On the LED chip-supply side there's also Seoul Semiconductor, and there are LED semiconductor tool makers, like Germany's Aixtron and Emcore Corp.
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, the semiconductor packager led by billionaire Jason Chang, lost 0.5%.
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Fundamental advances in LED semiconductor technology, optics, and lighting system design now enable LED lights to break century old cost and performance barriers that have prevented consumers from realizing the savings businesses and municipalities already enjoy.
Nakamura created the LED out of gallium-nitride, which became the semiconductor for making white LED lights today.
The LED light is a semiconductor chip that requires another chip, called an LED driver, to supply stable power to LEDs, improve electrical efficiency and regulate performance.
One can envision these new players in the industry will assume leadership in specific roles within the value chain: Intel-like semiconductor companies building the LED chips, and equivalents of a PC motherboard manufacturer like ASUS packaging the chips into devices that will be used in a variety of end-use lighting applications.
With this arrangement, Samsung and Nanosys will work together to create a new generation of cost effective, higher-efficiency products in the fields of solar, LED, memory, semiconductor, and display.
The semiconductor industry is in an oversupply, largely led by DRAM.
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Weakness in the global economy has led to lower consumer spending and slower growth in the semiconductor market.
The LED stands for "light-emitting diode, " a semiconductor chip, found in VCRs and radios, that glows when electrified.
On Friday August 19, Sehat Sutardja, CEO and President of Marvell Semiconductor, gave a talk where he described how he got into electronics by learning to fix radios in Indonesia and how that eventually led to his coming to school in the US where he founded a major semiconductor company.
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