Chinese manufacturers offer more insight into the sapphire substrate and MOCVD market this week. Chinese MOCVD manufacturer TOPEC aims to challenge Veeco’s dominance in China’s MOCVD equipment market, while Guizhou Haotian Opto offers insights causing the market’s current sapphire substrate shortages. In addition, Chinese experts share their perspective on the recent global LED patent battles, and how Japanese manufacturers are taking the lead with core technology patents. LEDinside analysts have also come up with brand new reports this week that shed insights on the global LED lighting market trends for 2014. 

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1. Guizhou Haotian Opto: Market Sapphire Substrate Shortage to Continue
2. Chinese Expert: Japanese Manufacturers Take the Lead in Global LED Patent Battles   
3. Chinese MOCVD Equipment Manufacturers to Challenge Top Foreign Brands      
4. Industry Projects Flash LED Market to Enter M Shape Trend in 2014
5. LEDinside: LED Lighting Product Shipment Volume to Soar in 2014
6. LEDinside: LED for TV Backlight Applicagtions PRice Plunge Eases in 4Q13
7. Japanese LED Market Doubles in Size   

What’s Trending?

1. Guangdong LED Industry Still Under Oversupply Pressure   
2. Taiwanese Chip Manufacturers See Rise in 3Q Gross Profit   
3. Samsung to Switch Flash LED Package Specs to 2016   
4. It's Time for the LED industry to Tackle Compatibility
5. Non-Profit Watts of Love Aims to Send 10,000 LED Solar Lanterns to Devastated Philippines   

Industry News

1. PIDA’s Unveils Top 10 LED Lighting Manufacturers List   
2. Flip Chip and Vertical Chip Manufacturers Go Head to Head in the Flash LED Market   
3. TOPEC Views Veeco as Sole Competitor   
4. UBI Research: LG Versus Samsung OLED TVs   
5. Laster 2013 Revenue Hoped to Benefit from LED Automotive Market Growth   
6. China Electric Enters LED Lighting Field with Takeover of GIO Optoelectronics   
7. Revolution Lighting Technologies Acquires Tri-State LED   
8. Philips and Desso Partner Up to Develop Light Transmissive Carpets   
9. BOE Announces 5.5 Generation AMOLED Production Line   
10. Rubicon Technology Appoints Warren Stewart III as Senior VP of Sales and Marketing   
11. Soraa Expands GaN on GaN LED Manufacturing Operations in U.S.   
12. Philips Urges for Optimism on LED Lighting Energy Saving Potential at COP19   
13. Cree LED Lights Up Albuquerque Convention Center  
14. Harvatek Utilization Rate Drives Up Revenue in 3Q   
15. Edison Opto Earnings Up in 3Q13  

New Products

1. Seoul Semiconductor Introduces New Generation of High Power LEDs   
2. GE Showcases New Products Developed in Cooperation with Taiwanese Manufacturers   
3. GE Returns to Taiwan Market with LED Omni A19   
4. Philips Releases Next Generation Jump LED Luminaire
5. Osram Releases Lunis 2 Micro Pro Modules with Modern LED Technology   
6. Osram Opto Launches LED Component for Medical Lighting
7. Toshiba Launches Dual Polarity Input Photocoupler for Servo Motors and PLCs   
8. Dialog Semiconductor Introduces New SmarteXite Technology Platform for Intelligent LED Lighting   
9. Eaton’s New SkyRidge Fixtures Use WaveStream LED Technology to Illuminate Ambient Applications   
10. Intematix Introduces Remote Phosphor Product for 150W LED Retrofit Lamps   
11. SemiLEDs Introduces 10W Integrated RGBW LED   
12. Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Adds Array Spectrometer to Product Portfolio  
13. Tivoli Introduces Flexlum, a Patent-Pending Flexible LED System   
14. Power Integrations Adds High-Line Parts to LYTSwitch-4 LED-Driver IC Family