On June 27, Taiwan Bureau of Energy, under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) announced that the Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) has approved to invest NT$2.8 billion in three years for replacing existing 326,000 mercury streetlights with LED streetlights, expecting to create NT$4.5 billion of production value. Of the amount, public bidding for at least 273,000 LED streetlights will be completed by the end of 2012, in preparation for installation by the middle of 2013. The batch of 326,000 LED streetlights will account for less than 20% of Taiwan’...

According to Epistar’s executive, the company expects a turnaround this quarter, thanks to strong demand for LED TVs and LED lighting would help boost factory utilization and lift gross margin significantly to more than 20 percent. That would end two straight quarterly losses for Epistar, after the company lost NT$515 million (US$17.19 million) in the first quarter and NT$620 million in the final quarter of 2012. Epistar said the prospects for next quarter have never looked better. The company’s chairman Lee Biing-jye told Unique Satellite TV af...

SemiLEDs has introduced its new 'Enhanced Vertical' (EV) LED product series. The EV LEDs feature higher thermal endurance, ensuring better reliability at higher temperatures. In addition, they feature SemiLEDs' vertical chip structure on a patented metal alloy substrate, offering advantages in excellent optical output and high thermal conductivity. They are available for global sales and immediate sampling in blue, green and UV and chip sizes of 0.4mm x 0.4mm through 1.5mm x 1.5mm....

Sources from industry executives have released that Lite-On Group takes the place of Lextar as Philips contract supplier of LED lighting. It’s a huge order that Lite-On has won from international big name company since it entered into alliance with Epistar and mainland Chinese lighting fixture makers. Under Philips contract, Lite-On will supply LED packages and modules, Epistar will provide chips and some mainland Chinese manufacturers will supply light fittings. According to Lite-On executives, the company’s revenue for the second quarter would su...

Cree XLamp® LEDs Upgrade Street Lighting in Beibei District Delivering Significant Energy and Maintenance Savings Officials in the Beibei district of Chongqing, China recently completed the installation of more than 20,000 street lights featuring 1.9 million Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-E and XP-G LEDs. The country’s largest municipal intelligent lighting control project began in July 2011 and includes nearly 16 miles of highway, with Cree LED-based luminaires installed along 119 streets and one tunnel. Officials estimate the ins...

The patent infringement battle between SemiLEDs and Cree has come to an end. The two companies have agreed to end their respective patent infringement litigation against each other. Under the settlement, SemiLEDs has agreed to make a one-time payment to Cree for past damages. It has also agreed to the entry of an injunction (effective 1 October) that prohibits the importation and sale of SemiLEDs’ accused products in the USA. The parties have agreed to withdraw the remaining claims without prejudice to the right to assert their respective claims in the future....

“European Cup in 2012”, the highest level football event in Europe, is proceeding at full steam in the National Stadium of Warsaw, Poland. Four of Unilimin’s LED displays with high refresh rate are hanging on the central top of the venue. What is displaying in the LED screens is closely tied to the emotions of football fans all over the world, making them extremely excited and enjoy the most wonderfull time.      These four LED screens face four different directions, broadcasting the live event from multi-angle with full view. U...

According to Japanese media, Panasonic schedules to enter LED lighting market for residential application in mainland China, with the release of two ceiling lights and sixteen downlights, and plans to increase the number of product to sixty in 2012. In addition, the company will focus on selling high quality products and aim at middle class and rich class market. Therefore, the price will be more expensive than products made by mainland manufactures. What’s more, apart from manufacturing LED lightings in "Beijing factory" which currently is major in fluore...

TDK Corporation has developed a partnership withToshiba, which will connect both companies' LED signs together at the One Times Square building in New York City, to present a dazzling LED animation featuring a fireworks presentation to celebrate Independence Day this July 4th.   The display will start running June 27 through July 8, 2012. This is the second collaboration with TDK and Toshiba since last Christmas. Connecting the TDK LED signboard with Toshiba's located above it will create an LED animation of 130 feet (39.66m). The co...

With the Oslon Signal, Osram Opto Semiconductors provides a new LED that currently boasts the world’s brightest blue light. Made using a special thin-film chip technology, the Oslon Signal can be operated even at a high current while providing a sustained, powerful, bright blue light. This powerful blue light that lasts even throughout long journeys is crucial for the signal lights of the police and emergency services. Oslon Signal – the brightest blue LED on the market – provides powerful and visible signal lighting for police and emergency service...

AIXTRON SE announced that National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in Taiwan, has placed an order for one Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD system in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration. NCHU will use the CCS system for conducting research into the hetero-epitaxial growth of Gallium Nitride alloys on Silicon wafers (“GaN-on-Si”). One of AIXTRON´s local service support teams has already installed and commissioned the new reactor in a dedicated cleanroom facility at NCHU’s site in Taichung, Taiwan. Prof. Wuu of th...

According to HELLA, a supplier of automotive lighting and electronic systems, LED lighting technology will significantly change the look and feel of automotive interiors in years to come. Dr. Herbert Wambsganss, director of engineering, HELLA Interior Lighting Systems, thought that ambient LED lighting will open an entirely new chapter in automotive interior design."Drivers will see significant changes in automotive interior lighting within the next five years -- changes that will improve comfort levels and enhance brand awareness." HELLA predicts...

Macroblock Hosts 2012 LED Display and Lighting System Symposium in China in July With China government’s strong support on the LED industry development, China has been rapidly expanding LED industry either in business scale or capacity, which allows China to play a key role in the global LED supply chain. However, the keen competition could be an opportunity or a crisis for China especially when LED industry in China is going toward “high-end market”. Price war can no longer help companies to survive, and the companies eventually have to fa...

Officials from Sharp have disclosed that the company plans to replace all 190,000 fluorescent lights in its offices and factories in Japan with LED lights to cut power consumption. The work will start later this month at Sharp's head office in Osaka and some other facilities. In addition, at offices and plants in the Kansai region, where the power supply is expected to be tight this summer, some 60,000 lights will be replaced with LEDs before the end of June. It will take several months for the electronics maker to complete the replacement work. And fully shifting ...

- Cut interior lighting costs with these low weight LED replacements for costly AR111 halogen lamps - GlacialLight , a division of GlacialTech Inc., has launched the new GL-AR111-V2 Vega series of interior LED lamps, another fine addition to the popular GlacialLight range of LED lighting products. The G53 base and industry-standard dimensions make this new series of LED lamps a simple, low weight, low operating cost replacement for traditional AR111 halogen lamps. Weighing in at just 95g, the new lightweight GL-AR111-V2 helps cut installation and m...

Recently, Taiwan and mainland China have signed three memorandums of understanding (MOUs) in Taiwan over LED cooperation, for creating common LED brands to tap global markets. The three agreements address co-setting technical norm and standard for LED lighting, cooperation on LED technology development and demonstration projects of trial LED lights, and assessment and demonstration of LED lighting application projects in Shanxi Province and Harbin City. According to Wu Ling, the Secretary General of China Solid State Lighting Alliance, after sign...

H-Series LED high bay from Albeo Technologies is fully listed on the DesignLights Consortium (DLC) Qualified Products List (QPL). The DLC listing is the premier list for high-efficiency commercial lighting and is equivalent to the residential EnergyStar label.  Products listed on the DLC are automatically eligible for federal rebates and other energy efficiency incentives. This full listing of the H-Series gives Albeo the most listings of any company in its category on the DesignLights Consortium Qualified Products List. Albeo raised the LE...

Taiwan Photonics Festival has taken place on June 19-21 at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall run by the quasi-official Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA). According to co-organizer Photonic Industry Technology & Development Association (PIDA), Taiwan Photonics Festival 2012, which was composed of co-located Opto Taiwan, LED Lighting Taiwan, Solar Taiwan and OptoComm Taiwan shows, over US$1.5 billion of deals had been secured at the four shows. PIDA pointed out that over 660 individual buyers fr...

Aiming at an expected double digit annual growth through 2018 for German LED lighting industry, Germany Trade & Invest has announced to center on LED technologies. Germany Trade & Invest experts, who will be at this year's LED/OLED Expo in South Korea from June 26 until June 29, have said that LED and OLED companies are well positioned for the next growth phase within the lighting industry. Jonathan Schoo, electronics and microtechnology expert at Germany Trade & Invest in Berlin, pointed out that, "The energy revolution in G...

Sony and Panasonic have announced to partner for OLED TV push. The pair's work will come to fruition in the form of OLED TVs mass-produced in 2013. Neither has given any details about the TVs they will ship at that time. And Sony's Deputy President of home entertainment products, Noriaki Negishi, confirmed to Reg Hardware earlier this year will be aggressively promoting OLED technology within a year. “2013 will be the year when we will really fight back with new technologies," he said in March.  ...

The Pearl River Delta area has always been the base of Chinese LED companies, in particular LED package makers, and plays an important role in the Chinese LED industry. Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2012, held in the pivot city of the Pearl River Delta area, understandably became a vital event for the Chinese LED players. Therefore, the exhibition consisted of most China-based LED package makers. According to LEDinside research, as opposed to their copycat strategy in the past, Chinese companies showcased products which highlighted their o...

LEDforum 2012 Guangzhou organized by LEDinside and Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, as well as co-sponsored by CNLEDW.com ,has grandly opened at the Chinese Export Commodities Fair Pazhou Complex, Area B, Room #8 on June 11, 2012. This LEDforum has invited global LED market leaders from Osram, Philips Lumileds, Seoul Semiconductor, Henkel (China), Lextar, Aixtron, Veeco Instruments, KLA-Tencor and Laytec to give wonderful presentations.   Dr. C.L. Liu from TrendForce Corp. gave an opening speech Louis...

According to Everlight’s Chairman Y.F. Yeh, the company has stocked 100,000 LED lamps at 7-11 stores on May 16 and all of them were sold out at the price of NT$299 (US$10.3 at US$1: NT$29) per piece on the second day, The company’s bulbs produce 80 lumens per watt, and are 270 degree wide in beaming angle and dimmable. And Yeh believed that consumers are motivated to buy the bulbs by efficiency over price of the lamps. Yeh continued that light efficiency, color rendering, and dimmablility have now dominated consumers’ decision to procure the lamps o...

According to a UN-led study published at the Rio+20 summit, efficient lighting would save US$110 billion (RM330 billion) a year worldwide. Based on the figures coming from an assessment of 150 countries, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility, in conjunction with the International Energy Agency (IEA) have released the report. According to the report, yearly savings in phasing out incandescent bulbs and making other simple changes would amount to around five percent of global electricity consumption. It would reduce worldwide ou...

GE Lighting’s LEDs have recently brighten Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina, Brazil, for the City’s anniversary and John Lewis , a household name of department stores in the UK, for the retailer’s new build and refurbishment program. Florianópolis Celebrates the City’s Anniversary with New LED Public Lighting Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina, Brazil, inaugurated the first phase of its new LED lighting project in March along the bicycle lane on Beira-Mar Norte, the city’...

The Moulay el Hassan Bridge in Rabat, Morocco, is one of the longest and most modern bridges in the Alaouite Kingdom and is now illuminated thanks to GE Lighting’s Iberia LED, a versatile outdoor luminaire that combines design excellence with energy savings and an extraordinary luminous quality.   In the last decade, Morocco has undertaken an ambitious infrastructure modernization plan that has made its construction sector one of the most active in the Maghreb. The capital of Rabat has benefited from the modernity of contemporary architecture and all the ...

Hitachi Appliances Inc has announced to develop world’s first E26-base wide-light-distribution-type LED light bulb, "LDA15D-G," which can emits the amount of light equivalent to that of a 100W incandescent light bulb (1,520lm). The new bulb is to be released on July 13, 2012, in Japan. According to the company, it realized the amount of light and a wide light distribution angle like the light of an incandescent light bulb by employing a high-efficiency LED module, the "Slit Structured Body," whose slit has an about 1.3 times wider radiation...

Shenzhen based LED Company Absen Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. in mainland China, has announced to supply integrated services by using its self-sufficient design and development capability integrated with its proprietary LED technologies to LED-lighting contract buyers. Founded in 2001, the company has injected capitalization of RMB63.16 million (US$10.02 million at US$1:RMB6.3) to make LED backlights and LED lighting products. In 2010, the company opened a business unit dedicated to LED lighting operation, including R&D, manufacturing, sales and ser...

GE Lighting has brought new light to New Zealand’s Wanganui City Bridge. The Whanganui River is New Zealand’s third longest river and holds special significance in Māori culture. At the mouth of the river is Wanganui, an area renowned for culture, heritage, the Wanganui National Park and river adventures. The rich history of Wanganui is displayed throughout the city center in its beautifully conserved heritage buildings and tree-lined avenues. One of the few road bridges across the Whanganui River is the Wanganui City Bridge. The Wanganui Dist...

According to price surveys by LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, affected by dwindling Q1 inventory and Q2 rush orders, LED package price for the backlight application quotes has eased in Q2, with a decline of approximately 3%. On the LED lighting market, 5630 packages were pulled from use in backlight applications, to be used in lighting instead. The sudden volume increase resulted in price slashing for this quarter’s low to mid power LED packages, with an average decrease of around 10%. Q1’12 LED Price Review Due to relatively high Q...