LED chip maker Epistar does not worry about new competitors

As more manufacturers plan to enter the LED chip market, LED chip maker Epistar will face more competition but the company said it did not worry about competition.

LED decorative manufacturer Neo-Neon Holdings has expanded its business to the LED upstream market and the company has purchased several organometallic chemical vapor deposition equipment. AU Optronics also plans to set up a LED chip company.

Taiwan Chinese PVI (PVI) recently said they did not rule out into the upstream of LED epitaxial market, Chi Mei lighting, Chi Mei optoelectronics a wholly owned subsidiary of the company has from upstream to downstream epitaxy packaging market includes supply chain.

Although the appearance of these new competitors, Epistar company is not worried about the competition, the technology process upstream LED chip manufacturer is quite complex, yield and patent issues are to the new arrivals a major problem to be overcome. As for the LCD panel manufacturers, although the company decided to enter the market but because the investment in this area is not high, if the output does not reach a certain scale of production costs is difficult to come down.

On the whole, there are a total of 400 metal organic chemical vapor deposition equipment for LED production, of which 150 are owned by Epistar and are also expanding the number of.

In August 2005 announced a merger with United Epitaxy and become the world's largest al-ga-in-p (AlGaInP) LED suppliers, Epistar company also announced the acquisition of United MicroELectronics's two LED Epitech Technology and Highlink subsidiary company in September last year.

Source: China Lighting Trade Network