Chinese LED market makes foreign lighting giant coveted

International Lighting giant China capital expansion

International Lighting giant is stepping up in China capital expansion and the new factory, in order to compete for the future huge automotive LED lighting market foundation.

Days ago, PHILPS announced officially joined China semiconductor lighting engineering research and Industry Alliance, said at the same time, will further increase in China investment, expand R & D and production capacity. Japan Nichia corporation executive vice president and chief operating officer Tazaki To also said the day before, ready to enter the Chinese automotive LED lighting market, and announced that it would open a new factory in the near future.

Reportedly, China semiconductor lighting engineering research and Industry Alliance, represents the highest level of the domestic semiconductor lighting industry, technology progress and industrialization to promote the goal of semiconductor lighting. PHILPS's entry into China's semiconductor lighting industry alliance's first non domestic brands.

PHILPS semiconductor lighting industry in the world, has been in a leading position. Through continuous investment and research and development, including the chip manufacturing, packaging, lighting and other aspects of the complete industrial chain, and gradually complete the layout of the core intellectual property rights based on LED.

Tazaki To said, LED will be the focus of future development of automotive lighting. By 2020, China will become a real LED market.

One of the LED global top ten Seoul Semiconductor Corporation also said that the company's automotive LED market growth, mainly from China.

Sales doubled with LED future car for 10 years

LED light-emitting diode, is a solid state semiconductor devices, which can be directly converted into electricity to light. LED light source lighting has the advantages of small size, low power consumption, long service life, non-toxic environmental protection and other advantages.

Lighting in recent years with the rapid development of LED technology, and has been used widely in city landscape lighting, road lighting and Home Furnishing lighting, LED lighting industry output expands rapidly, become a national focus on the development of the field of economic revitalization.

China "ten city lights", solid-state lighting plan of the United States and Europe, the LED lighting industry into the national strategic planning. At the same time, in support of governments and promote OSRAM, PHILPS, and Seoul semiconductor Nichia LED international giants of the world, will usher in a climax of the popularity of LED lighting.

The latest research report authorities said the next 10 years, with annual sales of LED vehicles will be two times now. At present, LED has been widely used in automotive interior lighting, LED in the gradual transition to the car headlights, taillights and other products, showing the development trend from the inside out, from the back to the front.

In recent years as part of the vehicle lighting technology improvement and cost reduction, LED application has increased. The Honda accord, Teana, crown, Reiz, Cadillac series, Buick Royaum models have adopted the LED lighting technology.

LED core technology for foreign control

LED core technology for foreign control, the United States, Japan and Europe enterprises not only occupy most of the market share, but also have LED industry chain upstream region of the 80%~90% of the original invention patent.

Shanghai Academy of technology of semiconductor lighting products research shows that, in recent years, the U.S. General Electric, Holland PHILPS, OSRAM of Germany as the representative of the three lighting giant multinational companies have to cooperate with the upstream semiconductor company, new semiconductor lighting enterprises, and to seize the commanding heights of patent in our country, to build patent surrounded ring. At present, local enterprises accounted for the entire industry patent proportion is less than 5%, from overseas semiconductor lighting patent giants ", is Chinese semiconductor lighting industry in Shanghai and the formation of encirclement.

LED industry chain of our country is not balanced, China has nearly 2000 LED packaging factory, in the upstream LED chip development significantly behind the international LED giants, these key technologies will be the main tool to master the foreign enterprises to enter the market China LED. In other words, the domestic automotive LED chip and packaging core technology firmly in the hands of the international LED giants.

International LED giants face competition, Chinese LED companies have felt the pressure. As an independent brand automobile accessory LED production enterprise R & D personnel said, China's LED enterprises generally lack of technical strength is not strong, like the international lighting giant PHILPS LED, OSRAM as the technical research and development ability, to have reached the international level in technology and brand, there is a long way to go. Experts suggest that the LED has a broad prospect and high technical requirements of products, domestic production, learning, research should be combined to conduct technical research.