White LED market average annual growth rate of nearly 30% prospects

Opportunities and challenges:

White LED has many advantages, such as high luminous efficiency, low power consumption, long life, environmental protection and so on

Automotive and lighting market for LED white light application growth rate is very fast

White LED market diversification, a promising market prospects

Market data:

In 2005, the demand for white LED in the world is about 4 billion 500 million, which will increase to about 9 billion 800 million by 2008

2005 mobile phone market accounted for 68% of the market share of the mobile phone market in 2008 will drop to $40%

Automotive and lighting, in 2008 will be increased from 10% to 22%, and from 2% to 15%

2008 LCDTV and PC will be increased to 7% and LED by 6%

1998 successful development of white LED. White LED has many advantages, such as high luminous efficiency, low power consumption, long life, environmental protection and so on. White LED began to be widely used in various fields.

According to statistics, in 2005 the world's demand for white light LED is about 4 billion 500 million, by 2008 will grow to about 9 billion 800 million, more than doubled, with an average annual growth rate of nearly 30%, the market potential is huge. One of the most widely used products are mobile phones, in 2005 accounted for 68% of the market, because of the slow growth of the mobile phone market has become saturated, 2008 still occupies the dominant position, but the market share will drop to 40%. Growth is faster in the automotive and lighting, in 2008 will be increased from 10% to 22%, and from 2% to 15%. 2008 LCDTV and PC will be increased to 7% and LED by 6%.

Color mobile phone market

At present the biggest market for the application of white LED backlight color screen mobile phone and keys, according to the Times quoted iSuppli data electronic market research agency pointed out that worship color mobile phone replacement tide shipments rising which, in 2004 the global mobile phone shipments to 625 million scale, estimated the global color screen mobile phone mobile phone is over 67%, is expected to break through the 400 million color production branch 420 million, to support; each color screen mobile phone backlight source about a white LED 2-3, such as the average of 2.5 calculations, estimating demand in the mobile phone screen color backlight using white LED 2004 will achieve 1 billion 50 million. In a mobile phone, keys must use high brightness LED an average of about 8-12, because of cost considerations, the use of white LED proportion is still low, according to the Taiwan Research Institute IEK, 2003, Huang Lvguang white and blue LED three for mobile phone keypad backlight source market share were 163, blue and white in the future LED prices fell under the influence of the yellow green light LED market share will decline, will help increase the white LED market demand.

Camera and digital camera flash Market

With the mobile phone camera flash, for the application of the new white LED market, according to market research firm iSuppli data, estimated in 2004 accounted for 25% of the global mobile phone camera mobile phone, the market scale reached 156 million, according to the Taiwan IEK data, estimate the collocation of white LED flash photography mobile phone in 2003 accounted for 45%, 2004 will grow 65%, the white LED flash market is large and growing. At present, each camera phone needs about 3-4 white LED as a flash light source, a conservative estimate of the demand for white light LED in 2004 will be applied to the camera phone flash will have more than 300 million. As for the digital camera flash, most still xenon flash, but with the design of electricity demand and shorter, the future of digital camera manufacturers will increasingly use LED as the source of white light flash.

LCD panel Backlight Market

Liquid crystal display (LCD) is a non self luminous display, white light LED as the light source of LCD, has low power consumption, small volume, environmental advantages, and the EU is expected to ban the use of mercury containing CCFL began in 2006 (CCFL) of related products, which will become the main white LED backlight LED backlight in the future, but module cost is still high, and the luminous efficiency should be improved, therefore, in addition to the current application have been widely used in mobile phones, PDA, digital cameras, digital camcorders and other small size LCD panel backlight, backlight in the large size of the panel is still dominated by CCFL, LED and other technology to further develop and price fall, to solve the above problems should be possible to fully replace the bottleneck.

Automotive lighting market

Due to the car driving safety of light sources for automobiles, so countries for automotive exterior lighting light source especially have a standard to regulate, so unless the white LED luminous efficiency are enhanced greatly, the short term is almost impossible to use on the outside of the vehicle lighting field, at present still belongs to the niche market, but the lighting in the car if the car reading lamp, dome lights, decorative lights, because there is no standard limit, is expected to become the main market application.

General lighting market

The main source of general lighting market for fluorescent lamps, incandescent lamps, halogen lamps and other products, market share were 42%, 27%, 17%, compared with the white LED light source, although has the advantages of energy saving, small volume and so on, but according to the Taiwan ITRI IEK data, in 2003 the global general lighting market size of $12 billion 300 million, and global general lighting with white LED market size of $21 million 500 thousand, showing the current market penetration is relatively low, but the white LED in characteristics with incandescent bulbs competition conditions, so the application of special lighting market still has considerable potential, forecast to 2008 general lighting with white LED market will grow to $350 million. This white LED considerable room for growth in the general lighting market.

White LED technology has a lot of room for development. And its high luminous efficiency, low power consumption, long life, environmental protection and other characteristics will bring more market.