AUO investment of NT $1 billion 500 million yuan to set up a new LED Taiwan factory Ronda, palm LED back light period

Recently, Taiwan's panel makers (2409) the layout of LED is becoming more active, the law said AUO will be announced LED will cause independent directors, AUO investment of NT $1 billion 500 million, the establishment of the LED manufacturing company, named lextar electronics. In order to grasp the stable supply, cost advantage and future technology development of TFT-LCD in the backlight. Taiwan panel factory, in order to Chi Chi (3009) layout of the earliest, the establishment of odd electronics to cross foot LED production, to build their own LED backlight ready.

AUO chairman Li Kunyao said that the current TV with LED backlight import cost and traditional models spread is still a considerable gap, but LED is the future main panel light source technology, AUO inputs LED, is in this application for long-term layout, and from upstream to downstream, epitaxial package, backlight module will be produced until. AUO investment LED industry, is the hope for the future in the use of LED backlight LCD TV needs to import a large number of before, LED will pull high self-sufficiency rate.

Source: LEDinside