2009 at the end of the backlight with LED prices fell flat with LED lighting stability

LEDinside latest price survey report pointed out that the 2009 Q4 for backlight application delivery smoothly and lighting application of heating, upstream LED chip supply is still tight, so the LED white price decline is not obvious, the overall decline in 1-3% backlight applications, while lighting high-power LED appears to calm.

Towards the mature notebook market, backlight application specifications are mainly 0.8t and 3014. Since the fourth quarter due to stable shipments, the price has not changed significantly, only a slight decline of about 1%, the unit price of between 0.07-0.1 U.S. dollars, and this year the overall decline of about about 20%.

On the other hand, high-power LED cold white products gradually to 100 lm/w for the mainstream. At this stage, large size backlight high brightness products shipped smoothly, coupled with lighting demand heating, making the supply of high-power LED products tight, so the price of LED did not change, still maintained at $0.6-2. LEDinside said that in 2009 the price of high-power LED fell as high as 40%, mostly concentrated in the first half.

Overall, Q4 is the traditional season, but hot and the notebook computer LED backlight TV shipments, takeoff plus lighting needs, the chip supply lead to tight, so the season effect and the price decline is not see.

2010 Q1LED market price outlook

LEDinside estimated 2010 Q1 in product demand stability and supply is still insufficient doubts, prices will tend to smooth, but in the backlight applications, due to continued production capacity, price variables are high.