(iTers News) - Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) will start mass production of white light-emitting diode (LED) from October 2012 at its subsidiary Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation’s 200mm wafer facility, a production base for discrete products in northern Japan.

The energy efficiency and long life of white LED is winning wide-scale application in general purpose lighting, TV backlighting, etc. and significantly boosting market size: from 700 billion yen (US$8.75-billion) to a projected 1 trillion yen in fiscal 2013.

Toshiba used GaN-on-Silicon*2 technology to develop white LEDs, and has collaborated with Bridgelux Inc. a leading developer and promoter of LED lighting technologies and solutions, in white LED chip development since January 2012.

The combination of Bridgelux's crystal growth and LED chip structure and Toshiba's advanced silicon process and manufacturing technology has combined to successfully develop a prototype chip with a maximum optical output of 614mW.

The chip maker stakes out white LED as a next generation growth to drive up its discrete power chip business

 

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