LED chipmaker Arima Optoelectronics will invest US$30 million maximum to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary for LED epitaxy manufacturing in Wujiang of China's Jiangsu Province, with equipment installation scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010 and production at year's end, according to the Taiwan-based company.
Since the new subsidiary will use an existing facility of the Arima Group as production facility, the company only needs to install the necessary equipment such as clean rooms and MOCVD machines, the company said.
Arima Optoelectronics will install 10 MOCVD sets by the end of 2010, 10 more by mid-2011, and up to 150 sets in the next five years, the company indicated.
In related news, fellow LED chipmaker Tyntek has entered the solar energy sector with its polycrystalline silicon subsidiary in Hangzhou, in China's Zhejiang Province in trial production stage and expected to officially begin manufacturing at year's end.
