Taiwan LED industry orders plummeted to be restored market order

The Lunar New Year is the collapse of small and medium-sized enterprises peak tide, so many LED manufacturers recently began to strictly control credit object and adjust the inventory level. Industry research firm LEDinside expects that after the first quarter of next year will be part of the poor quality of the manufacturers were eliminated, the next market order is expected to reply, then orders will begin to gradually return.

According to LEDinside statistics, in November 2008 in Taiwan listed LED vendor revenue total of NT $4 billion 59 million and NT $5 billion 700 million compared to October fell sharply compared with the same period last year, is also a significant decline (MoM-28.8%, YoY-36.6%). Which LED chip factory in November total revenue of NT $1 billion 559 million, down 31.4% from the previous month, LED packaging manufacturers in November revenue of about NT $2 billion 501 million, down from last month's $27.1%.

The overall value of the output of LED manufacturers in Taiwan in April this year, 6 billion 100 million yuan in the face of the new Taiwan dollar reversed, has dropped by up to 35%. Looking forward to the next few months, December inventory of factors, in January next year because of the Lunar New Year and reduce the number of days to work.

Observed in November, the overall Taiwan chip plant revenue 1 billion 559 million yuan NT (MoM-31.4%, YoY-41.2%), revenue decline is greater than the level of previous years.

Leading manufacturers of crystal electricity, for example, in November the revenue of NT $648 million, the monthly growth rate of -28.2%. The new century photoelectric November revenue of NT $100 million (MoM-28.6%), monthly revenue continued high record of innovation also marked off. This year, the upstream manufacturers LED substantial expansion of production capacity, when the boom reversed idle capacity increase, part of the upstream manufacturers capacity utilization has been below 50% levels, and manufacturers have begun to face a severe test of losses.