The latest research by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, sees a significant growth for the infrared (IR) LED market in the near future. “Handheld devices in particular constitute a very promising market because IR LEDs can bring many value-added features to these products, including information security and personal health management,” said LEDinside’s Assistant Research Manager Joanne Wu...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Biing-jye Lee, Chairman of Epistar Co., a high brightness LED epiwafer and chip manufacturer, based in Hsinchu, Taiwan said that depite the emerging red supply chain, as Taiwanese LED companies maintain their technical leading status, there’s a chance in smart lighting of the island...

Samsung Electronics has introduced new chip-on-board (COB) LED package lineups, including small LES (light-emitting surface) COB packages, high CRI (color rendering index) COBs, and vivid COBs. The new COB packages with their outstanding color quality and scaled-down light emitting space, will provide a major design alternative for LED lighting makers...

LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, projects the scale of the infrared (IR) LED market for the surveillance application during the entire year of 2014 to reach US$94 million in its latest report . This recently released analysis also estimates IR LED market scale in surveillance application will furthermore come to US$120 million for 2015...

TAIPEI, Taiwan － Taiwanese LED lighting solutions provider Everlight Electronics yesterday announced the raising of NT$5 billion and a three-year expansion plan. The total amount for the plan will reach NT$10 billion. Earlier, Everlight Electronics’ patent litigation finally came to an end, and the court ruled in favor of Everlight Electronics...

Delta announced it has installed a state-of-the-art LED wall display solution for pitch-side perimeter advertising at Stamford Bridge, home of world-class football team Chelsea Football Club, via its partner and LED systems integration specialist, Visual Technology Ltd (VTL)...

Hua Hong Semiconductor announced that it has achieved mass production of its new-generation ultra-high voltage 0.5um 700V BCD series process platform with over 98% yield. This process platform mainly focuses on the applications of green energy such as AC-DC converters and LED lighting...