ENERGY STAR® eligible applications, such as track, downlight and outdoor lighting. “With the new High Current CMT LEDs, Cree has given us a full portfolio of solutions for our upcoming luminaire designs, in terms of both performance and ease of integration,” said Shawn Keeney, technology manager, Ledra Brands, a manufacturer of innovative, specification grade LED lighting fixtures and systems. “By choosing Cree, we know that we are leveraging the highest performance and best long-term reliability for COB LEDs to continue our leadership in solid state lighting design.”

Display Week, held in every May in Los Angles, is the world-famous Display Exhibition. As the raising attention toward Micro LED market, LEDinside will provide the latest display market news LIVE. At the same time, LEDinside are going to do interview with Christopher Bower, the CTO of X-Celeprint to share their extraordinary display technology in 2018.

Korea-based Lumens made a stunning debut by delivering Micro LED display module called “MLD” in Indian market.

At Display Week 2018, the flourish of Micro LED can be seen from the keynote speech on the opening day. During the speech, Zhang Deqiang, the CEO of Visionox has discussed the technical prospect of OLED, and Douglas Lanman, Ph.D of Oculus Research was also on spot to discuss the eye-tracking technology in VR device. In addition, among correlated persons and experts in display field, SID specially invited Hiroshi Amano, a Nobel Prize Winner, to share the development situation of Micro LED technology in the future.

Display Week, held in every May in Los Angles, is the world-famous Display Exhibition. As the raising attention toward Micro LED market, LEDinside will provide the latest display market news LIVE.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that Lumentum Holdings Inc. has ordered the Veeco K475i™ Arsenide/Phosphide (As/P) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for production of its advanced semiconductor components which address the 3D sensing, high-speed fiber-optic communications and laser-based materials processing end-markets. Lumentum, headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., is a leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonics products.

Micro LED since 2014 has been receiving attention. The industry is slowly becoming familiar with the new display technology that motivated Apple to acquire LuxVue. However, in 2008 a company already foresaw Micro LED to be a future display trend and started related development despite lack of market appetite. When the market started noticing Mini/Micro LED UK-based optic tech firm Optovate had already patented ideas to render various applications featuring these microscopic technologies.

2018 is a pivotal year for Mini/Micro LED development. UK-based Plessey Semiconductors in January announced its commitment to launch a Micro LED microdisplay featuring monolithic GaN-on-Silicon Micro LEDs. Following the announcement, LEDinside got in touch with Myles Blake, Marketing Director of Plessey Semiconductors, to learn more about its technology platform and product roadmap.