Vertically-integrated LED firm Lextar Electronics has been developing fine-pitch RGB displays for use in commercial space, convention centers and gaming machines, with shipments likely to begin in the second half of 2019, according to company chairman and CEO David Su.
Lextar unveiled an EFP I-Mini RGB display module in the third quarter of 2018, and is developing application of micro LED technology to displays via cooperation with leading panel makers, Su said.
China-based LED chip makers' production capacity expansion has resulted in oversupply, impacting Lextar, Su noted. To cope with it, Lextar has increasingly focused on production of mini LED backlighting, LED automotive lighting modules and niche-market lighting modules, Su indicated.
Lextar began to ship mini LED backlighting units for high-end notebooks and gaming LCD monitors in fourth-quarter 2018, and is developing upgraded models, Su said.
Lextar has started shipments of LED chips used in automotive headlights. It has also begun shipping LED headlight modules to Taiwan- and Europe-based motorcycle makers as well as automotive lamp makers in Japan, Su noted. Such LED headlight modules have also been used in trains in Europe.
Lextar has focused LED lighting business on customized development of lighting modules for medical care, buildings, stages and industrial purposes, Su indicated.
Lextar's consolidated revenues of NT$734.6 million (US$23.3 million) for May decreased 9.96% sequentially and 32.00% on year and those of NT$3.718 billion for January-May slipped 21.24% on year. The company expects second-quarter 2019 consolidated revenues to grow 5-10% sequentially.
Article translated by Adam Hwang
