LED market demand growth is expected to promote product price growth of 5-10%

According to LED packaging manufacturers, sources said, due to strong market demand, the price of upstream LED chips and epitaxial film growth will be rapidly rising, so this may push LED backlight product prices increased by 5%-10%.

Some LED chip manufacturers said that if the company received an emergency order, then, LED chip prices may rise as high as 10%.

According to sources, the Taiwan LED chip manufacturers photoelectric (Genesis Photonics) the new century has improved its green LED epitaxial wafer price, and Guangjia photoelectric (Huga Optotech) plans to raise the price of 5%-10% epitaxial wafer.

Sources pointed out that the Taiwan LED chip maker Taigu photoelectric (Tekcore) and canyuan photoelectricity (FOREPI) have plans to increase the price of its products, and EPISTAR (Epistar) is considering the possibility of a substantial increase in the price, but has not yet made a decision.

LED backlight LCD TV market is growing rapidly, while some TV manufacturers are expected in 2010, LED LCD TV market share will account for the global LCD TV market share of 20-25%.

However, not all market observers are optimistic, some observers believe that in 2010, LED backlight products will occupy 15% of the market share of the entire lcd market. Observers predict that, following the third quarter of 2010, LED chip manufacturers began to increase production capacity, may lead to oversupply of LED products.

LED chip manufacturers said that the oversupply of LED products may curb excessive price increases, and help to solve the problem of sapphire substrate shortage.

LED chip maker also said that because the manufacturer is committed to increasing the production of high-end LED products, to meet customer demand for technology upgrades, LED backlight LCD TV so that the average sales price of primary and secondary LED products may also be decreased.