Nichia LED industry: 2016 5 trends

Nichia fourth degrees to Taiwan and media dinner, outlook 2016, Nichia the minister Akutagawa Katsuyuki LED notice of the whole industry is still grim, not only slight growth, even in specific areas are likely to face a shrinking industry.

In the face of China firms take the price war, the backlight market bleak, deep application of LED industry for many years in Japan LED chip manufacturers are still optimistic about emerging markets in the field of LED and high threshold technology, such as automotive LED lighting, direct installation (DirectMountableChip, DMC), chip chip (Flipchip), UVLED (LD) and blue laser applications.

In the vigorous development of smart lighting demand situation, Nichia that core smart lighting is energy saving and carbon reduction, improve energy efficiency and energy efficiency. The company will also be committed to meet customer needs, while the development of standard specifications of the light source. At present, Nichia will focus on the production of LED light source, no smart lighting manufacturers, platform solutions cooperation plan.

Technical input part, the amount of funds invested in 2015 is about 30 billion -400 billion yen, and Nichia said in 2016 focused on research and development in UVLED, laser diode technology, the required resources is bound to go beyond 2015.

UV LED help estimate 3 years can break through the limitations of UVC LED Technology

UVLED in 2016 will be a substantial growth, and Nichia so far has invested a lot of resources, currently in the UVLED application is the most popular application of air cleaner. The company's main development of UVALED technology, but estimates UVCLED may be able to break through the technical barriers in 3 years to successfully become UVLED for air purification technology applications.

Plant lighting wickers lined the bullish trend

The minister, Akutagawa Katsuyuki, believes that UVLED is an unexpected development for plant lighting, but has a bullish future. In particular, there are many idle factories in Japan have land and equipment, the development of the metropolis, just to meet the modern lifestyle. He also suggested that the plant UVLED lighting technology for the Middle East will have very good development. Lack of water in the Middle East, poor weather conditions, if the plant lighting underground, the local will be a good development.

Active layout of the laser lighting market

Nichia as early as 20 years ago into the blue laser technology research and development, Nichia products of deep confidence, said its products are in compliance with relevant international standards. At present, the proportion of the total number of laser lighting applications is still only one percent of the overall vehicle lighting, but the future will undoubtedly rise rapidly. The automobile market for quality and safety requirements gradually increase, Nichia in technology and quality improvement under the foot, is bound to be able to catch the car lighting market.

OLED product stability and production not overcome will not affect the existing market LED

Second the history department also said Mr. Ban, Nichia will pay close attention to the development of OLED technology, with the market demand gradually to high-end development, is also a good opportunity for the arias. But at present, OLED is unlikely to replace LED, product stability and mass production will be the biggest OLED two topics, and improve the efficiency of LED quality, will not be completely replaced.

Nichia also said that the future will continue to seek reliable agents, follow the Nichia and FutureLighting cooperation development examples of emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa etc..

By 2016 Nichia margin of about 20%, about the same as last year. Nichia in 2015 revenue 295 billion yen (about NT $85 billion contract), 2016 growth of 11%, if reached will increase to 330 billion yen. According to industry estimates in 2016, Nichia LED industry only 5% growth, but the backlight market is likely to decline even shrunk by 30%.

Defend patents and intellectual property rights

The Nichia a series of action, filed lawsuits in Chinese billion and its authorized distributors of photons, and filed a lawsuit in the United States on the Nichia LCD TV manufacturers. The purpose is to hope that we can use the patent LED does not infringe the patent of others, fully demonstrate the determination to protect patents.

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