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Samsung Partners With Luminus Devices to Launch Spire Receives NREL
First LED-Based Data Front Projector - 9 Jan, 2010 Go Ahead for Phase II of
Samsung’s new LED data projector labor. This drives down the total cost of
High Efficiency
leverages PhlatLight PT-120 LEDs to slash ownership and reduces the administrative
total cost of ownership, deliver burden to manage stocks of replacement
Concentrator Solar Cell
unprecedented color quality and reliability. lamps and disposal of used lamps.
Contract - 13 Jan, 2010
Luminus Devices, Inc., developer and
manufacturer of high light output, “Big Chip” “Samsung’s new LED data projector is a
PhlatLight® LEDs, today announced that its great illustration of how Luminus works in NREL green-lights Spire Semiconductor for
PhlatLight LED PT-120 is the light source in close partnership with its customers to Phase II of development of triple junction
Samsung’s new XGA (1024 x 768 pixels) create a new multi-million unit market GaAs 42% efficiency “triathlon”
LED data projector. for PhlatLight LEDs and demonstrates concentrator cells. Spire Corporation a
that our unique large chip technology is a global solar company providing capital
It is the projection display industry’s first great fit for mainstream data projectors,” equipment and turnkey production lines to
LED-powered data projector. Today, said Keith T.S. Ward, CEO, Luminus manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and
PhlatLight LEDs are the solid-state light Devices. modules, announced that its wholly owned
source of choice across all projection subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor, LLC, has
technologies, including 3LCD, DLP and “In today’s challenging economic landscape, successfully completed Phase I of its High
LCOS. “Leveraging PhlatLight LEDs, the marketplace is asking for affordable, Efficiency Concentrator Solar Cell program
Samsung’s new front data projector long-lasting, lower total cost of ownership with the Department of Energy’s National
expands our line of LED projectors for projectors in the business and education Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and
business and education markets” markets. Luminus and Samsung are fulfilling has been notified the NREL will authorized
this demand while also creating new value Phase II of the program.
The new Samsung LED data projector for our customers with next-generation
marks a milestone in the industry by technology advancements such as amazing Under the 18-month, $3.7 million cost share
validating that LEDs will start replacing color depth and instant start and restart subcontract, Spire Semiconductor is
conventional arc lamps in mainstream front functionality.” developing technology to cost-effectively
projectors used in business, education and manufacture 42% efficient, 500 sun,
commercial applications. “Leveraging PhlatLight LEDs, Samsung’s concentrator solar cells for concentrator
new front data projector expands our line of photovoltaic (CPV) systems.
This market is forecasted by market LED projectors for business and education
research company Pacific Media markets,” said Jeong-Ho Nho, vice president Spire Semiconductor passed through the
Associates, Inc., to be in excess of 6 million of the visual display division, Samsung. NREL Stage Gate Review, a go/no go
units in 2010. LEDs are a compelling light decision point to validate the progression of
source for front projectors since their high “PhlatLight LEDs enable new features and the project and assure that progress meets
reliability eliminates the need for expensive innovation that customers recognize and contract objectives. These objectives
lamp replacement, which typically ranges value while delivering environmentally include estimates of key performance
from $250 to $400 including parts and friendly products.” parameters of competitive Levelized Cost of
Energy (LCOE); annual manufacturing
capacity potential; direct manufacturing
cost; and cell Mean Time Between Failure
Siklu Announces Industry’s First SiGe Based E-band
(MTBF). PV cell performances of greater
than 39% efficiency were achieved during
Transceiver for Wireless Backhaul - 13 Jan, 2010
Phase I.
Siklu today announced the availability of a state-of-the-art process technology, and a “We are very happy to be given the go
70 GHz SiGe low-cost transceiver for high- novel RF and system design to offer a full ahead with our program,” said Roger G.
speed applications that use the licensed 71 suite of high-speed radio links at a fraction Little, Chairman and CEO of Spire
to 76 GHz spectrum. Designed with a high of the price of any available radio today,” Corporation. “It validates our efforts toward
level of integration and based on SiGe stated Izik Kirshenbaum, Siklu’s Co-Founder developing a proprietary gallium arsenide
technology, Siklu’s transceiver is the first of and CEO. (GaAs) concentrator solar cell that exceeds
such kind in the industry. The transceiver is anything commercially available.”
the main building block in a series of “Given this integration advantage that
technology and concept breakthroughs that results in an truly innovative system design, Mr. Little concluded, “The PV industry will
will enable a revolution in cost and power mobile operators can capitalize on the continue to grow significantly this year and
for wireless backhaul. “Until now, 70 GHz massive bandwidth available in the well into the future. CPV systems offer many
products have been severely constrained by millimeter wave spectrum in the most cost- advantages. With Spire’s strong position in
the high cost of the radios, based on efficient way.” Siklu will announce the first the solar industry, the availability of our
Gallium Arsenide or Indium Phosphide application of this transceiver at Mobile custom GaAs concentrator will put us in a
modules. Siklu’s integrated transceiver uses World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in good position to help our customers meet
Silicon Germanium technology, involving a mid-February. this market demand.”
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