By 1993, with the founding of Taiwan's first upstream epi-wafer company, United Epitaxy (later acquired by Epistar), up-, mid- and downstream LED manufacturing was complete, and today Taiwan's total output value for LEDs exceeds 20 % of the global figure, second only to Japan as a supplier.
1993 年前，國內第一家上游磊晶片廠國聯光電（後併入晶電）成立後，LED 上中下游完備，目前台灣 LED 產值已超過全球的 20％，為僅次於日本的第二大供應國。