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Acme Electronics Add Sapphire Capacity

December 16, 2009

Acme Electronics, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of inductors, plans to double its sapphire crystal substrate capacity in 2010. This is in response to an increase for LED demand. Acme expects its sapphire crystal production line running at full utilization through Q2′10.
MORE THAN DOUBLE: The company’s capacity will hit 80,000mm per month by year’s end and up [...]

HannStar Display Strengthen LED Supply

December 14, 2009

HannStar Display will strengthen its LED supply chain by investing in Unity Opto Technology. The Taiwan-based LCD manufacturer will invest NT$1.21 billion (about US$37.5 million) to purchase 60% of the 50 million new shares that Unity Opto will be placing at NT$40.24 per share. Unity Opto is a LED packing company based in Taiwan and [...]

Bayer Media Facade: 5.6 Million LED by ag4 media

October 12, 2009

This is probably the largest digital signage application in the world! Bayer’s former HQ in Leverkusen, Germany has been adorned by 5.6 million LEDs. ag4 media covered the entire 17,500 square meters of the building that can be used as really large advertisements and they look fantastic.
Source:

“Bayer’s ‘Media Facade’ redefines building-vertising” – Engadget
“Media Facade Bayer” [...]

LED Monitor?

September 25, 2009

In my mailbag today, I received a question from Joe W. regarding the topic of the “LED Monitor”. Yesterday I wrote a piece titled “BenQ V2400 Eco: 24-inch LCD Monitor with LED Backlight“. In it I expressed my dissatisfaction with BenQ’s use of the term “LED monitor” to describe its V2400 Eco. I also pointed [...]

Samsung XL2370: 23-inch 1080p LCD Monitor with LED Backlight Available in Taiwan

September 21, 2009

Lucky Taiwan Samsung’s XL2370 is a 23-inch 1080p LCD monitor but with a LED backlight. The company introduced the XL2370 in Taiwan. More LCD monitors with LED backlights from 19- to 27-inch in size are expected to be hitting the market in 2010.
White & Edge The LED backlight makes use of white LEDs and are [...]

Notes: 2009 DisplaySearch TV Ecosystem Conference

September 2, 2009

It’s 9:30am and traffic wasn’t too bad on 280 South getting to downtown San Jose. I like moving about after everyone gets to work. So here I am at the San Jose Marriott and listening… Come back often as I will be updating this post throughout the day.
Higher Data Rates Larger TVs will require higher [...]

HannStar: 100-percent LED-backlit LCD Monitor Panels in 2010

August 3, 2009

No Big Deal HannStar is a tiny player in the overall TFT LCD panel industry with a 2.19-percent share in terms of revenues according to DisplaySearch’s PanelTrack June 2009 results. And that’s large-area and small/medium LCD panels combined. When it comes to just large-area HannStar’s share is even smaller at 1.85-percent. HannStar’s president David Joe [...]

100-percent LED Backlights in 2012 for Notebook PCs

July 29, 2009

100-percent According to DisplaySearch, 52-percent of notebook PCs in 2009 will sport a LED backlight. That number will hit 100-percent in 2012. This is good news for companies involved in the LED backlight supply chain and bad news for companies still trying to make a buck with CCFL backlights. But not really.
1-percent That’s the percent [...]

LED TV?

June 23, 2009

According to Samsung, its “LED TV” is “a whole new species of television”. Well, sorry to burst anyone’s bubble, but it isn’t really a LED TV and it really isn’t a whole new species of television. Samsung’s LED TV is really a LCD TV. To be more specific, it is a LCD TV with a [...]

AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) will Launch LED Backlit LCD TV Panels in Second Half of 2009

May 6, 2009

AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) are the two largest Taiwan-based LCD suppliers that go head-to-head with the likes of Samsung and LG Display in terms of LCD panel manufacturing capacity. These two giants are currently finetuning their LCD fabs to mass manufacture LCD TV with LED backlights in the second half of [...]


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