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Tuesday 10 July 2018
Nichia to exclusively supply 0.3t LED chips for 6.1-inch iPhone
Japan-based Nichia will become the exclusive supplier of 0.3t LED chips for use in backlighting of LTPS-LCD panels of the new 6.1-inch iPhone to be launched in the third quarter of...
Monday 2 July 2018
Nichia to set up joint venture in China
Japan-based Nichia will establish a joint venture to produce LED backlighting for smartphones and automotive lighting in southern China in second-half 2018, according to Nichia Taiwan...
Tuesday 26 June 2018
MLS leapfrogs Nichia to top of China LED packaging market in 2017
China-based LED packaging service provider MLS occupied 8.5% of China's LED packaging market value of CNY65.9 billion (US$9.75 billion) in 2017, surpassing Japan-based Nichia for...
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Digitimes Research: Nichia tops LED packagers in 1H17 revenues
Japan-based Nichia recorded the highest revenues among all main LED packaging service providers worldwide in first-half 2017, with sales reaching JPY132.79 billion (US$1.142 billion),...
Monday 16 October 2017
Osram Opto Semiconductors to start production at new Malaysia plant
Germany-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Osram Opto Semiconductors will inaugurate a new factory in Kulim, Malaysia, on November 23, 2017, posing challenges to competitors...
Thursday 13 July 2017
Nichia wins lawsuit against WOFI, sues HTC regarding patent infringement in Germany
The District Court of Dusseldorf in Germany has judged that WOFI Leuchten Wortmann & Filz GmbH, a residential lighting subsidiary of Taiwan-based LED packaging service provider...
Tuesday 4 July 2017
China LED industry recovering
As demand for LED end devices has resumed growth amid shortages of LED chip supply, China's LED makers have recently begun expanding their capacities and local governments are also...
Wednesday 7 June 2017
Germany upholds preliminary injunction to ban sale of Everlight white LED products
The Dusseldorf District Court in Germany has maintained its preliminary injunction to prohibit Taiwan-based LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics from selling three...
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Nichia wins patent infringement lawsuit against Everlight in US
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a district court's judgment that Taiwan-based LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics and its US-based subsidiary...
Monday 8 May 2017
Everlight sues Nichia for alleged patent infringement in Japan
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has filed with the Tokyo District Court in Japan charges against Japan-based Nichia, Citizen Electronics and Daiko Electronics...
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Digitimes Research: Nichia tops LED packagers in 2016 revenue
Japan-based Nichia generated revenues of US$2.423 billion from LED packaging in 2016, the highest among all LED packaging service providers around the world, according to Digitimes...
Friday 17 March 2017
Nichia, Osram promoting laser diode-based projectors
Nichia and Osram Opto Semiconductors are looking to boost adoption of laser diode lighting sources for projectors, and as a result, many projector vendors, including ViewSonic, Seiko...
Thursday 9 March 2017
Harvatek infringes on Nichia patent in Germany
The Dusseldorf Court of Appeal in Germany has confirmed the infringement of Japan-based Nichia's YAG (a material used to make white LED chips) Patent EP 0 936 682 (DE 697 02 929)...
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Everlight sees setback in patent lawsuit with Nichia in Germany
Everlight Electronics has maintained that it could still appeal against a German court ruling that favors Nichia in a LED patent lawsuit between the two companies.
Wednesday 11 January 2017
Germany appeal court backs Nichia infringement case against Everlight
A Germany court of appeal has upheld a ruling in favor of Japan-based Nichia's LED patent infringement case against Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics.