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Bridgelux to sell Toshiba its GaN-On-silicon related assets
The LED specialist has agreed to provide Toshiba with its technology/chip licensing and manufacturing collaboration
Bridgelux and Toshiba have signed an agreement under which Bridgelux will sell to Toshiba its GaN-on-silicon technology and related assets.
The companies aim to strengthen and extend their strategic technology collaboration, through an expanded licensing and manufacturing relationship.
In January, 2012, Bridgelux and Toshiba entered into a Joint Development and Collaboration Agreement for the development of GaN-on-silicon LED technologies.
The success of that relationship was demonstrated by Toshiba’s announcements of the achievement of the performance of its 8” GaN-on-silicon LED wafers and mass production of white LEDs.
Both of these milestones were achieved using Bridgelux’s crystal growth and LED device processes as well as Toshiba’s advanced silicon processes and manufacturing technologies.
The enhanced strategic relationship could provide a new business opportunity through the expanded collaboration for next generation LED chips and packages, or platforms, based on the jointly developed GaN-on-silicon technology, as well as a manufacturing arrangement securing Bridgelux a source of supply for GaN-on-silicon- based LED chips.
“Our agreement with Toshiba marks a tremendous milestone in our long history of working closely together, allowing Bridgelux to capitalise on our strong core LED technology platform, providing us with significant new capital for growth, and reducing our capital requirements,” says Brad Bullington, Chief Executive Officer of Bridgelux.
“This agreement also allows us to focus on what we do best, and what we think the market needs most at this point in time: commercialising, productising and bringing to market LED-based solid state lighting technologies alongside a proven global scale semiconductor manufacturing partner. We are one step closer to becoming the world’s leading solid state lighting technology architecture company,” he explains.
“We are so excited with this deal that gaining GaN-on-
silicon technology and related assets will contribute to drastically strengthening our LED business, and bring us a high performance and competitive product line-up. We fully expect our new Livermore team to play a leading role within Toshiba in the development and rapid market penetration of GaN-on-Silicon LED chips,” says Makoto Hideshima, Executive Vice President of Semiconductor and Storage Products Company, Corporate Vice President of Toshiba.
“Entering a new phase of our relationship with Bridgelux, we will be able to accelerate the scaled manufacturing of 8” GaN-on-silicon LED wafers, which will position both companies for strong growth in our respective LED businesses. The GaN-on-silicon technology that we acquire will also bring us a breakthrough for Power Devices development and production.”
The GaN-on-silicon assets included in the sale, and the related Bridgelux employees, will remain on site at Bridgelux’s headquarters in Livermore after the transaction closes to assure continued technical and business collaboration between the companies.
NPD: LEDs to grab quarter of global lighting market
LEDs are expected to sell 16 million units in 2012 to a forecasted 33 million in 2013, and will nearly triple by 2016
Demand for LED lighting is growing rapidly thanks to significant expansion in manufacturing capacity, falling prices, environmental concerns, and government incentives.
According to the “NPD DisplaySearch LED Lighting Market and Forecast Report”, this new opportunity for LED lighting applications will double the market, from 16 million units in 2012 to a forecasted 33 million in 2013, and will nearly triple by 2016.
As a result, the demand for all LED lighting products, including spot lights, LED luminaries, street lights, LED light bulbs and fluorescent tubes, will reach 90 million in 2016, increasing the global penetration for LED lighting applications to 26 percent in 2016, up from only 5 percent in 2012.
This increase is due in large part to continued growth in commercial applications, government incentive programs, and consumer demand for energy-saving technology. The highest growth will be in LED-based tubes that replace fluorescent (FL) tubes used in commercial applications, LED-based street lights, and
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