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Re:Short History of LED Lighting by contingencies on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:08PM (#24497941)
What's interesting to me is that LEDs were apparently a Russo-Japanese invention yet the industry is now completely dominated by China. LED lightshows of an evening are a very late naughties China thing, every town has one these days, hell almost every building has one. Makes for interesting skylines, but no doubt terrible for ambient light pollution, insect life, etc.
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Re:Short History of LED Lighting by mattgrice on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:44PM (#24498337)
China dominates most electronic industries, few of which were invented there. Interesting that you say LEDs are a Russo-Japanese invention because all colors of LED were first commercialized in the US. The high-brightness blue LED was discovered in the US but commercialized by a Japanese company.
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Re:Short History of LED Lighting by sephamorr on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:55PM (#24499513)
When Shuji Nakamura developed the high-brightness blue LED, he was working at Nichia, in Japan. He's now at UCSB.
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