LED drive applications considerable market will be fine differentiation

Under the background of global energy shortage and environmental protection, the countries all over the world are developing green energy-saving lighting. As a revolutionary energy-saving lighting technology, LED lighting is developing rapidly. However, the requirements of LED driver power supply are also increasing. High efficiency, high power factor, safe isolation, accord with EMI standard, high current control accuracy, high reliability, small size, low cost and so on is becoming the key evaluation index of LED power supply.

According to the findings of research institutions, both in the NB and TV next year, MONITOR LED driver IC market size will grow by more than 14%, this data inspired LED driver IC factory, have good growth potential from next year, some IC manufacturers have released earnings, you can see the LED driver IC market growth speed plus, the energy-saving emission reduction issue continued to hit the LED driver IC market next year will enter the new era of the Warring States period. PWM integration technology, LED indoor lighting and ultra high brightness LED lights, will be the future development trend of LED driven IC technology.

Foreign control of China's market driven local enterprises need to strengthen independent production

On the occasion of the global economy and the decline of the electronics industry recession, China LED drive IC market grew by only 1% in 2009, but in 2010 the growth rate will accelerate to 9.6%, the scale will reach $127 million 700 thousand. China's LED market is expected to reach $139 million in 2013. Chinese government to take measures to stimulate domestic demand, and encourage enterprises to invest in the LED industry, is driving the growth of domestic LED drive sales.

At present, foreign control Chinese LED driver IC market, especially TI, National Semiconductor Corporation and other U.S. companies. These suppliers are facing different markets, each market has its own special requirements, including mobile phones, portable consumer electronics, automotive, logo / large display, traffic lights and general lighting. In addition, Taiwan LED manufacturers are more active.

Before 2008, only a few local semiconductor manufacturers in China focused on the LED drive market. However, since the beginning of 09, due to China's efforts to develop domestic supply to meet the needs of LED city lighting and other projects, more and more domestic enterprises began to enter the LED drive market. However, most of the new entrants to the LED drive market are non factory companies. From the beginning of 2008, there are more than and 40 fabless IC design company in the development of LED driver IC, but I believe that with the LED driver application market continues to expand, almost all focus on power management IC market manufacturers will be in the next two years to launch its own LED driver IC. At present, the foreign company's LED drive IC also has certain advantages in terms of pressure, local IC also need to redouble their efforts.

LED driven supplier market began to fine differentiation

As the industry are optimistic about the prospects for the LED drive market, new vendors continue to join. It is not difficult to find, whether it is NS, NXP, ST, A Morimi, these companies, or professional in the field of small and medium sized IC enterprises, almost power products line companies are pushing LEDdriver product line, ranging from low power to high power. Due to the application of LED in small and medium-sized panels (mobile phones and NB) gradually expanded to the large size of the panel, so the panel driver IC factory is also actively cut, including the United States, the spectacle, Xu yao. With the development and gradual maturity of LED driven products, industry segmentation is an inevitable trend.

With the continuous expansion of the supplier team, the LEDdriver makes a hundred flowers bloom, but it also brings fierce market competition. Especially in the cost sensitive consumer markets, such as mobile phones, laptops, such as backlight, LED driven price war has been repeatedly opened. Therefore, for those manufacturers concerned about the market, how to improve the cost of products is the key to winning. But at the same time, we also observed an exciting phenomenon, the market gradually showing a trend of differentiation.

With the expansion of the LED application, drive manufacturers in the attention of different LED applications, such as in many manufacturers are targeting when high power high current applications, some manufacturers also drive applications on small current, such as automobile tail light, decorative lighting, work lights, counter lighting market segments. This is a good trend, the more segments of the market concerned, that manufacturers in the mining and cultivate more new niche market, this is undoubtedly more than everyone in a field to fight a fight at outrance much stronger.

But for the development of general lighting market, you need to work together to foster the participation of manufacturers, manufacturers more relevant technology of LED lighting is one day earlier mature, the cost can be decreased rapidly, thus becoming the largest LED real application market.

Backlight market is still the focus of attention to the application of lighting manufacturers focus on R & D direction

Due to the wide range of applications, high technology maturity, backlight is still the largest LED application market, the greatest demand for drive. Small portable devices such as mobile phones, notebook LED backlight market has been growing rapidly. With the decline in the cost of LED on TV and other larger display will also gradually replace CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp), becoming the mainstream backlight mode. Therefore, the backlight market naturally driven by LEDdriver (drive) manufacturers attach great importance to.

LED lighting applications have been the hottest industry. But in addition to the more mature landscape lighting, traffic lights market, the general lighting market is often considered to be a future market. This is due to the development of LED for general lighting is short, the technology is not yet fully mature, was