Crystal electric red LED Europe and the United States billboard orders

EPISTAR high brightness red LED came news, crystal electric new product Aquarius and Phoenix LED received two LED outdoor billboard European and American manufacturers orders, also get the car maker's certification, the crystal electric ultra high brightness red LED (UHB) production capacity doubled, from 160 million the previous month. 80 million capacity expansion.

With the advent of the era of full color RGB, red LED is becoming more and more important, especially the main production of global LED manufacturers focus on blue LED, let the crystal electric has a strategic position in the field of good red LED, crystal electric current four yuan in the capacity of LED is the first in the world, including the general brightness of 1 billion 600 million stars, and high brightness 80 million, even the world's first manufacturers of Nichia have to purchase red crystal electric LED.

EPISTAR executive vice president Mingjun said weeks, EPISTAR has received the European and American manufacturers of outdoor billboards LED orders, the growth of the considerable period, but this is no doubt ITC infringement products, crystal growth motivated products this year, due to the application of UHB is wide, including outdoor display screen, and in the past the crystal power base is low, you can see more growth space.

In the past four yuan LED of crystal electric profit play an important role, but this year in tort litigation Lumileds, EPISTAR in UHB shipments a month down to only 30 million this year, let the crystal electric of more than 2 billion 100 million yuan profit primarily from blue contribution, but the introduction of new products in the crystal, crystal electric this year in the blue LED and red LED firepower, strive for further improvement of profit.

In addition, UHB can also be applied in the automotive market, the current crystal has been in the certification of them, Zhou Mingjun said, before the ITC judgment, crystal power in the UHB monthly production has reached 100 million of the capacity of this year's growth of 30% to 40% should be no problem.

This year the crystal growth kinetic energy electricity, in addition to four yuan LED, blue and green LED is also a market, the blue and green LED monthly production capacity of about 800 million, ranking the world's top three, in order to cooperate with the crystal electric expansion moves downstream of the first half of this year, the monthly production capacity will increase from 300 million to 400 million, amplitude the expansion of the close to 45%.

Zhou Mingjun analysis, about 15% LED growth this year, the application of hand-held products as the main growth force, is expected to grow by 40%, 7 to 10 inches of small and medium size backlight penetration will from 2007 45% to 2008 60%, NB display is one of the largest growth next year, the current penetration rate is only 3%, to 2008 will grow 10% to 15%, POWER LED will also strong growth.

Source: Taiwan Economic Daily