The board of directors of LED chipmaker Epistar has approved the issue of euro convertible bonds (ECBs) worth US$280 million, mainly for paying back previous US dollar-based loans...
China's LED industry is expected to install 700-800 units of MOCVD equipment in 2011 compared to 330 units installed in 2010, a trend which is likely to enable China's LED industry...
In order to support operations and revenues during the LED weak season in the fourth quarter of 2010, backlight unit (BLU) makers have started to provide price-cut promotions for...
A number of Taiwan-based LED chipmakers and packaging companies are strengthening their deployments in the LED lighting segment as the market is expected to grow over 50% in 2011,...
Though LED chip packaging houses mostly saw revenues bounce back in October and November, chip makers still registered weak sales for November with modest decline to flat growth.
LED chipmaker Tekcore will sign a NT$3.8 billion (US$124.53 million) syndicated loan with a banking consortium on December 2. The new funds will be used to build a new plant as well...
LED chipmaker Epistar has denied media reports from South Korea that Epistar, Lumens and backlight unit (BLU) maker Hansol LCD will invest 10 billion won (US$8.84 million), 30 billion...
LED chipmaker Epistar has developed LEDs with 162 lumen per watt of brightness efficiency (after packaging), which the chipmaker claims to be the best brightness efficiency worldwide,...
Taiwan-based LED chipmakers Epistar and Lextar Electronics and LED packaging houses Everlight Electronics saw October 2010 revenues drop sequentially by 7%, 37.51% and 10.63%, respectively,...
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Tyntek has announced plans to invest 153 million yuan (US$4.94 million) to set up a LED production joint venture with the Fuzhou government in China.
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy has posted revenues of NT$401 million (US$13 million) for September, decreasing 20% sequentially but increasing 65.7% on year.
Most Taiwan-based LED companies saw their revenues decline sequentially in September due to inventory adjustment in the LCD TV segment, with LED chip packager Everlight Electronics...
LED chipmakers including Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy and Tekcore expect revenues in September to continue to drop amid dropping demand for TV backlighting, and gross margins for the...
LED epitaxial wafer and chipmaker Lextar Electronics, an subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), has announced that its chairman HB Chen will resign his seat on the board of directors and...
