Building a circuit to blink an LED is the hardware world’s version of the venerable “Hello, world!” program — it teaches you the basics in a friendly, approachable way. And the blinky light project ...

Date Announced: 21 Sep 2010 DURHAM, N.C. — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) continues to lead the LED Lighting Revolution with the announcement of a new 150-mm LED wafer production facility in Research ...

Manufacturers of LEDs and MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) are always concerned about improving yield and quality, and they work to prevent dies with visible defects from entering the expensive ...

Emerald Technology Ventures and others close round aimed at adding capacity for silicon-based LED wafer production at Azzurro Semiconductors. Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based manufacturer of ...

Seeking to reduce the cost of solid-state lighting and related applications, LED manufacturers are taking a page from the IC industry: They are looking at larger wafer sizes and new materials in the ...

SEOUL/TOKYO, March 28 (Reuters) - Samsung LED and Japan's Sumitomo Chemical have agreed to set up a 80 billion won ($72 million) joint venture in Korea to produce sapphire substrates used to make ...

Today, the spotlight beams down brighter than ever on LEDs to provide more energy-efficient, lower-cost illumination. Underscoring that urgency, the International Energy Agency says that lighting ...

Market will grow significantly if costs continue to decrease at current rates, but there is nothing similar to Moore’s Law in this sector. The LED market remains hot, particularly in the solid-state ...

London (Oct. 17, 2013)—Chinese die vendor San’an is projected to take the lead in gallium nitride light-emitting-diode (GaN LED) wafer capacity by the end of 2014, overtaking current leader Epistar of ...

Like it or not, energy-saver light bulbs are about to become the next big thing. Starting next year, lighting manufacturers will begin a government-sanctioned phase out of incandescent bulbs that ...