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Meeting the international standards of Singapore's Jurong Town public housing project with industry-leading cooperative effort

A premium "True color LED Display" producing up to over 281 trillion colors.

AU Optronics intends to set up TV set assembly plants in Europe and America in 2011. It has posted NT$11.25 billion (US$351 million) in net profit for the second quarter -- up 54.6 percent from the first quarter -- on the back of strong global demand.

The City of Chicago has installed new Borealis LED streetlights as part of a test pilot program. The City of Chicago will monitor the LED streetlights, weighed against their current lighting solution for streets and alleyways. The goal is for a safer, cleaner and brighter light that will improve nighttime safety and the overall appearance of the city.

LG Electronics made a deal with Germany's Kellendonk Elektronik to join in the Smart Watts project sponsored by the German government to develop a decentralized, intelligent electricity network. The deal marks the first time a Korean company has taken part in a smart grid project in Europe.

Toshiba announced its E-Core series of LED street lamps, a 400W mercury lamp or a 180W high-pressure sodium lamp. It is possible to realize an average road luminance of 1.0cd/m2 with an average power consumption of 122W (when input is 200V) by using these lamps. The power consumptions of street lamps using a 400W mercury lamp (KSC-4) are 415W and a 180W high-pressure sodium lamp (KSH-2) are 195W.

Peaceful Thriving Enterprise Co., Ltd. announced the launch of the good selling the newest 7339 Voltage Tester. It features adoption of LED indicator lights and an LED display to secure more accurate and easier reading of testing results.

Topco Energy Saving System schedules to achieve a 20% share of the Japanese market for LED bulbs this year. According to Sunny Tsai , the company president ,the firm with 90% of its sales generated in Japan, has shipped over 100,000 LED bulbs to the country in July alone. What's more, it looks to achieve single-month shipment of over 500,000 units during the Christmas sales season. The firm has commanded an 11% share of the segment in Japan with 6W LED bulbs priced at only NT$349.

Unilighting has unveiled a new LED Street Lamp. It features Aluminum heat-sink, which has a high effect heat dissipation to extend life span of the lamp. And aiming to get away from the influence caused by a broken single LED, each LED' circuit is designed to work separately.

Linear Technology has designed a 60V, 1MHz step-down DC/DC converter to drive up to 30 LEDs in a display. Operating from a supply voltage of 48V input, the LT3596 can drive up to three strings of LEDs, each with up to ten 100mA LEDs in series, delivering efficiencies of over 90%.

Digi-Key has honored ON Semiconductor with the 2010 Exceptional Sales Performance Award.  

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A 'Lease on Light' Program has been announced by Brand Neue Corp, the exclusive North American sales agent and distributor for Luma Vue LED Lighting products and systems.

Toshiba announced 3D-compatible Cell Regza LCD TVs and it will start releasing these in August 2010 in Japan along with the "Regza Blu-ray" Blu-ray Disc (BD) recorders. The Cell Regza , which was jointly developed by Toshiba, the Sony Group and IBM Corp, is an LCD TV equipped with the Cell Broadband Engine microprocessor (Cell).

An LED driver NCL30001, which integrates PFC and isolated step-down AC-DC power conversion in a single stage, has been created by ON Semiconductor. It is designed to operate in CCM and can be configured as either a constant current or fixed output voltage driver for LED-based street lighting and architectural lighting applications of between 40W and 150W.

AIXTRON did the positive business performance in H1/2010 due to the continuing healthy demand, beneficial volume effects, and a stronger US Dollar. Firstly, compared to H1/2009, the gross margin in H1/2010 was 10 percentage points higher at 53%. The H1/2010 operating result increased year on year by 769% to EUR 106.9m with a 19 percentage points higher EBIT margin of 31%, leading to a net result of EUR 74.1m or 21% return on sales. The H1/2010 net income was 742% up year on year.

The ultra-flat Orbeos OLED panel wins the Electron d’Or Award for product of the year in the Opto/Display category. The jury of renowned industry and research experts selected OSRAM’s light, energy-efficient Orbeos surface-emitting diode froma total of seven products.

GlacialTech Inc. introduces the novel GL-BR20D/30D/40D Series LED Bulbs that are high quality 90-132/180-264V AC LED replacement lamps. What makes GL-BR20D/30D/40D most unique is the TRIAC-dimmable function incorporated in the bulbs for smoothly dimming down to complete darkness while the dimmer's conduction angle being decreased to nil.

Sony has developed a prototype 360-degree autostereoscopic display called RayModeler, allowing viewers to see full colour volumetric objects from 360-degree. And no special 3D glasses are needed to see the 3D images. It demonstrated this technology at the SIGGRAPH 2010 convention and the display uses special LED light sources showing 360 unique images to all directions in one-degree separations.

Germany's Siemens AG will sell its assembly systems business Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems (SEAS) to ASM Pacific Technology, a subsidiary of ASM International NV of the Netherlands.

Samsung lauched its brand new 22-inch and 26-inch screen variants of LED TVs for the first time in India. These new TVs expand Samsung's LED TV line up to include TVs having 22-inch displays to monsters that measure 55-inches across.

Carmanah Technologies Corporation installs 26 EverGEN 1710 solar LED lighting without electrical connections on the Selkirk Trestle Bridge in Victoria, BC. The units will run the length of the 300 meter long railway trestle bridge. It's easy to install the units on the bridge and it can operate free of ongoing electricity bills as stipulated in the project requirements.

Kemerovo in Siberia is converting to street lighting with LEDs by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors on a broad scale. The city of 520,000 inhabitants on the Trans-Siberian Railway has installed 200 street luminaires made by LLC TD Focus, which are equipped with Golden DRAGON oval Plus LEDs. The city can therefore achieve significant savings in energy costs and CO2 emissions.

To improve its support services to Taiwanese customers, Strasbaugh has engaged the services of E-Dot Technology. E-Dot, a CMP service and support company headquartered in the Hsinchu Industrial Park, will represent Strasbaugh by providing service and support to Strasbaugh's Taiwan-based customers.

The National Aquarium in Baltimore, America, is replacing the iconic blue neon wave on the south side of its Pier 3 building and a fixture on the city skyline with LEDs, expected to cut the energy use associated with illuminating the wave by 70 percent. It's also part of a national trend in which neon lights of all kinds, from Boston's famous Citgo sign to lights in local shopping malls, are giving way to LED systems.

The development of LED monitor and TV not only brought life to the maturing panel industry, but also became the key pillars to expand the emerging LED industry. The analysts of WitsView and LEDinside, the research divisions of TrendForce, took a positive attitude toward the long-term development of LED BLU products.

Apple revealed new 27-inch LED Cinema Display this Tuesday. It features 2560 x 1440 resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio, a built-in microphone to complement the iSight camera and speakers, a built-in 3-port powered USB 2.0 hub, and a built-in MagSafe charging connector for Apple's laptop lineup.

Fairchild Semiconductor's China-based Global Power ResourceSM Center (GPRC) has developed a total solution to increase the lifetime of street lamps. It features advanced critical conduction mode PFC, high-efficiency DC-DC and constant current contro, including two sub-solutions, either parallel or serial, within the same PCB layout delivering up to 91.26 percent and 92.6 percent efficiency respectively from AC input to the LED side, under 220V input voltage.

Philips Lumileds developed its LUXEON Rebel ES product line , which enable new outdoor lighting solutions to deliver higher efficacy and more light output. The new LUXEON Rebel ES delivers more than 300 lumens and efficacy of 100 lumens per watt at 1000 mA. When optimizing for system efficiency, current can be lowered and efficacy can exceed 125 lumens per watt.