2009 LED application strong

2008 has passed, 2009 LED application trend crescendo. Driven by the Chinese mainland market for large-scale LED lighting and outdoor billboards applications, is expected to stimulate global LED output in 2009 grew by 15.7%, a record high of $8 billion 677 million. Taiwan LED output value will reach 2 billion 314 million U.S. dollars, the growth rate of the performance of the world is better than 18.24%.

LED lighting market, in addition to the international exhibition event fueled, governments procurement and large LED lighting demonstration project, and LED lighting specifications have been finalized, is expected in 2009 global LED street market penetration will exceed 1%, began to enter the rapid growth stage. Faced with the challenges of the Chinese mainland LED industry, group management and strategic alliances will be the key to the stable market position of Taiwan in 2009.

White light LED with high luminous efficiency and high brightness, is regarded as an important indicator of LED into the field of lighting, the application of the increasingly wide range. 2009 White LED by the Japanese manufacturer Nichia price reduction strategy, coupled with the overall market oversupply in 2008 LED, white LED products ASP forecast from $0.16 in 2008 to $0.14 in the year to $. Taiwan manufacturers to cut competition led to a decline in white LED 15~25%, however, the decline in ASP will help improve market demand, ease oversupply pressure. On the other hand, opened by the Beijing Olympics in 2008 LED new application continues to have a fever, and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and Guangzhou Asian Games and 2011 Shenzhen World University Games coming soon, large billboards, LED business application driven architectural landscape lighting, is also the focus of concern of the LED industry in 2009.