LED solid-state lighting will enter a new expansion period

ISuppli believes that the 2009 holiday season has become a LED lighting for the general appearance of the event, will be in order to achieve double-digit sales growth in 2009 and two times to pave the way for the year in 2013.

A number of retailers around the world are actively promoting the use of indoor and outdoor decorative lighting LED lights. At the same time, used to replace the traditional bulb screw socket LED lamp also began to appear on the shelves of these businesses.

LED industry is about to enter a new expansion period, the next three years will be more than two digit growth rate of more than 15%. This growth will stem from more high brightness (HB) and high throughput LED into a new generation of lighting applications. High pass LED is also known as high power or ultra high brightness (UHB) LED.

2009 global LED revenue will grow by 10.9%, from $6 billion 700 million in 2009 rose to $7 billion 400 million. This is in stark contrast to the overall semiconductor market, which is expected in 2009 due to the global economic slowdown and shrinking 12.4%. By 2013, the global LED market will reach $14 billion 300 million, an increase of nearly doubled in 2009.

LED lighting

In addition to ordinary lighting, LED has become the preferred light source for a variety of existing lighting applications, but also to promote the rapid growth of the market is an important factor. These lighting applications include automotive, transportation and street lighting, as well as mobile phones, personal navigation equipment, digital photo frames and cameras and other products in the small LCD display and keyboard backlight. The market has also benefited from the emergence of new applications, such as televisions, laptops and personal computer monitors large size LCD backlight, as well as personal lighting.

LED targeting large LCD backlight

A key application of high brightness and high throughput LED growth market, will be flat-panel LCD TVs, laptops and notebook computers in the display of large size LCD backlight. LED quickly became a laptop LCD backlight, as well as TV LCD monitors are increasingly using LED backlight, so that this year the industry was surprised.

These emerging applications have led to a surge in demand for LED, manufacturing capacity is insufficient, and delayed the high brightness white LED average selling price decline trend. This is because, although the market is still in the early stages of development, but the LCD consumption of laptops and large TV LED is much greater than the consumption of mobile phones and camera monitors. Televisions and laptops also require LED to have higher quality in terms of luminous intensity and spectral consistency.

SONY, SHARP, Panasonic and Vizio and several other major TV OEM manufacturers, has been or is preparing to launch in the second half of 2009 using LED backlight LCD tv. Prior to this, Samsung's Luxia series ultra-thin LED TV in the United States, South Korea, China, Europe and India, a great success. In addition, all major PC vendors netbook and notebook products began to transition from the cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) to the LED backlight.

Solid state lighting

In addition, LED has now begun to penetrate the general lighting market for residential and office buildings. This is consistent with the predictions made by iSuppli in 2007. Although the retail price of LED bulbs is still an order of magnitude higher than that of conventional incandescent bulbs, customers are increasingly aware of the advantages of solid state LED lamps for energy saving and long life.

According to forecasts, high brightness and high flux LED solid state lighting market growth rate in 2013 will be higher than the overall LED market. By 2013, the standard brightness LED traditional market to create revenue will decline by about 2.5%, while the high brightness LED market will grow by about $5 billion 400 million to $6.7%. High throughput LED market will grow by nearly 53% to about $7 billion 800 million.

The picture shows the global market forecast for iSuppli standard, high brightness and high power through-hole mounting, mounting and display LED lamps.

Main features of today's LED Market

2009, there are several prominent trends in the solid-state lighting industry.

First, the blue and white high brightness LED price erosion rate slowed. In the first half of 2009, due to the demand for notebook computers and LCD TV backlight LED unit growth faster than expected, LED supply from time to time faced with insufficient capacity dilemma. In some cases, the spot price of white high brightness LED actually rose. ISuppli company believes that because the LED suppliers focus TV and notebook computer etc. the application of higher profit margins, the average sales price of the next two years, mobile phone and other small LCD display using the LED downward trend will slow down.

Second, the need to expand production to ease production constraints is rising. ISuppli estimates that in 2009 the total consumption of LED will reach about 68 billion 700 million, in 2013 will rise to 124 billion 400 million.

The current annual production capacity of the LED industry is about 7 billion 500 million, which means that many LED manufacturers capacity utilization is now close to one hundred percent. This also means that, despite the current capacity to meet short-term demand, but the expected growth in the LED market will lead to serious shortage of supply in 2010, unless the next four years, the annual production capacity of new production.

Third, the patent issues associated with LED manufacturing technology are still important, but the phenomenon of cross licensing increased to reduce the fear of infringement of intellectual property rights (IP) manufacturers fear. The main IP holders of many LED industry, for example, CREE and OSRAM have mutual Nichia signed a cross licensing agreement, and has been to Taiwan LED manufacturers to provide a fluorescent powder technology license. This forms a very complex global IP network.

Fourth, Taiwan continues to be an important player in the global LED industry. By virtue of