LED but the expansion of market scale expansion has slowed down

According to the report tech consultancy In-Stat released the latest in 2003, the global optoelectronics semiconductor market revenue is expected at around $9 billion, but after five years with the average annual rate of 20% growth, and reached $22 billion 300 million in 2008. To this end, the industry are actively joining the LED in this big market, but it is precisely because the newcomers continue to join, LED market in the gradual expansion of the same time, competitive pressures also led to the expansion of the scale of slowing down. Relevant aspects of the forecast, LED will be the fastest growing market in the field of optoelectronics, it will grow from $2 billion 500 million in 2003 to $8 billion 900 million in 2008, an annual increase of 23%. Computers and related applications as the main area of the optoelectronic semiconductor market, its growth rate is expected to reach 21%. In this area, the semiconductor shipments will continue to grow, but the price pressure makes the expansion of the scale of this area slowed down.

Because the LED market attracted huge business opportunities and huge market prospects, this year has been the LED market moves frequently, because in 2005 China's LED industry optimistic about the market demand of about 13000000000 yuan, the current worldwide have stirred up a LED industry investment boom. But even so, the spot market still shows that the more mature LED market development, the market has been only moderate growth.

It is reported that due to the LED manufacturers in the lamp, backlight, lighting and other three applications on the market is still in the stage of development, certification, not of this year's contribution, until next year will have a relatively large number of applications, therefore, the second half of the LED growth has not shown a trend of rapid growth.

By competition and market growth accelerated to influence, the LED market in the third quarter from Japan also reported the news, small size LCD panel for white LED prices continued to decline, the report pointed out that the current white LED per unit price has dropped to 2.4 yuan, which has to be 30% lower than the same period last year, but also by South Korea Taiwan, manufacturers have joined the Japanese manufacturers also obviously feel the pressure on prices.

But from the DisplayBank news, China is planning to build a new factory in LED near Shanghai, expected annual output will reach 1 billion, become the world's largest LED production base, which is bound to the United States, Japan, Korea and other countries of the LED production has brought a heavy blow.

After the slowdown in the growth rate of the LED industry, the industry believes that the industry has been facing the fate of restructuring. Although the high brightness LED future annual output value is still high growth trend, but the growth of the products will be different, such as manufacturers only and not with the whole, the output value of different application fields of succeeding each other to make adjustments, it is easy to be eliminated in the fierce competition of fate.