Demand driven LED product prices or growth of 5% to 10%

May 14th news, according to foreign media reports, a large amount of information from LED related products manufacturers, due to strong market demand, in the near future LED chip and epitaxial wafer (epitaxy wafers) the price will rise, and this is likely to promote the LED backlight product price increase of 5% to 10%. (Note: epitaxial wafer growth and chip manufacturing is an important part of the LED industry chain)

Some LED chip manufacturers said that if the company received an emergency order, LED chip prices could rise as high as 10%. Taiwan LED chip suppliers new century photoelectric company (Genesis Photonics) has improved its green LED epitaxial wafer price; Taiwan Guangjia photoelectric company (Huga Optotech) also plans to move its epitaxial wafer price increase of 5% to 10%.

It is reported that, due to the LED backlight LCD TV market is growing rapidly, some suppliers are expected in 2010 LED products will occupy the entire LCD TV market share of 20% to 25%. However, not all people are so optimistic, there are some market observers believe that in 2010 LED products will occupy 15% of the entire LCD TV market share. They also warned that chip manufacturers in the third quarter of this year to increase production capacity, may lead to excessive supply of LED products.

In this regard, LED chip manufacturers, said the excessive supply of LED products will curb the price of the product is too fast, and help to solve the shortage of sapphire substrate (sapphire substrate). LED chip maker also said that because the manufacturer is committed to increasing the production of high-end LED products, to meet customer needs for technology upgrades to the LED backlight LCD TV, the average price of primary and secondary LED products are also likely to fall.