Last update: Tuesday 5 March 2013 [58 news items]
Leotek receives LED streetlamp orders from China
Jun 23, 15:07
Leotek Electronics, a subsidiary of Lite-On Technology, has reportedly received LED streetlamp orders from China, and is estimated to start shipments in the third quarter of 2009,...
Epistar lands US$120 million LED chip orders for China streetlamps
Jun 19, 15:49
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar has landed US$120 million worth of orders from China for LED chips to be used in 400,000 streetlamps, according to market sources.
Taiwan Oasis and Solargiga to co-develop PV-powered LED streetlamps
Jun 18, 14:23
LED packaging house Taiwan Oasis Technology has revealed that it will cooperate with China-based solar wafer maker Solargiga Energy to develop LED streetlamps powered by photovoltaic...
Taiwan LED players eyeing 1.4 million LED streetlamp business from China
Jun 9, 14:44
Taiwan LED players are looking to grab a portion of the 1.4 million LED streetlamp business that the China government plans to install by the end of 2009, according to market sourc...
Taiwan market: Philips eyeing LED streetlamp procurement projects
Jun 2, 15:15
Philips is eyeing Taiwan's LED streetlamp procurement market, and is planning to launch a LED streetlamp in the fourth quarter, according to Philips Taiwan.
SAS to double LED PSS capacity
May 15, 16:13
Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) will double its pattern sapphire substrate (PSS) capacity by the end of 2009 as the company's current capacity is not able to supply...
LED makers expect strong streetlamp shipment growth in 2H09
May 12, 15:21
Taiwan-based LED makers, including Opto Tech, Genesis Photonics and Bright LED Electronics, have all secured, or are negotiating, LED streetlamp orders from clients in China, indicating...
Genesis Photonics wins China LED street lamp orders
Apr 10, 16:10
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Genesis Photonics has secured LED street lamp orders from authorities in northern and eastern China, and is expected to begin shipments later in the quarter,...
AcBel to enter LED streetlamp market
Apr 2, 15:20
Power supply maker AcBel Polytech, a subsidiary of the Kinpo-Compal Group, has announced plans to cut into the LED streetlamp market. However, the company will focus only on the supply...
Commentary: Upstream LED players turning aggressive in downstream lighting market
Apr 1, 10:30
Taiwan LED chipmakers and packaging houses, such as Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy, Everlight Electronics, and Bright LED, are crossing into the general lighting and streetlamp market in...
Para Light to ramp LED lamp production capacity in China
Newswatch - Mar 17, 14:44
Taiwan-based LED packaging company Para Light Electronics will commit an additional US$2.04 million investment in its plant in Lianyungang City, China, in order to ramp up the production...
Power supply maker FSP enters LED streetlamp market
Newswatch - Mar 10, 14:55
Taiwan-based power supply maker FSP Technology has entered the LED streetlamp market, with current shipments reaching 1,000-2,000 units per month, according to market sources.
LED packaging house Everlight sees utilization rate rising on orders from handset market
Mar 4, 12:25
Everlight Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED packaging house, has indicated that its March utilization rate is expected to increase to 60-70% from 50-60% in February, as orders for handset...
Global LED street lamp shipments to more than triple in 2009, says PIDA
Feb 18, 16:12
Global shipments of LED street lamps in 2009 are estimated to grow 224% to 1.46 million units, with total value rising 99% to US$816 million, according to Taiwan's Photonics Industry...
Taiwan market: Government moves to promote LED lighting
Dec 17, 17:40
The Taiwan government is encouraging its offices to replace traditional lighting fixtures with LED ones in order to save energy, while transportation authorities also have plans to...
Delta reportedly forming strategic alliance with LED player
Nov 13, 01:15
Taiwan-based power supply unit (PSU) maker Delta Electronics is reported to have formed a strategic alliance with Taiwan-based LED player Lustrous. Delta will invest to take an around...
Oct 31, 16:27
The Tatung group and phone camera lens kits maker Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) have won orders for Taiwan's largest government project for LED street lamps, winning out for street...
Holy Stone September sales to hit record thanks to recovery of white-box handset market
Oct 3, 01:00
The recovery of the white-box handset market in China after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games drove the September sales of passive component maker Holy Stone Enterprise to hit a monthly...
Demonstration LED street lamp orders picking up, regulations to be released early in January 2009
Sep 25, 12:22
The release time of regulations for LED street lamps in Taiwan has been pushed forward to the end of January in 2009, with several demonstration projects already expected to be launched...
Official regulations for LED street lamps in Taiwan to come in March 2009
Sep 19, 17:03
Official regulations for LED street lamps in Taiwan will be released in March 2009, with industry players expecting governmental orders to help drive Taiwan LED makers' street lamp...
NeoPac Lighting enters Japan LED lighting market in 3Q
Aug 7, 11:34
Taiwan LED maker NeoPac Lighting has received LED MR16 orders for use in temples in Kyoto Japan, and the company estimates it will start volume shipments in the fourth quarter of...
Global LED street lamp market estimate down 49%
Jun 17, 01:05
LED industry players have revised estimates for the 2008 global LED street lamp market to 460,000 units, down 49% from an original forecast of 910,000 units due to high pricing and...
Taiwan hopes to establish LED street lamp standards by 2009
May 29, 01:15
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) hopes to speed up its progress on reaching a set of standards for LED street lamps, in a bid to catch up with the progress of governments...
Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
Bits + chips | 8h 35min ago
Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
LED | 8h 54min ago
Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
Bits + chips | 8h 58min ago
NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
Bits + chips | 9h 8min ago
Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
IT + CE | 10h ago
China-based TV vendors to procure over 30 million panels from Taiwan makers, says CVIA vice president
Displays | 10h 55min ago
Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
Before Going to Press | 9h 45min ago
DRAM shortages to continue for 3 years, says Inotera executive
Before Going to Press | 9h 57min ago
Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
Before Going to Press | 10h 37min ago
Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
Before Going to Press | 10h 49min ago
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
Before Going to Press | 11h 3min ago
Taiwan market: ViewSonic to launch Full HD projectors by end of 2013
Before Going to Press | 11h 9min ago
Foxconn to start production of 70-inch Ultra HD TVs in 1Q14
Before Going to Press | 11h 10min ago
China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
Before Going to Press | 11h 11min ago
JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 11h 16min ago
Everlight SL-Dolphin LED street lights
Everlight Electronics has introduced the SL-Dolphin street light series with 60W, 90W, 120W and 150W LED light engine and light output up to 13,000lm. The brightness and high uniformity...
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- First-tier players may release smartphones that adopt heat pipes by the end of the year
- Chipbond ramping up testing capacity for advanced driver ICs
- Wintek to benefit from Google and Amazon touch panel orders
- CVIA: China to purchase 30 million TV panels from Taiwan makers
- Taiwan makers see booming orders for smartphone tablet accessories
- Taiwan IC design houses reducing exposure in NAND flash controller market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Kinsus sets 2013 capex at record NT$4.5-5 billion
- Taiwan market: Handset shipments in 1Q13 hit record, says IDC
- Asustek expects 10% sequential drop in 2Q13 notebook and tablet shipments
- Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch VoIP at M+
- Mixed-signal technology to dominate global chipset market: Q&A with Dialog Semiconductor CEO Jalal Bagherli
- Taiwan market: Tablet sales in 2013 to reach nearly 2 million units, says FET executive
- SPIL expanding capacity for high-end ICs
- OLED TVs to be similarly priced as LCD TVs by 2016, say observers
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Epistar to issue 250 million new shares for private placement
- Unity Opto profits double in 2012
- New Csun solar manufacturing facility in Turkey opens door for maker
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- AMD unveils upcoming server strategy and roadmap
- Connector maker UDE to benefit from games console orders
- Digitimes Research: China touch panel makers expand their influence in the market
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- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- FIC partners with Cluster Wireless to deliver Intelligent M2M Solutions
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
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- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...
Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.