Japanese TV factory is seeking Taiwan LED supply

With LED TV will share towards 50% in the next year, the Japanese TV manufacturers now have to buy LED suppliers in Taiwan, and in the first half of this year began testing products. It is reported that SONY will be the first open to Taiwan LED purchasing, as Lite on technology and EPISTAR long-term development of the Japanese market, they are expected to enter the SONY product supply chain.

Another LED chip manufacturer, the new century photoelectric have also begun to Japanese customers shipping TV backlight products, but Everlight and other manufacturers but also for increasing the opportunities in the market competition, the good news is increasing Japanese manufacturers orders are still LED.

LED TV this year because of the surge in demand, resulting in the first half of the LED chip shortage. However, thanks to the support of Taiwan suppliers, Korean TV manufacturers have not been affected. Although the three quarter of the stock is too high to lead to lower demand, but the Japanese manufacturers began to buy foreign interest in LED, SONY is one of the most active one.

SHARP and Samsung is currently the two largest supplier of SONY's main LCD panel, and also participate in SONY's CMO panel supply. However, the supply of LED backlight module and the panel factory basically no contact, because SONY has been committed to the design of the LED backlight module, its style and partner level requirements are high.

LED manufacturers said that Japanese manufacturers in Taiwan has spent nearly half a year to test the LED backlight products, and Taiwan manufacturers for their first cooperation is very careful. Once the Taiwan manufacturers to join the supply chain of the Japanese backlight market, they will compete with Japanese manufacturers will be more intense.