Taiwan Economic Daily: LED winter is expected to end early

The financial impact of the tsunami, LED industry and other industries in the same situation, and not too much good news, but the application of the new LED are constantly being developed, as long as the downturn in the winter in the past, LED practitioners in the speed of recovery better than expected in other industries.

In the past more than 50% applications in the LED mobile phone and other consumer goods, is closely related with the mobile phone market ups and downs next year, the LED application will greatly increase the proportion of the liquid crystal display, first is the current hot small notebook computer, NB backlight, the notebook computer manufacturers have adopted LED as the backlight source, the permeability of next year at least 35%.

LED's biggest growth momentum in the future of LCD TV, Samsung is currently the most active development and promotion of this product, once the successful opening demand, the LED boom in the early winter has the opportunity to end.

But the LCD TV business, not every one can get the LED factory, China's Taiwan region is the upstream epitaxial crystal power plant is the most common development opportunities, the backlight of LCD TV and TV manufacturers have crystal, crystal electric future Taiwan area will be the most capable TV backlight source chip stable supply manufacturers.

Although the capacity utilization rate declines by crystal electric in the short term, but because of its production capacity has been prepared, and has more than 800 patents, account cash up to NT $7 billion 500 million, R & D can be used to do the layout of the products and patents, and only 20% of bank debt, debt to expand the elastic greatly. Once the market situation reversed from the bottom, crystal electric LED industry should be the most explosive company.

Source: Taiwan Economic Daily