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12/10/2013 14:46

GE lighting launches multi-functional LED lighting to capture the mass market

Driven by the innovation, GE lighting has developed some LED products that can meet the consumer’s demand and the application of general market. GE lighting and its major wholesalers have introduced a new LED product line, so as to provide a wide range of high quality and practical LED lighting solution with the most preferential price, and then promote the mainstream applications.

In the next four months, GE lighting plans to introduce six new LED bulbs with different LED diodes. These latest lighting solutions include: 2 low-cost, 40 w and 60 w LED bulb succedaneums which can provide the same warmth downy white light with a dimming function. A wireless adjustable indoor LED flood light, it has a great convenience for those consumers who don't want to wiring, because it does not need to connect the socket to dimmer switch. The rest is three kinds of GE’s reveal LED bulbs which are applied to 40 w and 60 w substitutes and flood light. These three kinds of bulbs which combine two most innovative lighting technologies, GE’s reveal and LED, not only can save energy, but also can provide the same clean and beautiful light as GE lighting’s reveal branded products, in order to highlight vivid colors and patterns.

The general manager of North American consumers lighting, John Strainic said: "we has a long history in providing customers with a variety of lighting choices, now we have launched a highly efficient energy-saving LED lighting products. GE lighting will continue to develop new technology, and provide consumers with practical lighting choice." "In GE, we are committed to provide high quality products, these products are researched and developed base on advanced technology and strict inspection standard, to lead the momentum of development and meet the modern consumers’ demand." The innovation general manager of GE lighting, Tom Boyle explains that: "we are in a family integration era, the smart devices are in constant development and extension, and we want to build a LED lighting upgrade experience for the consumer which belong to their own."

Compared with traditional incandescent bulbs, these new series of LED products can save up to 80% of the energy, make contributions to GE lighting’s existing series. GE lighting has released residential and commercial lighting products, from the first high quality Energy Star A19 model LED bulb to LED lightings that used in construction, so as to provide retail, commercial and industrial applications.

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11/10/2013 14:21

China's LED lighting market is still in short supply

 With the falling prices of LED lighting products, the company's sales have appeared in the explosive growth. The chairman of KINGSUN OPTOELECTRONIC CO. LTD. Li Xuliang said that at present, the company is full load production for 24 hours, but still can't satisfy the customer demand, so we need to outsource some production links.

Since the beginning of this year, traditional enterprises strengthen the transformation of the LED lighting. After May, the industry appeared a significant turning point, and the industry entrepreneurs and experts have never expected this phenomenon. Everyone thought the industry transition will appear in 2014, but now there are many very obvious signs have showed that the LED lighting market is in short supply.

This phenomenon has two main reasons behind it. One reason relates to the launch of indoor lighting market, the second is the domestic LED lighting enterprises especially the upstream was manufacture inadequate. Since last year, because of the lower profit, a glut on the market, domestic manufacturers generally manufacture inadequate, equipments basically didn't run 100%, and the market supply and demand kept balanced. This year, the demand of market increases suddenly, but it needs a process for the equipment to completely start production. The capacity temporarily couldn't keep up with, so the market appeared in short supply situation.

The Vice President of China’s lighting appliances association, Wang Haibo also agreed with the point. On the one hand, recently, the market situation is bad, the industrial chain are basically manufacturing according to sale, dare not to have inventory. For example, the time for chip manufacturers to start manufacture generally less than 50%. On the other hand, the cost performance of LED lighting products makes it has the basic conditions of the marketing sales, the average consumers also accept the price. After all, its price is not much higher than energy-saving lamps.

The promoted cost performance of LED lighting products is the important reason for the rapid growth of the market. With the falling price of LED lighting products, they have been widely used in all fields. From the point of the domestic market, previously LED lighting products are mainly used in engineering, such as hotels, shopping malls, parking lots, etc. Such as LED display screen and LED decorative lighting. But, now more and more family consumers use LED lighting products, such as LED table lamp and LED fancy lamp. From the foreign market, the demand of LED lighting products also has maintained growth, and the growth had been very obvious since last year.

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10/10/2013 11:51

Practical and decorative LED lighting

LED lighting is a new kind of lighting product, it is one kind of lamp which based on LED (light emitting diode) light source. LED lights have been widely used as large advertising light boxes, road lights, stage lighting, etc. Now LED lighting has entered into our home life, the characteristics of energy conservation and environmental protection, makes it will fully replace the energy saving lamps in the next few decades.

The LED lamp is acted the role of both practicability and decorative.

The bedroom is like public construction, LED indoor lighting plays the role of practicability and decorative. We can get a best effect if we handle well the relationship between practicability and decorative.

The practicability of LED lighting can assure indoor illume use, ensure eye of consumed sanitation, protect eyes and eyesight, smooth color without having unusual psychology or physiology reaction. Lamps and lanterns is firm, its circuit is safe and the switch is flexible. And in a sense, the decorative of lamps and lanterns is its practicability; otherwise, decorative problem is impossible. For instance, if we use lamps and lanterns to decorate a bedroom, we can relax our body and mind while we enjoying it, this kind of lighting effect is actually acting the role of real value of decorative.

One of LED lighting’s decorative character is the ornamental value, the material of lamps and lanterns is beautiful, chic modeling and brilliant color. The second one is coordination, arrange the lamp form passes elaborate design, coordinated with room decoration, and furniture furnishings form a complete set of design. The consistency between modeling of lamps material and the modeling material of furniture can reflect master's artistic conception. The third is outstanding individual character, change illuminant color according to people's need to create some kind of atmosphere, like enthusiastic, composed, comfortable, quiet, peaceful, and so on. Highlight the master’s particularity of the requirement to the lamps and reveals different personalities. Nowadays, LED decorative lighting has been widely used in every field, we can find its appearance everywhere.

On the premise that assures lighting, people can have a artistic enjoyment, this is the lamp’s unity between practicability and decorative. Specific to each lamp, some lamps have lay particular stress on illumination; some have lay particular stress on at adornment while others get have both. When we make the choices, we should combine the characteristics of different people, different uses and interior decoration require comprehensive consideration.

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09/10/2013 11:27

Latest version Android4.3 platform will native support Bluetooth Smart Ready

Google released the latest version of Android operating system Android4.3 - Jelly Bean on July 24. Android 4.3 can support for Bluetooth Smart Ready technology. Google also launched new Nexus 7 tablets and Nexus 4 Smart phones which are the first equipment to run the upgrade version of operating system. The appearance of Android 4.3 makes Android Smartphone or tablets become Bluetooth Smart Ready device which equip with dual mode of Bluetooth chip, and then connected to other Bluetooth Smart devices, reduce the energy consumption when calculating the data transmission. Developers can make full use of advantage of new system with this upgrade version, grasp huge market opportunity of the new generation of Bluetooth Smart application.

The chief marketing officer of Bluetooth SIG, Suke Jawanda said: "this year we have seen hundreds of Bluetooth products, including the digital equipments like family automatic lock, pedometer, shoes, medical equipment, fitness sensors, football, or even a flower pot, these products all adopt the Bluetooth Smart ultra-low power technology. Now this is just a beginning, we are looking forward to combining the latest version of Android platform and Bluetooth Smart Ready technology together to create innovation."

After the launch of Android 4.3, Bluetooth Smart developers can more easily to let the equipments connect with Android applications, can also use the new Android application program interface to read the data collected by other Bluetooth Smart application equipments, for example, we can collect data from fitness monitor and medical equipment through the operation of the application on Bluetooth Smart Ready products such as Smart phone, tablets and audio equipments. In the future, as long as consumers upgrade to Android4.3 operating system, combining with the Android applications which relate to Bluetooth Smart sensor devices, Smart phones and computer products will play a more powerful function.

The developer program director of Bluetooth SIG, Steve Hegenderfer said: "when it announced to consolidate Bluetooth Smart Ready in the Google developers conference, the atmosphere of excitement is exciting, which made me believe that there are many Android applications which fit consumers are under development. Our developer platform includes the tutorials for Android and other operating system, BBS, quick start guide and compiler, hoping to help developers promote Bluetooth innovation products to the market faster." Bluetooth SIG will also open to register to download Bluetooth Application Accelerator of Android, apple and Microsoft systems, it includes the application program and the corresponding instruction generation source, the documents and profiles of main functions.

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08/10/2013 15:52

IKEA will only sell LED lighting products in 2016

LED lighting is a new kind of lighting product, it is one kind of lamp which based on LED (light emitting diode) light source. LED lights have been widely used as large advertising light boxes, road lights, stage lighting, etc. Now LED lighting has entered into our home life, the characteristics of energy conservation and environmental protection, makes it will fully replace the energy saving lamps in the next few decades.

The world's largest furniture retailer IKEA plans to replace all lighting products with LED lights in 2016, to show support for the LED lighting revolution.

IKEA said, in order to let millions of people live a more sustainable home life and save their electricity bills, the LED lightings they sell will be a lower price on the market. IKEA will start the activity from herself, all the lighting in the shop will be replaced with LED lights, or other more energy-saving lamps and lanterns.

The chief officer of sustainable development of IKEA group, Steve Howard said: "the LED is a lighting revolution. As the numbers on family electricity bills rising rapidly, the global energy consumption increasing continuously, the positive effects that a small LED bulbs brings is unprecedented. It is more energy saving than traditional incandescent lamp, and has brought so many new possibilities for household adornment. Based on a strong faith that all of us should have the ability to live a more sustainable home life, we will ensure the prices of LED bulbs that IKEA selling will be lower than the market’s general prices." LED lighting will be widely used in the fields of LED indoor lighting, LED outdoor lighting, and so on.

IKEA said that, in theory, a LED bulb’s life can reach 20 years or so, and LED bulbs consume energy 85% less than incandescent bulbs. At present, only the LED bulb that produced by PHILIPS can reach this level of service life, but its $20 to 60 price has made numerous consumers cannot afford to buy.

For now, it is not clear that IKEA will make what kind of price positioning about LED bulbs, but even IKEA sells LED lighting products with the best price to consumers, I'm afraid it will make many consumers can't accept it, either. But it is worth mentioning that as early as 2010, IKEA announced the company plans to full halt to the sale of incandescent bulbs in its North American retail store since 2011, it also laid the groundwork for the LED lighting products to be replaced.

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30/09/2013 16:02

The development prospect of LED lighting market

 The continuous development of LED lighting lamps and lanterns, especially in the next five years, the prospect of backlit field market is considerable, and more and more common lighting areas show strong growth momentum in the prediction of lamps and lanterns.

By comparing with the equal function traditional lamps, the whole cycle cost of LED energy-saving lamp, LED spot lights, LED tube are significantly lower than the traditional lighting. LED lighting has obvious competitive advantage. Though the total life cycle cost of the LED straight lamp is equal to traditional lighting, it is expected to have more obvious cost advantage and achieve a replace using promotion at last.

In the field of outdoor lighting, the cost of LED street light and LED tunnel light are lower than the traditional lighting, their cost gap is about 30%, the competitive advantage of LED street light and LED tunnel light has been revealed. According to the development trend of cheaper LED lighting lamps and higher performance, the whole life cycle of comprehensive cost of most LED lamps and lanterns will be significantly lower than the traditional, and become the mainstream of lighting source in 2013.

As a rising star in the field of lighting, the prospect of LED lamp is very good, the government’s relevant departments are also vigorously promote the development of LED industry. In 2009, the Chinese government had launched a semiconductor lighting project. The first stage of the plan is to promote LED lights in 21 developed cities, the second stage is to installed 2 million LED tubes in 50 cities, and achieve the goal to saving 1 billion degrees of electricity.

China’s LED lighting application market has began to form, with the Chinese government’s support policy and tax benefit, the domestic LED lighting application market will have a rapid growth in two years. With the improvement of product performance and decreased manufacturing cost of semiconductor lighting, and the perfect relevant application environment, LED lighting applications will maintain a high growth during 2011 and 2015. A good industry environment is also good for the development of LED lighting. Such as standards, product certification, testing, engineering design, demonstration and related policy.

According to the data of lamps and lanterns, its share in the lighting market will increase to around 30% in 2015, and it will become one of the most competitive mainstream lighting sources. LED will be the future of lighting, includes LED indoor lighting, LED outdoor lighting, LED decorative lighting, and so on.

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29/09/2013 10:18

LG electronics debuts curved OLED TV in China

 On September 13, 2013, LG electronics launched the curved OLED TV in Beijing. And it’s the first time for LG to formally debuts new products in the Chinese market and uncovered this future TV’s veil to Chinese consumers. As the world's first OLED TV which adopts curved design, LG curved OLED TV had already gotten great response in South Korea, the United States and Europe. LG curved OLED TV is a TV that beyond the current display technology, as the first curved OLED TV of China and the world, this product will give consumers bringing unparalleled, transcendental and free from vulgarity viewing experience.

With the constant development of modern science and technology, as the center of home entertainment, television has always been an indispensable part of people's life, but also is a brand highland that technology manufacturers vying for. And the improvement of traditional TV will finally has an end, LG electronics’ curved OLED TV opens a new door for the whole industry, and brings TV into new era. Comparing with the traditional LED technology, OLED technology can emit light directly without backlight. LG curved OLED TV which is created on the basis of OLED technology, not only has super high contrast and super wide viewing angle, but also has surface, ultra-thin shape. These features have shocked the entire technology industry. At the same time, LG electronics’ original WRGB four color technology makes it beyond the scope of human eyes identification for the TV. The super wide color gamut makes imaging more lifelike. With about 4.3 mm thickness of ultra-thin fuselage, curved surface screen and transparent base, LG curved OLED TV looks like a future window floating in the air.

As the world's first manufacturers to achieve production of curved OLED TV, LG electronics not only shows the excellent technology R&D ability, but also shows an industry leader’s responsibility to rapid the development of science and technology. This curved OLED TV creates the ergonomic design of curved surface screen, and achieves 4.3 mm slim body at the same time. It shows the powerful advantages of OLED technology incisively and vividly. At the meantime, LG electronics builds the surface screen is not aim to show off technology, but fully considerate human eyes to watch comfortably, the screen is consistent with the distance between each point and the human eyes, thus reducing the image deformation, and bring more perfect presence.

LG Corporation’s businesses include mobile phone manufactures, CCTV products, audio equipments and other digital equipments. We believe that LG will bring more and more innovative products to us.

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27/09/2013 11:32

The market penetration of LED lamps and lanterns will reach 16.8% in 2015

 The good prospect for the development of LED lighting industry enables people to have confidence in the LED lighting market. Under the condition of the energy shortage in the 21st century and national government support to promote energy conservation and environmental protection policies, many enterprises continuously increase investment and support in the LED lighting market. At first, it was widely used in LED outdoor lighting such as road lighting, landscape lighting and so on. With the rapid development of LED lighting lamps and lanterns, the application of LED lighting lamps and lanterns had promoted to be used in the field with huge potential, such as LED indoor lighting (the ordinary household lighting), commercial lighting, etc.

Now LED lamps and lanterns are being widely applied to civil lighting areas. Although LED lighting is mainly given priority to road lights and commercial lighting in the market, LED panel lights and LED tube, with the functions of dimming and color modulation, have attracted the people’s attention. The price is still an obstacle for LED lamps. As the main factors to stop the promotion of LED lighting, the high prices have kept this new type of energy saving and environmental protection lamps and lanterns outside the civilian market. According to the insider’s introduction, LDE lighting lamps and lanterns are used sapphire substrate as a chip substrate and must use gold to create electric conduction; all of these advantages make it no doubt to become a "noble" lamps and lanterns.

The market penetration of LED lighting market is expected to reach 16.8% in 2015. A report also noted that under the government's stimulus policy, the application permeability of LED in the fields of household lighting and street lighting will be improved, such as mainland China's 12th five-year plan, and Taiwan’s LED subsidy policy, these policy benefits also include commercial lighting. LED bulb and LED fluorescent tube are growing year by year in Japanese market, the main reason is that since the earthquake in March 2011 after, the Japanese government launched the subsidy policy and increased energy saving consciousness. At the same time, many new LED suppliers are going to join the business war, and soon began to produce. With the calculation of 500 x500 micron chip size, the overall supply of LED lighting grew 41% in 2011, but by contrast, the demand only grew 10%, thus furnishing the oversupply of 2011. Anyway, the competition is good for consumers to buy high quality LED lamps with lower price.

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26/09/2013 10:40

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is equipped with Synaptics Corporation’s 3D touch technology

Synaptics Corporation is a leading developer in man-machine interface solution, its science and technology design center network has spread all over the world. Synaptics can provide world-class global engineering technical support and industry leading design tool, to help partners quickly and efficiently implement transformative man-machine interface solutions. Recently, Synaptics announced that Samsung has chosen the industry's leading high-performance embedded capacitive touch solution, ClearPad ®, as user interface control components of Galaxy Note 3. The solution especially choose Synaptics’s, 3D-touch ™ technology.

As we all know, Samsung is good at mobile phone manufactures and its products are always brilliant. Synaptics closely cooperate with Samsung. Based on Synaptics’s 3D-touch technology, Samsung has developed the function of Air View, and has been used in Samsung Galaxy S4 which was released in March of this year. ClearPad display integration solutions add multiple user interface control methods, such as the functions of "near", "Air Gesture" and "air lines". The high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and exclusive advanced algorithm of ClearPad series ensure the users still can get a perfect multi-touch experience under the condition of the humid environment or wearing gloves. ClearPad also supports the identification of stylus and fingers touch at the same time, and then meet the consumer’s demand for a variety of precision input selection.

Galaxy Note 3 is equipped with a 5.7 inch Super AMOLED HD display screen and 3200mAh lithium battery, so you don’t have to worry the phone will power off quickly. However, you’d better bring a portable power bank when you go out for a trip. With "Air View" function which is based on Synaptics Corporation’s 3D touch technology, Galaxy Note 3 will bring the unique interface experience to the user. The users just need to suspend their fingers above the screen in a certain distance, they can preview email, S Planner, photo and video content without opening a document. This feature even can magnify the preview web pages or view the stored number in quick dialing page.

The senior vice President and general manager of Intelligent display department, Kevin Barber said: "Our support for Samsung products covers the tablet, entry-level smartphone and its flagship smartphone, we will let every consumer can share Synaptics Corporation’s latest development results." "Synaptics will continue to provide the industry's leading solutions, and integrated into a variety of innovative technologies, such as our 3D touch technology." 

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25/09/2013 11:17

The scale of lighting industry will grow to 500 billion Yuan in 2015

From the 18th Guangzhou International lighting fair, we know that the entire lighting industry scale of China is close to 300 billion Yuan last year. This year it will grow to 300 billion to 400 billion Yuan, and it is expected to increase to 500 billion Yuan by 2015, the future LED production and market demand will be higher.

After suffering a short winter last year, the growth of the market has made LED recovery this year. In the first half of this year, according to organizers, most LED enterprises operating in good condition, many companies look good on the LED market, and they have made expansion plan. Despite the good market prospects, the problem of excess production capacity still exists. Industry experts said that the threshold of LED lighting industry is low, and the government also provides high subsidies and preferential tax policy. All of these factors make a large number of enterprises enter into LED lighting industry, and then resulting in low-end products severe overcapacity.

A number of small and medium enterprises and small workshops have a large "damage" to the market.

LED excess capacity is mainly due to too many companies. China has more than 7000 registered LED companies, plus some not registered small workshops and other working groups, it is countless for those engaged in LED lighting industry enterprise. The existence of many small and medium enterprises and small workshops make low-end products serious excess capacity, which can lead to a vicious price competition. It is known that in just two years, the prices of LED lighting products had experienced a "roller coaster", the market price from the original 180 Yuan has low to 20 ~ 30 Yuan. At the same time, there are a lot of low-cost low-quality products sell for 10 ~ 15 Yuan on the market (such as cheap LED tube and LED bulb). A CEO of well-known enterprise said anxiously, now the price of LED lighting is lower, but the quality is worse, the LED enterprise does not agree with the value of it at all. He believes that only when the companies and consumers agree with the value of LED, they can accept the price naturally; we cannot blindly rely on low prices to win the market.

Future market leaves to the enterprises that have brand and independent innovation ability.

It is known that 80% of China's industrial lighting will be replaced by LED products in the next eight years (such as LED tunnel light and LED high bay light), the replace period for lighting products have come. At the same time, there are about 30% ~ 70% of small and medium LED enterprises will be eliminated by the market. Guangzhou international lighting fair is to guide the industry to the healthy and sustainable development. LED is a revolution of light source technology, the future of the market must belong to those enterprises with brand, scale, channel and innovational products.

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