2010 LED drive IC application market outlook

LED has the advantages of small volume, low power consumption, long life and other advantages, approaching 100% in the mobile phone and consumer electronic products, the permeability of small size LED backlight, LED backlight applications began to move toward the car, an external light source, in the development of large size LED backlight, and LED lamps with environmental protection and energy saving concept to replace the traditional lighting source. The scope of application of extending.

With the continuous extension of the scope of application of LED, terminal products are also diversified, on the basis of using LED light source terminal product attributes, LED can be used for communication with the market is divided, and the information, consumer electronics, industrial, lighting and other 5 categories for the car, the business cycle of individual application market position and penetration ratio based on the difference, corresponding to the LED driver IC market outlook is also completely different.

In 2010, with the global economic recession in 2009 gradually back to temperature, automotive, communication with the LED driver IC market is expected to stabilize, industrial, lighting market has a 2 digit growth space, as for information, consumer electronics market, will leap growth, forecast 2010 Global IC market will drive LED expanded to 3 billion 410 million, 2 billion 700 million compared with 2009, the growth rate of 26%.

With the increasing acceptance of the market, LED backlight also began to LCD TV, LCD monitors and other large scale product development applications. If the size of the market observation, driven by LED IC market ranked first in LCD TV, NB, LCD monitor application in sequence in the subsequent growth rate; in terms of observation, the LCD monitor with LED driver IC market growth rate ranks highest, followed by LCD TV and NB applications.

The required LED backlight, LED lighting, LED lights and related applications based on the constant current to reach the consistency of brightness (Constant Current) technology, the integration of brightness adjustment (Brightness Dimming) pulse width modulation function (Pulse Width Modulation; PWM) high current technology of high voltage technology integration technology, LED indoor lighting with high brightness LED the lights, will be an important development trend of LED driven IC future technology.