Wider use in general lighting for homes and businesses has been held back by high prices, poor light quality and bad colors.

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"I fell in love with the LED general lighting market, " he declares.

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We believe LED capital investments will return to solid growth in late 2013-2014, as general lighting applications grow, and VECO should remain a leading supplier of LED process equipment.

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With the demand from the backlight market nearing saturation and the general lighting market yet to take off, growth in demand has been slow, resulting in a huge demand-supply gap that has put pressure on the average LED selling price.

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With its interests in power systems, transportation, medical lighting and finance, Siemens Group is Germany's answer to General Electric.

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We continue to see pricing pressure due to the weak demand in the China outdoor street lighting market, together with the overcapacity of backlight that has spilled over to the general lighting market.

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