Huang Jingzhou in China: the impact of economic demand does not affect the pace of LED alternative CCFL

Recently, in the photoelectric backlight module business group general manager Huang Jingzhou said that the financial tsunami caused the global economic uncertainty warming, for the next 6 months the market demand has not clear, but the LED panel is not affected in any way, estimated in 2009 the market penetration of up to 30-40%.

At present, in addition to a small number of customers in the photoelectric CCFL still use the old model for back light source, in 2009 the majority of new models almost all use LED panel. Huang Jingzhou said that due to the global economic situation continues to deteriorate, the fourth quarter of this year, in addition to the notebook computer, LCD TV and display backlight module demand will decline, the overall shipments will decline compared to the third quarter of 20%. As for next year's demand is quite uncertain, he said, demand will decline, but the problem is not to estimate the consumer demand in the center of gravity? Will the trend toward low-cost products? The only thing that can be confirmed is that LED replaces CCFL will accelerate. In the light of the current orders have been received in 2009, almost no new models of CCFL products, all LED, CCFL is only used in the original old models, when the customer product replacement, CCFL will go out of the market.

Huang Jingzhou said that in the fourth quarter of the LED backlight module shipments, small and medium size single month about 10-20 million, while the size is 20-30 million. In addition, the company has also made the Japanese brand LCD TV backlight module orders, are light and electricity saving models, will be available in the first quarter of next year, with a view to make up for the next year the demand for light gap.

Source: LEDinside