LED shows promising future drivers IC manufacturers painstaking

Signs, including outdoor display, is an important LED application market. Many LED driven IC vendors focus on the development of this field.

The latest research IMSResearch data show that in 2008 the global LED market reached $770 million, signs, outdoor display, IC market and the traffic lights in the application fields of LED driving accounted for about 1/7, to $110 million. Although affected by the financial crisis, but the medium-term development of the market is expected to be healthy.

Compared to other technologies, such as LCD, plasma screen, LED screen can display the color image of high quality in the larger screen. Many large outdoor displays, such as sporting events, concerts, outdoor advertising, are using LED. This kind of large screen to use a lot of LED and driver IC.

Although there is still LED backlight driver IC application market the main signs, the market has become a great growth potential, strong market growth. The world's leading LED driver IC vendors include Macroblock, Toshiba and TexasInstruments.