which will begin producing LED components

This miniature device uses an industrial standard 0603 package outline but with a package height of only 0.6mm! Its small, efficient and highly reliable design has a superb wide viewing angle of 160° with enhanced thermal dissipation capability via its copper base. It offers an excellent lifetime up to 20k hours due to its enhanced resin mixture for encapsulation and low thermal resistance of the housing.SpiceLEDs do not only spice up the lighting solutions for automotive interior lighting but being also the trend-setter for key-pad illumination of PDAs, compact back-lighting applications, consumer appliances, office equipment, audio and video equipment where less space is a premium requirement.

According to The Korea Times, the new 840,000-square-meter manufacturing facility, which will begin producing LED components and materials next year and LCD glass in 2012, will be critical in LG's plans to exploit the sharply increasing demand for next-generation display and lighting technologies, company officials said.The country's leading chemical producer, will invest 3 trillion won into the new Paju plant through 2018 to establish seven manufacturing lines for LCD glass substrates. LG Innotek, the LED-related subsidiary, will invest another 1 trillion won through 2012.The new plant will help offer one-stop manufacturing solution for next-generation technologies, including research and development, components and equipment, and LCD panels. The clear focus is on LED BLUs, which will be used in the large-size LCD televisions and monitors produced at LG Display's LCD cluster.

YAHAM Innotek will use the new facility to produce LED BLUs and lighting components, with the first products to be rolled out next May. The plant will eventually boost the company's production capabilities of LEDs by four times the current level, said the company, which plans to generate 1.5 trillion won in LED revenue and acquire 10 percent of the global market in LED packages by 2012.The grant will allow the company to produce a pilot line of products in an attempt to transform the LED-manufacturing industry with its cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing expertise, company and state officials said. Micron, which has been exploring the project over the past nine months, already employs 30 people full-time and others part-time on the venture.