Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has acquired a 21% stake in U.S. thin-film solar cell maker Stion on June 16. The new deal underscores TSMC`s aggressive move into the green energy market, including solar energy and LEDs. The initiative is being orchestrated by the company’s green-energy division under Rick Tsai, the leadership of TSMC`s former CEO.

WestPark Capital, Inc.,finished a WRASP transaction resulted in raising a total of $13.6 million for Chinese LED lighting manufacturer, known as China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics. A WRASP is an alternative capital markets transaction process where a private company goes public through a reverse merger, with its common stock trading directly on the NYSE Amex or another senior exchange. China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics gained a listing on the NYSE Amex.

Haima's first SUV equipped LEDs from DOMINANT Opto Technologies for the tail lamp.

Based on the material shortages, Everlight Electronics Inc., Epistar Corp. and Formosa Epitaxy Inc. suggest that LED supply will not satisfy with the demand till the end of this year

AIXTRON AG today announced a multiple tool order from Sanan OptoElectronics Co. Ltd., headquartered in Xiamen, China. The Sanan order for multiple CRIUS® 31x2 inch tools was placed at the end of 2009. The local AIXTRON support team has successfully commissioned the new HB GaN LED growth reactors at Sanan’s new purpose-built facility in Tianjin in the first two quarters of 2010.

All ten stadiums of the soccer World Cup are equipped with energy saving lighting technology by OSRAM. The LED luminaires LEDbeam produced by BEKA demonstrate how LED in particular are able to add that certain something to a stadium. The luminaires are for example used in the Durban and Cape Town stadiums. In Cape Town’s football temple the LED trace wave shapes of high quality white light.

Formosa Epitaxy schedules to expand its LED capacity from 43 MOCVD sets to 81 by the end of 2010. It will raise the capital by issuing up to 150 million shares with a view to a target of around US$ 162.6 million. Before the decision is made, a eholders meeting on Financial options is going to be hold. And the new developments is planned to take place in Taiwan and China.

Diana Electronic Systems has cooperated with the OSRAM partner network LED Light for you, to develop an energy-efficient LED lamp for the Global Nature Fund to be used in Sri Lanka.

Toshiba Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with Louvre Museum in its lighting renovation project. In this project, Toshiba will support lighting renovations in some of the museums most visited public spaces, such as the Pyramids, the Napoléon Court, and the Cour carrée, with its energy saving low-CO2 LED lighting, and industry-leading products .

Tyco Electronics launched a new Type CM solderless LED socket. It’s available for integration of the Cree XLamp MP-L multichip LED into light fixtures. The socket provides a termination for six 0.60mm2 connection pads,mounted on the top of the LED. To comply with wire or board applications, it is offered in two versions, the wire termination version and the board termination version. Each is offered with or without attachment features for optics.

The CAO Group, which is a dental OEM company, broadens licensing of LED dental curing patents portfolio to major dental companies. CAO helped pioneer LED technology in dental curing by using LED as light source. Its patents include LED structures, heat management, and broadband wavelengths for curing dental composites and adhesives. CAO has been licensed 31 U.S. and international patents to date. It has also established expertise in dental curing light manufacturing.

Taiwan`s major LED chipmakers ,such as Epistar Corp., Formosa Epitaxy Inc. , Genesis Photonics Inc., Lextar Electronics Corp., are expanding output to meet the LED supply explosively increasing supply challenge this year. Epistar Corp., has agreed private placements of less than 300 million shares, hoping raise nearly NT$26 billion in cash.

Oxley Developments acquired a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation, to provide engineering LED services for the ships’ navigation and signaling lights for the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.  

Philips Lumileds Lighting Company has ordered an additional AIXTRON G5 HT MOCVD reactor. According to Mike Pugh, Chief Procurement Officer of Philips Lumileds, the G5 system’s fully automated operations through integrated wafer handling causes their attention, so they choose G5 system at their San Jose facility.

Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) has integrated its supply chain of LED lightings. The major integrated company includes Nan Ya Photonics Inc., Formosa Advanced Technologies Co., Ltd. andFormosa Energy & Material Technology Co., Ltd.

Tekcore Co., Ltd., Genesis Photonics Inc., and Lextar Electronics Corp. launched over NT$11.3 billion expansion plans, which came from syndicated loans. Among the loan, Genesis received NT$1.5 billion from 12 banks, Tekcore secured a loan of NT$1.8 billion with Chang Hwa Bank, and 8 banks agreed to lend NT$8 billion to Lextar.

OSRAM LED installation at the Siemens headquarters in Munich turns public viewing into an impressive event

Hitachi America, Ltd.'s Digital Media Division announced UltraVision® UltraThin LED Series in its 2010 line of LCD HDTVs. The new Hitachi UltraThin LED models thickness are less than two inches and use the latest high-efficiency LED technology while delivering stunning Full HD 1080p 120Hz picture quality. Compared with conventional LCD models, these models are mercury-free and ENERGY STAR® 4.1 qualified, consuming less power without compromising on image brightness or color vibrancy.

Focusing on creating a flat-panel LED lighting system for architectural and commercial lighting for global markets,Rambus Inc. and GE Lighting signed a licensing agreement for the use of Rambus'patented lighting innovations, including its product reference designs and manufacturing process know-how.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has chosenSpire Corporation as the recipient of a Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop a LED based solar simulator. Spire mainly produces solar simulators using pulsed light lamp light sources. It will develop a next generation solar simulator, based on LED technology.

Formosa Epitaxy Inc. has played a role on the global supply chain of pico projectors. Licensed by U.S.`s Luminus Device for use of V-GaN technology, Formosa's green LED chip is improved to more than 100lm/W, and being used in handheld and built-in pico projectors.

Unity Opto Technology Co. has tapped supply chains of Japan’s LCD TV brands Sony and Sharp. It plans to start delivery of LED light bars to Sony and Sharp’s designated makers of BLUs  in the fourth quarter of this year, and will be able to attain annual revenue of over NT$8 billion  for the whole year.

Sprint and Samsung Telecommunications America introduced the second 4G-capable handset, Samsung Epic™ 4G, a Galaxy S™ smartphone and Samsung Mobile’s first 4G Android™-powered device. This handset features an exceptionally thin smartphone design with a slide out, full QWERTY keyboard and 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display.

Aixtron cooperate with the University of Duisburg-Essen's Center for Semiconductor and Optoelectronics (ZHO), the Department of Electronics Materials and Nanostructures in a NaSoL nitride nanowires project.

Osram releases new flexible, bendable LED light strips LEDsDeco Flex, using for design and decorative residential lighting. In these lightings, with a remote control, a selection of different colors and atmospheric lights can be selected. It also announced the Backlight Power LED light chains for illuminated advertising and backlighting of signs and logos.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) will in partnership with Stion Corp. of the United States to set up a factory in the Central Taiwan Science Park to produce CuInGaSe2-based (CIGS-based) thin-film solar cells. In this factory, Stion will transfer its CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) PV technology to TSMC in exchange for No.1 pure silicon foundry's pledge to supply it solar cells using the technology.

Bright LED made a deal with a Beijing-headquartered state-run corporation for LED billboards measuring 1,400 square meters. It’s estimated RMB17 million. According to the company’s chairman, J.R. Liao, the company`s revenue for May set a new high of NT$523 million. And it estimated the revenue for June will reach NT$600 million and for the entire year to top NT$6 billion.

4th (Shanghai) International Road Lamp, Patio Lamp & Outdoor Lighting Fair 2010 ( RLF2010 ) will be on Sep 15 ~ 17, 2010 in

Bayer MaterialScience set up its first Asian functional films research centre in Singapore, focusing on coated high-tech film and nanotechnology to meet growing demand from the Asia-Pacific electronics market.