Market demand slowdown in August LED light bulb prices fell

According to the TrendForce's green energy division LEDinside latest price report shows that in August the global LED lighting to replace the 40W retail price fell by about 1.5%, to US$10.9; instead of LED lighting global fold 60W declined by 2.3%, up to US$14.9. LEDinside analyst Yu Bin said that since July the United States after the bulb prices fell once again become the biggest region, mainly due to Cree, PHILPS and other manufacturers to use the package promotion strategy, at a low price to increase sales, market share only. In addition, the price of Chinese LED chips and packaging devices have continued to fall, the market demand growth momentum is insufficient, but the company's production capacity is still gradually released, so that the market competition is more intense. Weak market demand, market prices continued to decline in China devices in the upstream areas of the chip, HC semitek Suzhou production base MOCVD number continued to increase; dry according to optical Xiamen blue and green project has been put into operation; nationstar chip production capacity gradually released. Yu Bin pointed out that many manufacturers continue to release capacity so that the overall oversupply, chip and packaging device prices will not be avoided. 2835 0.2W product prices continued to decline in August, a decline of 1.36%; 0.5-1W between the decline in the number of products also reached 2.15%. Chinese and overseas line packaging factory including Lumileds, Seoul semiconductor, OSRAM, Hongli, Ruifeng, product prices were down regulated. In the United States led the global prices continue straight to replace the 40W part of the United States from July to 14.1% after a sharp decline in prices, August 3.7% decline. Manufacturers such as CREE, PHILPS and other products due to promotional activities, the price drop is too large. CREE 8.5W 470lm product installed 6 down to US$62.26, a drop of up to 20%; another 6W 450lm bulb bulb is loaded down to US$27, down more than 30% in. Other manufacturers, including PHILPS, EcoSmart and other promotional activities. Most parts of the United States also slow down prices, the United Kingdom and Germany fell by about 1-2%, China fell 1.3%, Taiwan fell by 3.1%, while Japan is in a decline in the contrarian rose by 0.9%. Replace 60W, America is still the largest decline in area, manufacturers continued to take low-cost promotion strategies to July prices fell 9.5%, and in August fell 3.9%. PHILPS 11W 830lm ball bubble lamp 4 drops to US$45.51, a decrease of 20%; 8.5W 800lm bulb lamp is installed for US$29.22, a decline of 2.57%. CREE 13.5W 800lm bulb 6 drops to US$62.26, a drop of 20%. On the other hand, the British bulb prices continued to decline in July prices of 1.1%, in August fell to expand to 3%. Most of the products showed a slight decline in prices, a small part of a larger decline. Such as Verbatim 10W 820lm bulb lamp, the price fell to $18.78, a decline of nearly 3. The rest of the region, such as China, Taiwan, Germany and South Korea were down, down about 1-3%, Japan is contrarian rose 0.2%. Source: Science News technews