2011-10-13

Mainland China’s Incandescent-ban Program Affects Taiwan’s LED Maufactures’ Actions

As Mainland China starts to implement a plan to phase out incandescent lamps in four to five years since October, Taiwan’s LED makers have taken actions to seize this opportunities. Epistar and Everlight have entered into alliance with Konka Group to open an epitaxy-wafer venture in the mainland. Everlight, is also promoting own-brand LED lighting in the mainland. LiteOn is setting up production lines in Changzhou, which integrate front-end, mid-end and back-end manufacturing capability. Genesis and Ledtech have separately signed agreementswith Potevio...
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Veeco Instruments Inc., a global leader in advanced semiconductor and compound semiconductor process equipment, today announced wins with Sparrow Quantum (Denmark) and Yeungnam University (South Korea), who have selected Veeco’s Molecula... READ MORE

Cree LED, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and SANlight GmbH, Schruns, Austria, today announced a partnership under which SANlight will use Cree LED’s J Series® products in its new STIXX-Series luminaires. Developed for appl... READ MORE