Topco held its Shareholders conference on June 17, Dr. J. W. Kuo, the chairman of Topco, expressed on the conference that car LED lights and indoor lighting would be its two main development directions in this year, also Topco plans to access to the hottest plant factory in near future, and integrate its LED and other related materials to provide a complete solution to shipping. Dr. J. W. Kuo said that Topco LED elements are mainly directly sold to Taiwan light factories, such as TYC and Depo. As for the interior lighting, Topco also developed its own indoor ...

In any automobile, lighting is a very essential component. With continuous developments in LED and adaptive lighting technologies, many automotive manufacturers have ended up lowering the level of energy consumption in various lighting units as well as enhanced the safety aspect of the vehicle by providing improved visibility. The primary purpose of lighting in vehicle is to provide visibility for the driver under darkness and bad weather conditions and to intimate the vehicle presence, position, and size to other pedestrians and motorists on the road. Other than these purposes, l...

Osram Opto Semiconductors announces the prototype of the Oslon Compact, currently the most compact high-power LED for the automotive market. Thanks to the flexible arrangement of these small LEDs it will be much easier and more cost-effective to create individual headlight designs. A prototype of the Oslon Compact LED was unveiled by the automotive semiconductor specialist from Regensburg in October at the SIA Vision conference in Versailles (France, October 9/10).