LED Market: 3 years by outdoor display and LCD LED backlight

On June 24th news, with LED (light emitting diode) outdoor display (LCD) and LCD backlight (backlight) the rapid growth of the market, market research firm Display Search estimates, to 2012 for the 2 categories of products LED share merger will reach 34.7% in global shipments of 1670, respectively, 24 billion and 34 billion will be used.

DisplaySearch report that last year LED global shipments of a total of 79 billion 800 million, of which the proportion for the above 2 kinds of display products, respectively for the outdoor dynamic display uses 11 billion LED, the market share of 15%; LCD backlight 8 billion, accounting for 11% of total shipments.

DisplaySearch is expected, the size of more than 1-70 inches of thin film electro crystal liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) backlight, the number of LED to be used in 2012, from 8 billion last year to a large increase of 34 billion.

In addition, the expected future 3 years in Japan Nichia Corp. (Nichia) will continue to use the blue and white LED LCD LED backlight market, mainly because of its patent position is strong, and good customer relationship.

But DisplaySearch expects, including South Korea's Samsung, STANLEY in America, Japan, Citizen HoldingsCo. ShowaDenkoKK (Seou, Ishida) South Korea Semiconductor (Seoul semiconductor) and Germany's SIEMENS lighting company OSRAM and many other companies are also sharpening target is extended to LCD TV backlight LED market share.

DisplaySearch estimates, this year for outdoor display LED revenue will reach $1 billion, is expected to grow to $1 billion 500 million in 2012. Last year's Beijing Olympic Games, the use of LED outdoor display, the use of such products to enhance international visibility, contributing to market growth in the next few years.

DisplaySearch vice president and director of the YoshioTamura team report pointed out that LED will bring new impetus to the growth of TFT LCD industry, mainly because of its low power consumption, environmentally friendly, dark color performance, improve the ability to increase, and let the LCD panel and can use more lightweight characteristics.

On the other hand, TFT LCD also allows the LED industry to bring new growth momentum, because of its quality and technical requirements to improve, so that the use of LED more widely".