General lighting market return to the rational LED industry decide on what path to follow

April 12, 2005, the national semiconductor lighting engineering research and development and industrial alliance by 2005 China (Xiamen) semiconductor lighting exhibition debut. In the same year in November 17th, the Ministry of information industry, semiconductor lighting technology standards working group was formally established. With the formal establishment of industry alliances and standard working group and the appearance of LED industry began to come under the general lighting (ordinary daily lighting) of the altar, the development of the semiconductor lighting industry in China will be more standardized, rational and pragmatic. Whether it is from the technical level or market level, we are not necessary for instant success. With a good attitude to seriously study and practice, objective and impartial evaluation, open communication, rational prediction, release, responsibly solid and steady progress, the semiconductor lighting market in the future will be fully demonstrated the importance of their role." Chen Hesheng, deputy general manager of Jiangsu steady run photoelectric Co., Ltd., said in an interview with the China Electronics News reporter.

Market driven industry

CCID Consulting survey report shows that in 2005 China's LED production has reached 26 billion 210 million, the market size is exceeded 10 billion yuan mark reached $11 billion 490 million. Driven by the emerging application market, in recent years, the rapid increase in the size of the LED market, but also to promote the rapid development of the industry.

General lighting market is the largest market for LED light source, LED light source is the target market, but we should also be aware that the LED lighting products to truly enter thousands of households, but also to achieve a major breakthrough in technology and cost. Ye Likang, general manager of Xiamen Hualian Optoelectronics Division in an interview with the China Electronics News reporter, said: LED into the field of general lighting needs a longer time. In the meantime, as the photoelectric enterprises only grasp the strategic development of the implementation, according to the resources and advantages of its own, unite all forces that can be united to customer orientation, market positioning and the starting point of the innovation and development of outstanding characteristics, can become bigger and stronger."

According to the survey data relevant institutions show that the current domestic LED market is about 5 billion to 6 billion yuan and the annual growth rate of 20%, but the domestic corporate market share of less than 1/3, large international companies in China and Taiwan are still dominant in the mainland high brightness LED market. Therefore, China's LED enterprises only continue to expand the scale, improve the level of application, in order to get better development in the increasingly fierce market competition.

LED packaging should attach importance to the development of process equipment

According to China optical photonics industry association LED branch statistics, as of the first half of 2005 the number of LED packaging enterprises in China has more than 1000. CCID Consulting analyst Wang Ying believes that a large number of enterprises, small scale, low level of duplication of investment, as well as non-standard and chaotic pattern of the industry constitutes the basic characteristics of China's LED packaging industry.

At present, an indisputable fact is that the mainland LED packaging industry equipment imports, the size of the enterprise is not large enough, insufficient investment in packaging process research, the overall level of technology is not high. This situation seriously restricts the development of the industry, packaging enterprises in the low-end market competition. The general manager of Foshan nationstar Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd. Wang Hao in Chinese? Accept electronic newspaper reporters said that at present, LED packaging industry opportunities and challenges, the opportunities outweigh the challenges, if the domestic colleagues can seize the good opportunities for development, adhere to independent innovation, then can realize breakthrough in LED packaging industry. In the aspect of independent innovation, we must intensify the research and development of the packaging equipment and the industrialization, we must carry out the research on the packaging technology." Wang Hao said.

LED packaging key equipment, including chip placement machine, wire bonding machine, glue machine, phosphor coating machine, plastic sealing machine, testing machine, taping machine, dicing machine, etc.. At present, the domestic situation is that plastic packaging machine has been successfully realized localization, excellent performance, can meet the industry requirements. Developed by some domestic units through the system integration method of testing machine, dicing machine, glue machine, also achieved good results, after a trial stage of improvement, is expected in 2006 can be put into industrial use. Chip placement machine, gold wire bonding machine is being developed, there is a certain gap between the practical, the need to further invest in research. The above key equipment import price is higher, a production line is roughly $500 thousand, and the new foreign equipment such as eutectic welding machine price is higher, a single price of more than 200 thousand u.s.. For many domestic LED packaging enterprises that have just started, the expensive import equipment severely limits the expansion of production scale. No scale, of course, there is no scale efficiency. At the same time, due to the lack of attention to the equipment, affecting the improvement of the packaging process. The technological process determines the selection of equipment, and in turn, the advanced nature of the equipment has a reverse effect on the process technology.

Wang Hao said: "the overall level of China's electronic equipment manufacturing industry lags behind the west, which seriously affects the competitiveness of China's electronics industry, LED industry is a very typical example. In order to improve the competitiveness of the industry, it is necessary to strengthen the independent innovation of equipment manufacturing industry."