Vigorously promote the government, South Korea's three giants led the development of LED industry

The South Korean government has spared no effort in promoting the development of the LED industry, plans to invest 150 billion won by LED in 2012. The industry is more enthusiastic, is expected in the next 3 years, the total investment amount of the Korean LED industry will reach more than 4 trillion won (nearly $3 billion 500 million), the annual creation of 5000 new jobs. Not only a substantial growth in production scale, back-end equipment and materials industry, has also become the main focus of investment. At present, the Korean LED industry to Samsung, LG and Seoul semiconductor three giants as the representative, and actively layout, to create their own LED industry chain and core competitiveness.

Samsung LED LED to create a complete industrial chain of stride forward singing militant songs.

Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics) and Samsung motor (Samsung Electro-Mechanics) joint venture of Samsung LED (Samsung LED), thanks to Samsung LED TV hot and uses a lot of group LED, 2009 became one of South Korea's LED factory revenue in the first, not only leading the Samsung Group (Samsung Group) in the LED business, more LED in South Korea the industry plays a leading position.

Samsung to build its LED industry chain

Samsung Group in the LED industry from sapphire crystal rod to LED packaging supply chain, the Samsung LED is responsible for LED epitaxy, chip and packaging. Samsung Group actively layout sapphire and other upstream materials, Samsung restructuring LED backlight module career, and with strategic partner Hansol Lighting, DAS LCD to establish a closer partnership to ensure that the LED source. In order to realize LED TV growth target in 2010, in addition to the sapphire material layout in LED upstream, while the development of the side light type LED TV related components of vertical integration, including LED packaging, TV brightness enhancement film, light guide plate, and to grasp the LED equipment technology, Samsung LED and South Korea cooperation in the development of LED equipment factory chip equipment.

Forge ahead, Seoul semiconductor technology and market innovation is not unusual

Seoul semiconductor after a few years of efforts to become world-renowned LED companies. Seoul semiconductor announced the company's 2009 LED revenue of $301 million. The latest statistics show that in the global white LED market, Seoul semiconductor has ranked third.

At present, most of the LED manufacturers mainly with their subsidiaries or Affiliated Companies to attack some of the dominant or monopolistic market. Seoul semiconductor is not unusual, the company not only to avoid the dependence on large customer orders, but also broke through the old concept of excessive attention to a particular market. Seoul semiconductor through the cultivation of customer and product portfolio diversification, for the company's steady growth has laid a solid foundation, and in the technological innovation and patent layout to do a good job.

Seoul semiconductor 2005-2009 revenue

From 2003 to the end of 2008, Seoul semiconductor in the United States for 5 years to apply for only 4 patents, ranking the world's top eighty-sixth. But Seoul semiconductor actively invest in R & D budget accounted for 10% of total revenue, from 2009 began to apply for a patent, currently in the United States patent pending number up to 60 a number of subsidiary Seoul OptoDevice also has a number of 50, enough to make Seoul become the world LED semiconductor factory, with the number of patents in the top 5 enterprise. Seoul semiconductor has the largest patent LED technology is related to packaging technology, recently extended to the lighting and TV backlight technology. Not long ago, the introduction of the industry shocked the unique patented technology to drive the AC-LED series of products, its luminous efficiency of 150lm/W.

LG unwilling to integrate resources to build LED industry

The leading cause of LG in LED group is LG Innotek, since the LED Division since 2000 in South Korea Kwangju factory mass production of LED, has been from the beginning of the main supply of mobile phone with LED, have covered the NB backlight, LED lighting, LED LED electronic Kanban, TV backlight applications. LG Innotek LED division in the third quarter of 2009 officially produced LCD TV with LED backlight, in addition to the supply to LG Display (LGD), but also to Vizio, SKYWORTH and other LCD manufacturers supply. In this context, the company in the second quarter of 2010 LED division revenue reached more than 285 billion 100 million won (about $250 million), a substantial increase of 83.8% compared to the quarter.

LG Innotek although the start of the evening compared to Samsung, but as the panel industry, LG group attaches more importance to the back-end industry consolidation, the future who is still unknown leading. The recent LG expansion also moves frequently, LG Innotek is located in the new production line LED Gyeonggi Do South Korea Paju has begun operation, but also positive from the global LED packaging market, and set up a new factory in Huizhou, Yantai China, plus Fuzhou plant, to form a triangular layout.

LG group LED supply chain list

LGD combined with canyuan, East Bay, reashine investment of $150 million (two) the establishment of the Jiangsu gem Yang company, the main blue green epitaxial and chip, the consumer market active layout China the LCD TV and the world's largest production base. LG's production of semiconductor wafer Siltron, start LED sapphire substrate manufacturing plan, before the end of 2010 will enter mass production stage, the sapphire substrate material costs accounted for about LED 10%, recently in the LED factory production capacity expansion situation, there have been a shortage of. If Siltron can successfully enter the mass production, LG group for the overall development of the cause of LED will be great news. (