Toshiba officially announced 8 inch silicon substrate LED production in October 2012

Japanese semiconductor maker Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) today announced the formal adoption of the company's cooperation with the United States BridgELux production technology of silicon substrate LED chip production line adopts the semiconductor factory in northern Japan plus Toshiba Corporation, the company's previous 8 inch fab, scheduled for mass production in October 2012.

White LED high efficiency and energy saving, long life has been widely used in life such as lighting TV backlight lighting etc.. White light LED market is gradually expanding, the market size is expected in 2013 from 2011 yen ($875 million) in to grow to 1 yen. Japan Toshiba Co is through the GaN-on-Silicon technology to the development of white LED, and LED lighting solutions company Bridgelux cooperation, white LED chip in January 2012 has been a new type of cooperation together. Combination of semiconductor silicon chip manufacturing and production technology of Toshiba Bridgelux crystal and LED chip structure, build a successful white LED chip 614mW output power. Toshiba Co will take this achievement as a basis for mass production of white LED lamps, and the products as the main development field of the next generation. In addition to enhancing the power of the white LED, the company will also focus on other parts of the service.

LEDinside at present that the 8 inch plant yield, although still not and sapphire substrate for LED epitaxial plant compared but have to be able to mass production, Bridgelux and Toshiba both in technology the speed of progress is also good.

Future in the initial production, including for LED backlight products, lighting products will be launched. In the long term, the impact of sapphire substrate LED, remains to be seen, but in terms of LED backlight, 8 inches factory production capacity in the future will be considerable.