Unity Opto Technology, a world leader in high bright visible LEDs, IR devices and various lighting modules based in Taiwan, has been designated as an exclusive LED backlight supplier for Nexus 7, the first tablet computer co-developed by Asus and Google. Nexus 7 also uses touch-screen technologies from Hydis, a panel manufacturer based in South Korea, and LED chips from Taiwan based Formosa EpitaxyIncorporation (Forepi).
 
As Nexus 7 scheduled to be launched in America this month, Unity has begun shipping LED backlights at least two to three months ago. Since April, Unity has shipped over three million LED backlights for Nexus 7, and its shipments for “non-Apple” tablet computers are expected to reach 10 million units in 2012.
 
Unity is a major LED backlight supplier to Asus. This year non-Apple tablet computers are expected to take 30~ 40% market share to drive Unity’s LED backlight shipments to 10 million units this year, to generate demand for about 300 million LED chips.
 
Benefited from simultaneous shipments of small-medium, and large-sized LED backlights, Unity’s revenues in June is estimated to exceed NT$ 700 million (US$ 23.33 million), with orders in July expected to total NT$ 800 million (US$ 26.67 million).