LED will be widely used in large size backlight before 2009

Cree vice president and general manager of Scott LED chip Schwab in the last week to visit Taiwan to seek cooperation and strengthen the company's current strategic partnership said more and LED packaging company, because of its low consumption and meet the requirements of environmental protection, LED will participate in 2009 through to the large-size backlight and general lighting applications. In addition to the Taiwan company, Cree is also looking to strengthen its partnership with LED manufacturers in Japan and South Korea. However, Schwab declined to say that he had been to Taiwan.

Taiwan manufacturer LED news that Schwab's visit was to complete the Cree company of the blue and green LED chip for EZBright backlight applications and to ensure a stable supply of red LED chip from Epistar company. In addition, the seller also and LED manufacturers in the negotiations, including Harvatek, high brightness products of independent development to improve the competitiveness in the market against Nichia in high brightness white LED. High brightness LED areas of potential growth, Nichia recently told Opto Tech, the number of very large orders. In addition, Epistar also received Nichia red LED orders. Scott Schwab said that because LED is still facing price and heat problems so LED will replace the cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) will still need a transition period. However, the price will certainly decline over time and the heat sink problem can be solved by choosing an efficient chip package. Schwab said that in 2006 the mobile phone will continue to be LED most widely used in other fields, including the backlight, notebook computer digital camera, MP3 player and personal digital assistant, LED currently used in these mobile devices accounted for a large part of the overall solution sales of Cree company, but he refused to disclose any details about the application and data geographic sales.

Cree offers only the blue and green light LED chip and is currently working to improve the brightness and efficiency of the LED chip, Cree company already has 30m LED chip design capability and expect 25-30mW LED brightness in the next 12 months will become the mainstream. For the recent merger of the LED industry in Taiwan, Schwab expressed optimism about this trend. 2005 is the Taiwan LED industry performance decline for a year, but in the field of application of LED in 2006 widened encouraged Taiwan to improve their production company, Schwab believes that when more or even 7 inches large size LCD backlight module using LED, Taiwan LED chip manufacturers this year are improving their productivity.