Coups de cœur de la semaine du 15 au 19 août
Coups de cœur de la semaine du 15 au 19 août
Highlights this week:
Plusieurs développements intéressants se sont produits dans le secteur OLED cette semaine, avec le gouvernement taïwanais annonçant qu'il versera des $3 milliards pour développer des industries AMOLED et PMOLED flexibles dans le pays. La technologie d'affichage flexible sera co-développée avec l'ITRI, et le gouvernement vise à former une chaîne d'approvisionnement OLED complète à Taïwan et à réduire la dépendance du pays aux importations de matériaux.
Cadillac a également présenté vendredi son concept-car OLED en Californie, where it is employing four large OLED panels for its Escala concept car dashboard.
Back on developments in the LED luminaire sector, GE Lighting has shutdown two traditional luminaire manufacturing plants in Kentucky, U.S. Sliding sales of conventional lighting, and surging LED revenues led the lighting giant to close down the two plants. Philips Lighting and Taiwan-based China Electric, the owner of lighting brand TOA, kicked off their joint lighting design and development center.
Japanese LED manufacturers have also been quite active this week. Leading Japanese UVC LED company Nikkiso announced it will be acquiring AquiSense Technologies, while Nichia announced a major victory against Everlight in German courts. Since Everlight cannot appeal the final decision by the German Federal Court of Justice, it intends to file a new YAG LED patent invalidation lawsuit against Nichia.
Other interesting developments this week, Disney has patented an interesting IR-LED based entertainment system that will make Jedi style light saber fights possible at its future Star Wars area in Disneyland, which LEDinside editorial team projects might benefit IR LED manufacturers, such as Osram or Epistar.