GLG News by GPS Experts (North America)

1. This forbes magazione article just begins to touch on a smalll number of commercial building applications that are using LED LIghting to replace more traditional technology such as florescents and incandescents. 2. Firms such as Color Kinetics have been producing color changing LED product for...

1. Cree purchase of LLF in 2007 is allowing Cree to demonstrate feasability of LED commercial lighting. 2. LLF is led by one of the 3 founders of Cree, and holds over 100 WW patents on the creation of white light. 3. LLF fixtures have been rated as some of the best in industry for white light...

1. Most luminaire firms are what the industry calls bulb heads.  They bend sheet metal and plastic, and screw in a bulb of varying technologies -- incandescent, flourescent, metal halogen, etc.  These firms tend to have very little knw how when it comes to implementing LED technology. 2....

1. Toshiba is the number 2 manufacturer of NAND Flash and also the fab partner of SanDisk.  If Toshiba is idling capacity it is most probable that other NAND flash manufactuers will also take some capacity offline. 2. I believe that SanDisk will also annnounce that it will reduce some production...

1. Cree;s  161 lumen device is just a lab creation that is not ready for production.  The color temperature of approx. 4600K makes it unuseable for general purpose lighting. 2. Approximately one year ago Cree demonstrated a 1000 lumen LED that was also a one of kind laboratory creation. 3....

1. If this is an improved phosphor it will improve Seoul's competitve position against Cree, Lumileds. Nichia, etc. 2. Seoul white LED's use blue chips from Cree and other blue LED manufacturers.  The phosphor system placed on the blue chip is what creates the white light in a spectrun of white...

1. The increased speed of USB 3.0 will result in the repacement of USB 2.0 as the standard interface specification in consumer and computer devices. 2. Firewire 400 and 800 specifcations will die a  quick death in the late 2009/2010 time frame being replaced by USB 3.0.

1. Nichia, Avago, and Osram have dominated the U.S. high brightness LED market which has an approximate market size of $250M 2. High brightness LED's should not be confused with Hi-Power LED's which are white an used in interior and exterior lighting applications.

Detroit's Big Three have several obstacles to overcome; the question is will they have the ability to withstand this perfect storm? Consumer confidence is shaken, financing is impossible or difficult, product mix doesn't meet market demands, alternative energy development and emission compliance is...

1. NIchia is very protective of it's intellectual property using legal proceeding to stall competitors from competing in key makrets such as backlighting for notebook computers, and genral purpose lighting. 2. Although some of the NIchia competitors may have violated Nichia intellectual property,...