LED industry trends and comments for the third quarter of 2014 (two)

2, August LED light bulb prices fell slightly, the overall trend is relatively stable

The latest LED light bulb retail price survey, the global replacement of 40W LED bulb retail price in 2014 showed a slight decline of about 1.8%, reaching $14.2 in August. 60W replace the LED bulb global average price fell 0.9% to $19.1.

Comments: in August the global LED bulb price fell slightly, the overall trend is relatively stable, the majority of product prices remain stable or slightly lower.

Instead of 40W commodity parts, the United Kingdom in August prices fell 4.7%, the original commodity prices showed a steady downward trend, some commodity prices are more obvious. In addition, the German region in August prices fell 2.6%, the majority of the original commodity prices are stable or slightly downward trend, the exchange rate changes also contributed to the average price fell. The average price of goods in Japan to replace the 40W showed a slight rise of about 0.3%, the original part of the commodity price fluctuations, new items high prices. Commodity prices in the United States in August showed a slight rise of 0.9%. Most of the original product prices remained stable, some commodity prices up. Instead of 60W commodity parts, Japan in August prices fell sharply 8.5%, reaching $16.8. The original part of the commodity price reduction is more obvious. In addition, exchange rate fluctuations also led to the average price fell. While the United States regional prices rose sharply in 5.5%, the original commodity prices showed a trend of fluctuations, part of the price of goods increased significantly. China and Taiwan in August prices were 0.7% and slightly higher, the original price of goods in the two regions remained stable, mainly due to changes in exchange rates caused by price increases in the 0.1%.

3, the rapid growth of the LED market size of the three applications lead the development of the industry

With the advancement of urbanization and the promotion of efficient environmental lighting, LED industry has been developed rapidly in recent years. Global LED applications in the field of general lighting and automotive lighting market is the fastest growing market, to promote the rapid growth of the LED market in the future an important driving factor. In addition, LED display application market is still showing a greater growth potential, one of the most stable growth point for LED applications.

Comments: in the field of general lighting, forecast 2014 global LED lighting output value will reach $17 billion 800 million, the overall number of shipments of LED lighting products reached 1 billion 320 million.

The market forecast to 2016 the global LED lighting products market size will reach 70 billion -800 billion euros, in the overall lighting market accounted for ratio reached 45%-50%.

LED lighting products for the current gross profit of 3-5 times the ordinary LED products. However, this huge market cake, but by foreign companies or foreign companies with background. In addition to general lighting and automotive lighting, the display is one of the main applications of LED. LED display with high brightness, wide angle, visual distance, flexible and other advantages of rich color, can meet the needs of different application scenarios, especially in large size display has obvious advantages in application. Since 1990s, China's LED display industry has maintained a rapid development trend since the beginning of the year, creating the initial prosperity of the LED industry. Currently, the global LED display market is still in the rising stage. According to China optical photonics industry association earlier forecast, in 2013 China's LED display market size of up to 24 billion 94 million yuan.