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• LED chipmakers look to higher luminance products for backlights
  Friday 8 July 2005 – 04:16
  Faced with declining prices in the handset-use panel market for 1,000 millicandela (mcd) blue LEDs, Epistar sees strong potential for high-luminance 1,200mcd LEDs.
• Panel makers eyeing alternative backlighting technologies
  Tuesday 28 March 2006 – 06:12
  Taiwan-based AU Optronics (AUO), Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) and Quanta Display have reportedly participated in LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy's recently applied capital increase and ECB (euro convertible bond) issue, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times and Apple Daily .
• Backlight unit makers to focus more on LCD TV application
  Friday 24 March 2006 – 04:43
  Taiwan-based backlight unit (BLU) makers Kenmos Technology, Radiant Opto-Electronics and Forhouse all expect to increase shipments for their LCD TV application this year, according to the companies.
• LCD TV segment to account for half of revenues of large backlight units
  Thursday 16 March 2006 – 03:19
  Shipments of backlight units (BLUs) for large-size LCD panels totaled 206.6 million units worldwide in 2005, and demand is expected to increase 28.3% this year to 265 million units, according to market research firm Displaybank.
• LED backlights to penetrate notebook market
  Tuesday 18 July 2006 – 04:06
  LED backlights introduced by various TFT LCD panel and backlight unit (BLU) makers where on display at various flat panel display exhibitions this year, such as Finetech Japan & Display 2006 (April 19-21), Computex 2006 (June 6-10) and FPD Taiwan 2006 (June 14-16), according to research firm WitsView Technology.