Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) recently declared a technological breakthrough for LED light bulbs. This improvement will decrease the weight of LED light bulbs to less than 100g, a lot less than the weight of LED light bulbs which are usually 150-200g.

Industry sources indicated that ITRI will likely pass such technologies by cooperating with LED firms such as Delta, Lite-On and Lextar.

Industry sources noted that China and Taiwan are both going to set up LED indoor lighting standards in first-half of 2012 with tube lights as the priority. LED light bulbs will be second on the list for standardization. Similar to the standardization of street lights, in the future, China and Taiwan will mutually recognize the standards to help the commercialization of LED light bulbs. China's demand for LED indoor lighting will appear in second-quarter 2012, added industry sources.

According to ITRI, this technology will be announced around second-quarter 2012.