Solar energy, LED driver gratifying, Taiwan area photoelectric industry steadily rising

Taiwan photoelectric industry scale in 2006 after the record breaking output value in 2007, and wrote 32% high growth performance. According to the Taiwan Optoelectronics Technology Industry Association (PIDA) statistics, 2007 Taiwan photoelectric output value of about $63 billion 300 million, equivalent to two trillion dollars, than last year growth of 32%; in the next few years is still expected to remain above 17% growth rate is expected to be a breakthrough in 2011 when $100 billion, a record 3 yuan NT trillion scale another milepost.

According to PIDA, with the flat panel display (FPD) market continued to grow, the solar photoelectric rise, high brightness white LED applications expand, promotion and application of technology of photoelectric diversified factors, in 2007 the global photovoltaic market value of about $378 billion, up 14%. Taiwan photoelectric output accounted for about 17% of the global market; including LED packaging, TFT LCD materials and components, TFT LCD panel, scanner, digital camera (OEM), information CD-ROM, optical disc and optical lens and other optoelectronic products in the world share for the top three.

PIDA industry and Technology Group Manager Lin Yingyi said: "the photoelectric industry in Taiwan after 04-06 years of slow growth, benefiting from the first half of 2007 FPD growth driven, last year the overall photoelectric market has become the 30% forecast this year; Taiwan photoelectric output value is expected to reach 2 trillion and 400 billion dollars, the growth rate is more than 15%. In addition, the overall growth of the market in Taiwan is still concentrated in a specific product, the top ten photovoltaic products with high output value accounted for more than the market growth of 90%.

On the application side, LED, solar cells, monitors, etc. are the hot industry in the field of optoelectronics. Among them, the flat panel display is still the highest proportion (76%) in the field of Taiwan optoelectronic industry. PIDA pointed out that in 2007 the Taiwan TFT LCD panel manufacturing and module packaging (excluding key equipment and components) output value of 1 trillion yuan, accounting for the global TFT panel and module package of 42%, for the first time in one fell swoop Korea's more than 39%. Therefore, regardless of the volume or value, Taiwan has officially become the world's first.

Solar photovoltaic industry, solar battery factory in Taiwan area the overall output value of about NT $40 billion 300 million, is already the world's fourth largest solar power producer, PIDA estimates that in 2008 the Taiwan solar output will grow to 1148MW, the output value is expected to exceed 88 billion dollars, the whole photovoltaic industry (including wafer, cell and module) output value will exceed 100 billion.

It is worth noting that the photovoltaic solar industry in Taiwan has five consecutive years of high growth, the solar cell module (470%), silicon wafer type solar cell (145%) and solar silicon wafer (129%), Taiwan ranked top three high growth rate of photovoltaic products growth rate in more than three digits, the future is still there is considerable potential for growth.

High brightness white LED continues to expand, in the application of the efficiency gradually increased, Lin Yingyi said, the ultimate goal is to replace the traditional light source applications in general lighting, especially in the global lighting industry scale of $70 billion, accounting for about $40 billion to the general lighting. Therefore, the 2008 LED application focus will spread LED lamps in 2007; from the LED street lamp application market started to gradually penetrate into the general lighting and LED headlights, and reached 10% in the LED backlight notebook computer application in permeability.

However, the current LED in terms of efficiency, cost and reliability is still a challenge, and energy and environmental protection should be coordinated with the policy, in order to accelerate the realization of LED lighting. PIDA is estimated to be around 2015, LED luminous efficiency of more than 150lm/w, the cost reduction of 15-20%, LED in the application of general lighting in order to popularize.

Source: Electronic Engineering album