Agenda of the 2008 LED conference in Santiago

From September 29, 2008 to October 1st, will be held once a year in the United States of California Santiago LED conference, there will be many industry heavyweights in this year, including PHILPS Lumileds (Philips Lumileds Lighting), CREE (CREE Inc), OSRAM (OSRAM Opto Semiconductors), TOYOTA (Toyoda Gosei), Arias (Nichia), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Audi (Audi). Of course, in many ways LED manufacturers contributed to the development of the industry, they will also attend the 2008 LED conference. This year's conference will look back over the past year, the industry's attention to growth and key R & D results, and will propose a roadmap for future development.

LED industry prospects, there will be an annual growth of 10-15%, in 2010 the output value is expected to reach $7 billion. Is widely used in a variety of end markets, including camera flash, projector, LCD backlight and automotive headlamp etc.. In the 2008 LED Conference on these issues by several speakers, from DisplaySearch John Jacobs will discuss how companies such as HP and apple in the notebook computer in a large number of LED backlight system; Audi's Stephan Berlitz will discuss the extended application of LED company bright headlights and how to enhance the brand effect.

LED continues to grow in the general lighting market, the government recently issued a ban on incandescent lamp is to increase the use of environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductor lighting applications. The Terry McGowan of the American Lighting Association will discuss the situation of residential lighting, and will point out in particular that industrial lighting, LED in this area than its performance in the field of general lighting advantage.

Sheila Kennedy and Violich Architecture company's keynote speech is to highlight the application of LED in the field of architecture, will also explain how to solve the problem of vertical unified management. These discussions will highlight the achievements of LED in general lighting, as well as the need to overcome the obstacles in the expansion of the market share of LED.

Source: China Semiconductor Lighting Network