Before the high brightness LED market by large LCD and automotive use drive in 2011 will maintain an annual growth rate of 17.6%

U.S. consulting firm Strategies Unlimited in November 2007 26 ~ LED related discussions held on 30 "First International Conference on White LEDs and Solid State Lighting (White LEDs-07)" published on the high brightness LED market analysis report. The company said that the LED market in 2007 to 2011 will be an annual rate of 17.6%, the market size of only $4 billion 180 million in 2006 is expected to expand to $9 billion 400 million in 2011. Portable DVD player and vehicle navigation systems use 5 inch to 10 inch LCD panel backlight light source, the use of notebook computer 10 to 17 inch LCD panel backlight light source, light source of automobile headlamp using white LED will become the impetus of market expansion. 2008 ~ 2009, although the pace of market expansion is slow, but after this, the effect of the new impetus will tend to be significant. On the other hand, after the protagonist of the high brightness LED market - the status of mobile phones will decline year by year.

Report that the high brightness LED market will once again enter the growth state. This is because the size of the market has not expanded, there is a sign of stagnation. High brightness LED market, after the protagonist is a mobile phone, with the phone equipped with a color LCD panel, the backlight led to a white LED, camera flash also began to be equipped with white LED. More importantly, with the surge in the supply of mobile phones, high brightness LED market in 2001 to 2004 years to achieve an annual growth rate of up to 46%.

However, after 2004, with the mobile phone is more than 80%, the back light source instead of white LED and slow progress, Taiwan and South Korea manufacturers also launched a keyboard for the low price of LED, LED experienced a significant decline in prices. Therefore, in 2005 the scale of the high brightness LED market grew by only 6.2% over the previous year. 2006 growth was only 6.6%, the market size of LED for mobile phones was reduced by 6.4%.

However, the Strategies Unlimited agency said that the high brightness LED market in 2005 2006, although the overall low, but high brightness LED market mobile phone use outside of the situation is very good, it is the harbinger of a market will be expanded. The company said the mobile phone market outside the market in 2001 to 2006, the annual growth rate of 22%.

LED headlamps will also be applied to high beam lights

The Strategies Unlimited report also talked about the LED for automotive headlamps. TOYOTA May 2007 listed the "Lexus LS600h" is the world's first light vehicle equipped with LED. Strategies Unlimited said, LED headlight in the autumn of the same year became Germany's Audi (Audi) "R8 options", but also in the summer of 2008 GM (General Motors) "Deluxe Edition (Cadillac Escalade Platinum) Cadillac Escalade" equipped with. Lexus LS600h only in the low beam lights with a white LED, R8 and Cadillac and the low beam lights and high beam lights Escalade Platinum will use white LED. A white LED maker, Strategies Unlimited believes that Lexus LS600h R8, Nichia chemical industries for the United States Philips Lumileds Lighting Cadillac Escalade Platinum, Germany OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (OSRAM Opto Semiconductors).