Independent and embedded LED micro investment demand will grow exponentially next year

Independent type micro projector on commercial and household equipment, portable embedded on use of personal consumption, the demand has been steady growth in. A conservative estimate, this year the global application of Himax LCOS (LCOS) monolithic chip technology of micro investment investment demand, should be in one million, 3/4 of which is the application of the embedded portable devices, the other 1/4 is independent of the application of micro projector, I believe that next year both have increased exponentially.

At present micro projector 3 development trends, namely, brightness enhancement, resolution enhancement, and the enhancement of color performance. Its light source mainly uses white light LED, RGB led and laser three kinds.

To improve brightness, LED providers need to enhance the luminous efficiency of LED. White LED color filter with a low cost to achieve the advantages of color screen, but it will inevitably affect the color performance, so LCOS micro projector terminal manufacturers have changed the use of RGB LED light source. Although the resolution is determined by the panel, but if the brightness is not up to a certain standard, the panel resolution is too high, it is difficult to have the corresponding display effect.

There are some emerging micro projector using laser light, but only Microvision alone developed 2 dimensional scanning type MEMS micro projector at the beginning of 2010 in mass production.

Laser source has advantages of good collimation because without manual focus, but will therefore cause the laser spot phenomenon and not affect the quality, can not be solved, but still need to fuss. In addition, due to the current green laser source into the production time soon, and only Corelle (Corning) can be mass-produced, expensive, so with a laser light source to achieve the popularity of micro projector, probably at least 2 years.

Most of the LCOS and DLP current (digital light processing) micro projection technology using LED as the light source, the LED production of high ability of mass production, more and more manufacturers have continued to decline in the cost of. Among them, LCOS micro projection technology can be used with white LED color filter, can effectively reduce the cost of micro projector, and enhance the penetration rate.

Lijing photoelectric company (Himax Display) Chinese district director of the Yellow River Yun said: "in collaboration with Himax nearly 50 micro optical engine module factory or project companies, most of the white LED or RGB LED as light source, which is only two or three in trying to design laser source. Himax focus on the development of LCOS chip design and manufacture, will not interfere with the customer for the selection of light source. "

Current Himax customers, using the Himax LCOS chip and RGB LED light source collocation micro optical engine module factory or program has nearly 30 home, one of the more famous in the Chinese mainland 3M, hirokage, hongtie, Regent, Crystal King, color and light etc. billion.

The Yellow River Yun pointed out: "laser scanning provided by Microvision micro cast technology is currently the number of micro investment scheme of competition does not exist and the threat of Himax, we are diligent in their micro investment in the field of technology, to jointly promote the vigorous development of micro investment products market. "

LED light source, low popularity, stability, long service life and acceptable efficiency, is the main concern for the majority of businesses choose the. Most customers have some concerns about the safety and high cost of the laser source, although the laser source can produce more vivid colors.

Himax has been LCOS (LCOS) development and manufacturing and supplier of chip design, Himax LCOS is currently the most widely used in the field of micro cast chip micro projection. At present, there are nearly 50 micro optical engine module factories or companies in the world in the application of the Himax LCOS chip development of their micro optical engine, which in mainland China more than 20. These micro optical engine module factory and the company, according to different products, different optical design, Himax LCOS embedded in their micro optical engine module.

Himax LCOS micro cast chip product series covers a variety of size and resolution, allowing customers to LED or RGB LED respectively collocation white light source, micro optical engine to develop different applications.

The Yellow River Yun pointed out: "the micro optical engine application of micro investment products have been in the pursuit of a small, bright, cheaper, lower power consumption, higher resolution, better power efficiency of RGB or LED has been in Himax customer for optical design considerations. There are no appropriate specifications and cheap RGB LED can be used, in itself is a big problem. "

Currently, Himax LCOS micro cast chip production capacity can reach four hundred thousand pieces a month. Application of Himax LCOS chip micro optical engine module factory capacity, on average, each probably has a month of twenty thousand or thirty thousand capacity.

Himax LCOS chip applied to white LED micro optical engine, the current monthly shipments of about nearly eighty thousand pieces. LED micro optical engine used in RGB Himax LCOS, will start shipping in the third quarter of this year, the first quarter of the forecast, the monthly shipments of up to twenty thousand.

"To design and manufacture of micro optical engine module factory or solutions company is currently concentrated in the northeast, Taiwan and the mainland Chinese using Himax LCOS chip, there are few in Israel and australia. "The Yellow River Yun said," since 2008, the main customers in the market have a large volume shipments are Nikon, 3M, Guangzhou king, hongtie, Regent, Crystal King, color, light and some billion.