American Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS) has honored the "3 Star Supplier Excellence Award" to ON Semiconductor during the annual Raytheon Supplier Excellence Awards. It’s the fifth consecutive year that ON Semiconductor has received this honor.

Recently,Nichia Corporation has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Wilmar Corporation for infringing two Nichia patents directed to white LEDs (U.S. Patents Nos. 5,998,925 and 7,531,960) and two Nichia patents directed to LED chips (U.S. Patents Nos. 5,652,434 and 6,093,965) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Japan Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has raised its blue LED production capacity from 200 million units per month to 340 million units per month at its Chiba site. SDK made a trial run to secure product quality and stable operations after completion of expansion work in July, and has already started commercial operation.

Epistar has become the only Taiwan company, which gets the cross license from Toyoda Gosei .The two companies has made an agreement that both Epistar and Toyoda Gosei(including subsidiaries) can use each other's patents for specific technologies in Group III-V compound semiconductor LEDs, which include InGaN LEDs and AlGaInP LEDs.

Energy Smart Industry (ESI), known for smart and energy efficient lighting solutions, launches special outdoor LED lighting. With the new lighting, people can look forward to get powerful lights for outdoors and can also get to save on their electricity bill. The outdoor lighting retrofitting program offered by the company comes along with a special 5 years all –inclusive protection plan. 

Acuity Brands, a market leader in innovative energy efficient lighting and control solutions, is proud to support the University of Akron in its sustainability, design and energy conservation goals for the University's new Multiplex residence hall. The new residence hall features more than 700 Lithonia Lighting(R) RTLED(TM) luminaires in hallways, study lounges and social lounges.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC's new polycarbonate grade offers high light transmittance and UL flammability rating properties for LED lenses Replacing a long-time fixture isn't easy. But PolyBrite's Borealis® LED (light-emitting diode) lamps featuring Bayer MaterialScience LLC's Makrolon® polycarbonate plastic make it a snap to switch from an energy-sapping incandescent light bulb to energy-efficient, eye-pleasing and impact-resistant LED technology.

JP Sercel Associates, Inc. (JPSA) a leading manufacturer of laser scribing and laser lift-off (LLO) systems for LED production, announced that their 2010 shipments of laser processing systems for LEDs is up 250% in the first 3 quarters of 2010 from 2009 shipments.  The increasing demand for high throughput 266nm front side scribing tools for sapphire, and HB LED wafers is being driven primarily by major Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers.

Diodes Incorporated has designed the SBR1U400P1 super barrier rectifier to increase the efficiency of off-line LED drivers. It can be used in LED light bulbs, lighting ballasts, signage and street lighting. The SBR1U400P1 super barrier rectifier features a forward voltage some 25% lower than standard p-n diode alternatives. This 1A, 400V rated part suits both bridge, with a 120VAC input, and buck stages of driver circuits.

ON Semiconductor has launched a new one-channel Quad-Mode(TM) LED Driver, the CAT3661. With a patented architecture and integrates fault protection and fault diagnostics, the CAT3661 is designed to be used in ultra low power LED applications such as portable handheld medical equipment powered by coin cell batteries with a current of up to 5 mA.

XLamp® ML-E LED Enables ENERGY STAR® Compliant Distributed Illumination Products Cree, Inc.(Nasdaq: CREE) is raising the standard for half-watt LED devices with the commercial availability of its XLamp® ML-E LED. The lighting-class XLamp ML-E provides lighting designers with a compact and cost-effective solution for distributed LED arrays that can enable them to meet the stringent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENERGY STAR® performance criteria.

Based on the strong demand for chips, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) expects net profit to rise 40% in 2010, while due to an anticipated chip supply glut, the growth will likely slow in 2011, according to its chairman Morris Chang.

The Dolby PRM-4200 professional reference monitor has used OSRAM Opto Semiconductors' Ceramos MultiLED devices.   OSRAM's 1,536 RGB LED's blue, green and red chips are positioned so that the color combination exhibits the same appearance when viewed from various angles.  

Energy Smart Industry (ESI), one of the leading providers of LED retrofitting, announces LED Retrofit Program for Industrial Lighting. With this new lighting solution the industries can look forward to a noticeable reduction in electricity bills and can enjoy the advantages offered by LED lightings.

It's reported that the Chinese government has invested over10 billion yuan (1.47 billion U.S. dollars) in research and development of green technologies for the 2006-2010 period. Zhang Laiwu, vice minister of science and technology at a press conference in Beijing pointed out that, China had developed key technologies that could cut greenhouse emissions . More than 1.6 million LED lights were being used in 21 cities in a pilot program to promote the use of LED lights, which will save more than 164 million KWH of electricity annually. 

Royal Philips Electronics announced a new light bulb that produces equal light as a 60-watt incandescent with the same energy use as a compact fluorescent but with a much longer life and mercury-free at the Lightfair International tradeshow in Las Vegas.

Panasonic has unveiled a new Viera Pure Line comes with shiny purple, satin silver and silky white, which appears different colors depending of the lighting in the room. They are available in four screen sizes (37", 32", 22" and 19"),the 2 smaller sizes come with a built-in iPod dock, while the 2 larger come with Panasonic's own Viera Cast service (complete with Skype).

Hewlett-Packard released a new 23-inch HP 2310e HD widescreen display. Below are the main specifications: 1. Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 resolution 2. 8,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio 3. 16:9 aspect ratio 4. 250 nits of brightness 5. 5ms on/off response time 6. Displays 70% of the color gamut

Carmanah Technologies Corporation has supplied 52 solar LED flashing beacons to the City of Bethany, Oklahoma to improve the safety of the City's district school zones. And these beacons will be sold by local Carmanah distributor, Gades Sales Inc..   According to Carmanah, the R829 solar LED flashing beacon is designed specifically for school zone applications and features wireless communication between beacons, an easy-to-use calendar program for activation, and maintenance-free operation for up to five years.

Unveils Partnership with Easylite and First Customer Implementation to Usher in a New Era in Cost-Effective, Easy-to-Implement Wireless Lighting Control

Toshiba launched new Cinema Series for 2010 includes the WX800 line of 3D LED HDTVs. The WX800 3D series is compatible with Blu-ray 3D specifications, and requires 3D glasses manufactured by Toshiba. They are available in 55-inch and 46-inch sizes and Toshiba boasts the line as their "most meticulously designed and engineered [HDTV] to date."

Gary Ashburner and Richard Gill join the UK team to strengthen Dialight’s position as a forerunner in the field of industrial LED lighting Dialight , an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, announced two senior appointments who bring between them a combined experience of more than 40 years in LED technology. Together they will oversee the sales in Europe, Asia and the Middle East for the company's growing solid state hazardous area lighting business.

Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.(SETI) has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award which is worth of  $475,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop water disinfection units based on solid state deep ultraviolet LEDs. According to the SBIR program, SETI will design, develop, fabricate and demonstrate advanced all-LED water treatment units with reduced power consumption and extended reliability.

Future Electronics has cooperated with Montreal-based McGill University in student engineering projects, which relates to four lighting and renewable energy projects designed by 41 engineering students as part of their senior-year course requirements.   One of the projects won the Mechanical Engineering department's annual Harry Pearce Prize used 48 neutral white LUXEON® Rebel LEDs to illuminate an underground train station platform.

Light Middle East 2010 will be held from October 31 to November 2 at Dubai International Covention and Exhibition Centre. According to Ahmed Pauwels, chief executive officer of Epoc Messe Frankfurt, the conference will train the focus on the need for coming up with energy efficient lighting solutions. Speakers will discuss the effects of new technology and trends in the industry worldwide and put the spotlight on the benefits of alternative lighting sources such as LED technology.

Philips has updated its medium term financial targets over the 2011-2015 period .It aims at an EBITA of between 10-13% of sales as well as an average sales grow of at least at 2% higher than global GDP in 2011-2015.

Acer has unveiled AT58 LED TV series with Pininfarina design. The new TVs are equipped with backlit LED panels, features slightly curved edges, ultra-thin profile and transparent frame with the logo designed by Pininfarina and the lustrous platform and they also allows energy saving of 68% compared with the traditional LCD monitors.

Cooperate with Easylite, Daintree developed a new control platform for SSL and other energy-efficient lighting options. And lighting control systems can save money. The new ControlScope software platform without requiring new wiring to connect with fixtures, switches, sensors, and other devices, can control installations that scale from a small office to an entire enterprise and reside on the Wireless Area Controller (WAC).

Currently, Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has been developing wafer-level LED packaging technology, and planed to produce on a large scale in 2011. Now, SPIL had offered 25W high brightness (HB) LEDs for general lighting for the three American customers. It is possible more customers choose SPIL’ LEDs.

Genesis Photonics hoped its Q3 revenues of 2010 increase 40% straightly, and get about NT$1 billion (US$31 million) from LED billboards in China.