June latest LED news

Cree quarterly report showed a sharp increase in chip demand last quarter and limited production

April 21, 2006, the last quarter of the last six to four weeks, the mobile phone with a surge in demand for LED, so that the LED chip and SiC substrate supplier Cree and some of the GaAs RF device suppliers unprepared. In the last quarter ended March 26th, Cree revenue of $107 million 700 thousand, net profit of $24 million (last year's quarterly earnings of 20 million 700 thousand). Although revenues reached a new high, Cree high brightness LED, Xlamp series and Schottky diode production is subject to production constraints. Although the short term will affect production, Cree will shift the production of chips from the Durham plant to Research Triangle Park plant to reduce production pressure.

PHILPS announces Lumileds revenue growth

PHILPS announced its first quarter revenue of 1 billion 345 million euros ($1 billion 660 million) in the lighting sector for the first time in 06 years. PHILPS's Lumileds first quarter revenue grew 25% over the same period last year, but the specific data did not give. PHILPS's acquisition of all the shares held by Agilent Lumileds absolute controlling stake has been announced in August to 05 years in the 12 months of July, Lumileds's sales of $324 million in the year to come in Lumileds. It can be inferred that Lumileds 05 quarter revenue is about $80 million, that is, in the first quarter of this year revenue of about $100 million.

Analysis of large size LCD Backlight Market Analysis Market

LCD TV up the latest traction of large size LCD backlight module growth data show that in 2005 the overall LCD LCD-TV backlight backlight module accounted for 39.4% of the market, in 2006 this figure is expected to reach 50%, which on the whole backlight market and related businesses for the tremendous impact. With the domestic LCD TV (LCD-TV) market penetration and expansion of large size LCD industry can be said to have entered a stage of development, from the beginning of the second half of 2005, Samsung Electronics, LG.Philips LCD and other South Korean companies, and Taiwan's AU Optronics (AU Optronics) and other manufacturers have to expand LCD TV panel production. Especially with the upcoming 2006 football World Cup in Germany, the consumer demand is expected to TV will heat up, LCD-TV will continue to expand the market share of flat-panel TVs, and then pull the backlight module market demand. According to the forecast, 2006 shipments of large backlight module is expected from 2005 206 million 600 thousand rise to 265 million, growth of 28.3% (taking into account the LCD-TV direct type backlight module costs accounted for the increase, the proportion of the 2006 panel backlight output increase will be higher than the volume growth rate of 2008), will further increase to 363 million, so 2004-2008 large backlight module shipments growth rate reached 27.1%. In 2005 a large backlight market sales increased from $4 billion 300 million in 2004 to $7 billion 500 million in LED sharp, the replacement rate has reached 3-5% level; in 2008 is expected to reach $14 billion, then the LED backlight part will account for about 1/3 of the market share.

"Taiwan Han Hutch" major market share by 2005, total shipments of large TFT-LCD panels in Taiwan area accounted for 44.1% of the world market and South Korea ranked first, with 43.9% market share ranked second in the world; but from the market sales, Taiwan area accounted for 39.7% of the share is nearly 6 percentage points behind South korea. This is mainly due to South Korea's LG. Philips LCD (LPL) and Samsung Electronics occupy a higher LCD-TV shipments (its relatively high unit price). Based on the LCD-TV panel in the field of competitive advantage, South Korea is expected to maintain its leading position in the backlight market in the next three years, Chinese backlight market share increased year by year, but the market share is still limited by the raw materials in 5 ~ 10%. In South Korea, the Japanese manufacturer of technology and production promotion, LED backlight will be at the end of 2006 at the beginning of the 2007 commercial application in LCD TV Sony, from the current 32 inch, 37 Inch, 40 inch to 46 inch. In addition, the size of the ultra large LCD screen, such as the size of 50 inches to 60 inches, Han and Sharp and other development plans will also be on the LED backlight module on the technical blueprint. According to SEM, LED backlight unit will gradually replace the cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL), the market size will grow to $2 billion 700 million by 2009

Toshiba launches the world's thinnest and lightest LED notebook panel

In April 13, 2006, Toshiba Matsushita display technology company announced the development of the world's thinnest and lightest notebook with 12.1 inch low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) thin film transistor liquid crystal (TFT LCD) panel. This section of 2.9 mm, 183 g panel using a new LED backlight system and ultra thin glass substrate, the thickness of the current market is only half of the product, the weight is only about 32%. Panel brightness 300cd/m2, 50% higher than the current LTPS products.

Japan Oki Data launch LED printer

In April 10, 2006, the Japanese Oki Data introduced the use of high brightness LED instead of the laser to issue a better beam to stimulate the print head on the photosensitive drum C3400N printer. The company said that although the speed is slow, but this printer can provide a higher color printing resolution. The company plans this summer in Office Depot, Office Max and other stores to implement this printer, each priced at $500.

The latest LED Lamina challenges traditional lighting

April 20, 2006, the United States, Westampton County, New Jersey solid state light source Lamina Ceramics in 2006 Frankfurt, Germany lighting construction exhibition launched its ultra high brightness LED light engine Atlas production line. This new line of products including warm white (warm white) and fluorescent (daylight) type two: warm white products to strengthen the red and orange spectral flux over 100 lumens, with 10 watt halogen bulb is comparable, but the power is small nearly half life is 3 to 4 halogen lamps