ISuppli: China LED drive market will grow rapidly in the next five years

In the promotion of government stimulus policies, with the use of more and more, Chinese LED driver market is expected to continue to grow in 2009, and before 2013 with a CAGR of 4.4% expansion, showed that the iSuppli company survey.

In the global economy and the electronics industry downturn, China's LED drive IC market will grow by only 1% in 2009, from $115 million 300 thousand in 2008 rose to $116 million 500 thousand. However, the growth rate will accelerate to 9.6% in 2010, the scale will reach $127 million 700 thousand. China's LED market is expected to reach $139 million in 2013.

Figure 1 shows iSuppli's forecast for the LED drive IC market in china.

The Chinese government to take measures to stimulate domestic demand and encourage companies to invest in the LED industry, is driving the country's LED drive sales growth.

China pushes LED technology in the Chinese market, mobile phones and portable consumer electronics products is the main application of LED drives, accounting for 67% of the overall market in 2009, equivalent to $78 million. However, with the application of LED in traffic lights and other areas of general lighting applications, the dominant position in the application field will continue to weaken in the next five years. The Chinese government has launched dozens of projects to promote LED technology, including the LED urban lighting program. According to the Ministry of science and technology China, in the first phase of the program will be before 2009 in the more than and 20 city to install 1 million LED lamps for city lighting, including lighting lamps and tunnels, subway, parks and other public places gas station. The Department predicts that the project will save the equivalent of 220 million kwh of energy.

Domestic LED driver manufacturers

At present, foreign controlled LED driver IC market Chinese, especially TI, National Semiconductor Corporation and other U.S. companies. These suppliers are facing different markets, each market has its own special requirements, including mobile phones, portable consumer electronics, automotive, logo / large display, traffic lights and general lighting. Rich technology Taiwan LED manufacturers are more active. Rich technology has strong strength in the mobile phone and the consumer electronics market.

Before 2008, only a few local semiconductor manufacturers in China focused on the LED drive market. However, since last year, as China has taken steps to develop domestic supplies to meet the needs of LED city lighting and other projects, more and more domestic enterprises began to enter the LED drive market.

Enter the LED market enterprises including integrated device manufacturers (IDM), such as Shanghai belling Microelectronics Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and Hangzhou Silan microelectronics Limited by Share Ltd.

However, most of the new entrants to the LED market are non factory companies. From the beginning of 2008, there are more than and 40 fabless IC design companies in the development of LED driver IC, iSuppli company believes that almost all focus on power management IC market manufacturers will be in the next two years to launch their products IC LED drive.

ISuppli predicts that Chinese companies will make considerable progress in the market. They strive to achieve rapid growth in the next five years, especially in the mobile phone and consumer portable devices backlight.