Due to the needs of IR LED, OSRAM in Germany to recruit

The European giant OSRAM (OSRAM) spokesman of foreign that can be expected in the near future, the infrared component of LED demand will increase, including infrared LED application with iris identification is applied to mobile devices for the market is hot, so in Germany Regensburg factory, is expected to hire about 1000 new employees.

Recent Osram focus on automotive lighting, has reached 50% of the company's total revenue, Osram pointed out that they also continue to be optimistic about the wisdom of the mobile phone market demand LED related components of the potential.

Osram said, to 2020 so far, the company will continue to release position. Optical semiconductor plant will add about 50% of manpower, mainly responsible for manufacturing and research and development, in order to balance the need for auxiliary driving system LED components and infrared.

Samsung (Samsung) produced by the Galaxy Note 7 after several explosions, one of the focus of the market is also looking at the supply of infrared iris identification device Osram. The report notes that Osram also supports the same technology to Samsung will be released in March, in April to sell the new machine Galaxy S8.

Several Osram competitors also have new news. Nichia (Nichia) recently won several lawsuit; formerly PHILPS (Philips)'s Lumileds in December 2016 was sold to Appollo stock management (Apollo Global Management).

Osram's first quarter earnings report released on February 8th showed a high demand for LED components, the infrared part of the revenue is also pulled up the entire quarter revenue. The company also plans to invest 10 million euros ($10 million 640 thousand) in the production of the new LED component of the new plant in the west of the forest.

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