Both Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. and Epistar Corp. saw their 2013 revenue surge past the NT$20 billion (US$666.6 million) mark to hit new highs, with December revenues topping expectations. Everlight, the world’s No.1 LED packager by volume, had revenue of NT$24.6 billion (US$823 million) by the end of 2013, up 29.58% year on year. Although the company’s revenue for the fourth quarter c...

Bright forecasts for the LED lighting market in 2014 have inspired LED makers LiteOn Technology Corp., Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., and Epistar Corp. to ramp up promotions of competitive products. According to market consultant LEDinside, an estimated 1.3 billion LED lamps will be shipped worldwide in 2014, up 68% from 2013. The Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) of Taiwan governm...

Looking back at the development of the LED industries in Taiwan and China throughout 2013, industry executives generally paint a picture of the Law of the Jungle, with restructuring taking the form of big players encroaching on territories of weaker competitors, similar players banding against primary competitors, and struggling manufacturers choosing to exit. Market consultant LEDinside feels...

With Cree cutting prices of its 60W and 40W replacement LED bulbs by at least 70% as of November 2013 from the same month of 2007, Taiwan’s LED bulb makers are struggling to follow suit to shore up shipment volume, sparking buzz that in 2014 household LED lamps will become major revenue generator for them. Industry executives say the island’s LED makers involved in bulb manufacturing include p...

Lighting-fixture heavyweights in the United States and Europe searching for LED chips in Asia to offset inadequate in-house LED device productions are approaching Taiwanese maker Epistar Corp., the world’s No.1 blue-chip maker by quantity. Acuity, Cooper, Hubbell, and Philips together command half of the North American lighting fixture market. Acuity, Cooper, and Hubbell do not have in-house ...

C.F. Lin, chairman of the Cross-Strait Lighting Committee of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA), recently brightened up a committee meeting by making such comments as “The lighting business is better in 2013 than in 2012”; “Almost every Taiwanese manufacturer in this line has grown this year”; and “LED lighting still has 15 years of space for development.” These statements ref...

The “Temple of Light,” a result of collaboration between Tainan City Government’s Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Coretronic Culture and Arts Foundation (CCAF), formally lit up in mid-September, 2013 year after two years of planning and preparation. The Temple of Light is actually the historic Wind God Temple, the only shrine in Tainan devoted primarily to the worship of the Wind God, transfo...

Anyone traveling along section three of Zhongshan North Road in Taipei recently would certainly have noticed that there is a new addition to the buildings clustered in the flower, art, and culture area which includes Flower Expo Park, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Zhongshan Soccer Stadium. The new addition is a white-walled structure in front of the arts museum, with faintly discernible large glas...

Nanya Photonics Inc. (NYPI), an LED subsidiary co-owned by the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) and Epistar Corp., saw LED light bulb orders nearly double in the first half of this year relative to the second half of last year mostly thanks to automated assembly, reportedly the world’s first. The line will turn out 4 million bulbs with consistent quality a month, motivating retailers to raise or...

Dr. Jacob Tarn, president of TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd. (TSMC SSL), is confident that his company will soon achieve to a top position in LED lighting despite its relatively late entry into the industry. It was founded by semiconductor foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. only in 2011. Tarn’s confidence is based on his company’s unique processing technology and highly integr...