During an interview with the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN), Biing-Jye Lee, the chairman of LED specialist Epistar, recently confirmed that blue LEDs in the market are now in short supply and the company's capacity for the segment is now lagging demand by 30%-40%. He also indicated that the demand-supply situation for blue LEDs will become balanced in April 2008, the paper noted.
Epistar currently has a monthly capacity of nearly 900 million blue LEDs, the paper said citing Lee as saying.
Article translated by Emily Chuang and edited by Eric Mah
