Monthly Archives: October 2009

LED TV Feature Story (4): An in-dept discussion of the features of LED TVs

Even though ‘LED TV’ is simply marketing buzzword, its advantages outweigh its drawbacks An increasing number of TV vendors, including Sony, Sharp Samsung, and LG, are launching their so-called "LED TV" products on the market. But in fact, LED TV …

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Cooperation to Be the Trend for Taiwan’s LED Industry

Popularity of LED TVs has driven up the demand for LED backlighting, leading to the wave of integration in Taiwan’s LED industry. And the island’s largest LED chipmaker Epistar recently said it is to purchase shares of Tekcore Co through …

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LED TV Feature Story (3): Increasing demand for LED-backlit TVs, LED manufacturers launch capacity expansion plans

Samsung has invested USD 1 billion in its LED TV promotion campaign, bringing such TVs in the limelight of the market since the 2Q09. Other major TV brand vendor also raised their LED TV shipment targets for 2010, and launched …

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LED TV Feature Story (2): The Evolution of LED TV Market – Survival of the Fittest

This articles is contributed by WitsView, an abstract from WitsView’s column, please go to http://www.witsview.com/Intelligence/Column/Default.aspx for the original version. In a consumer electronics market where LCD TV is the central focus, Samsung, the leading global TV manufacturer, managed to jump …

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Taiwan LED Chipmakers Continued to Post Historic High Revenues, observed LEDinside

According to survey of the industry research institute LEDinside, Taiwan's listed LED manufacturers recorded total revenue of NT 6.927 billion in September 2009, a 7.2% growth from August and a 18.9% growth YoY – of which, LED chip makers’ total …

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