LED Worklights Blog March Archive

Samsung to set up LED business

03/27/09 23:39

Samsung Electronics and affiliate Samsung Electro-Mechanics have agreed to team up in creating a joint venture that will create light-emitting diodes. The company, initially called Samsung LED, will be launched this April.

Just last year, the global LED industry raked in $22 billion, and is expected to grow further in the coming years. These diodes are also considered environment-friendly and longer-lasting that their fluorescent counterparts.

Link: Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

Flickerless LED to replace incandesen halogen lights

National Semiconductor has now successfully develop a LED controller that would eliminate flicker during a full-range dimming of LED lights. Their LM3445 will enable consumers to replace high power consuming halogen bulbs with LEDs in homes and any other application. The LED controller can have as much as 60 LEDs system by using the company's Webench LED Designer suit of tools handy.

Link: LED Driver Offers Full-Range, Flicker-Free Dimming - 2009-02-18 15:27:54 - Design News

140,000 LED Streetlights in L.A.

About 140,000 existing streetlights will be replaced in a five-year project in the Los Angeles. The funding would come from former president Bill Clinton's charitable foundation. The LED streetlights would cut the power usage of the current streetlights to about 40 percent that could save $48 million in the first 7 years and $10 a year succeeding.

Link: Rapid Electronics - Los Angeles to switch on 140,000 LED street lights

South Korean LED Boom: Is it too fast?

Demand green energy surely has paid off for South Korea, which has become a pioneer in LED lighting. To illustrate, South Korean companies that are engaged in production found their stocks valued at least 50% greater than their values a few months ago.

Now the big question: How much growth is too much? Can the demand for LED products keep up with the price of stocks or is this just another bubble in formation--The Green Bubble?

Link: BUY OR SELL-South Korea LED boom: too far, too fast? | Reuters