LED boom is still dim, wisdom, car market as a way out

Taiwan media news originally LED factory expect LED industry this year to get rid of the plight of many years, but stabilized, LED factory overcapacity problems unsolved, and international companies, continued price competition, whether it is LED or LED backlight lighting, this year is still facing serious challenges, according to market research institutions and Nichia estimates, this year the whole market is only LED last year a slight growth of 5%, in order to enhance profitability, Everlight, East Bay, Lunda and Wang Qi have turned to the car, smart lighting and wisdom functional clothing such as the blue ocean market, hoping to get rid of the supply chain, the competition pressure.

According to the LEDinside report, the 2016 car LED market estimated value of up to $1 billion 210 million to $2 billion 290 million, is expected to 2020, the compound annual growth rate of 8%; the car lighting lights, fog lights, including the direction and position of far and near light lamp, this year the overall car lighting LED number 2 billion 790 million, is expected by 2020 will be there are 3 billion 670 million stars, and the distance and position lamp lights LED package a number of compound annual growth is more than 15%, the number of headlight module LED package is the growth rate of the highest compound annual growth rate of 23%.

Optimistic about the automotive lighting market, lextar electronics since 2013 to start the layout of the car with the product development, the products have been applied to the headlamps, daytime running lights, lamps, taillights, interior lights and so on, the lamp and continue into the new customers, the company also announced in the days before the car with a LED package the first products of domestic competitors through appropriate reliability test of special decka, has made AEC Q101 third party certification, to become Asia except Japan, first obtain third party certification headlights with LED.

Ronda said, with the LED products customers include Taiwan and Mainland China each big car company car factory; in addition to the LED car company, also the layout of UV, IR and other special applications, UV applications include printing machine and IR curing applications, including POS or security monitors; in addition, the BenQ Group actively layout in the medical field, the future Lunda will also be combined with the strength of the group, only LED medical applications; as new products began shipping, Lunda estimates, related products this year is expected to more than 100 million yuan of revenue contribution.

At present, billion light vehicle products accounted for only one billion light revenue figures, the main customers in addition to European and American car company, has recently won again in mainland China and Korean car factory orders, due to the needs of customers, products used in the production of car billion light planning Causeway new factory, the second quarter of this year the beginning of the end of the installed production, although the old billion light factory in customer service market and the car factory has passed the certification, but the new car factory factory still need to re Audit, because the car factory need six months at least, so a lot of help revenue point estimate falls in 2017, with the addition of new production and new customers, automotive products also is expected to become the next wave of growth billion light kinetic energy.

Compared to the Lunda and billion light positive from the vehicle lighting market, the East Bay and Wang Qi were locked wisdom and wisdom lighting function clothing; according to PHILPS forecast, 2020 smart lighting market size at 90 billion euros, equivalent to NT $3 trillion yuan, other research institutions also estimates that in 2015 about 3 billion dollars worth of smart lighting 2019, smart lighting output will see $8 billion 700 million average compound annual growth rate of 41%; as for the wisdom of functional clothing, according to the Global Industry Analysts at the end of 2014 released wearable electronics report shows that in 2015 the global smart textiles market size of $1 billion 632 million (NT $54 billion), compared with 2014 growth of 14.2%, the market is mainly concentrated in Europe and the United States, accounted for 7; while the Juniper market research firm Research research report also pointed out that in 2020, the world will have the connection between 30 billion wireless products, when Smart textiles market size of up to $2 billion 930 million (about NT $96 billion).

At present, the application of intelligent lighting to commercial / industrial applications and public lighting, and gradually extended to the smart home and intelligent human lighting (iLighting).

The wise man is due to lighting, lighting system based on human physiological and psychological needs or reducinglow and automatic modulation of the most comfortable color temperature and the brightness of the lighting, lighting for wisdom is divided into wisdom light module, smart lighting control system, the wisdom of health, safety, energy and wisdom wisdom wisdom lighting services six. At present, the East Bay lock wise by the lighting, and Lei jointly apply for 130 million yuan project funding, is responsible for the development of intelligent lighting system in Lei, East Bay is responsible for module development, combining the resources of both sides, is expected at the end of this year have started production of products.

Wang Qi and spinning Institute jointly established the most dynamic photoelectric Hongxing, lock the wisdom of function clothing, developed LED yarn, Wang Qi said, LED yarn production equipment is Hongxing, by long yuan to develop automation, by way of SMD on Hongqi LED lamp after spinning test institute can be washed up to 30 times less damage, stable quality and large production, the products have been used in smart function clothing, necklace, dog clothes, and officially send samples of the world's top 3 sports brand factory, some products have begun to small shipments to distributors, is expected in the second half of the year was on the ship.

With the gradual layout of the new product fermentation, East Bay and macro Qi on this year's performance is cautiously optimistic that this year's performance will be better than last year.

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