2014 car market will push the demand for LEDs to $1 billion

In December 7, 2007, Strategy Analytics's latest research - "LED automobile market demand: external lighting brings significant growth opportunities" in the prediction of LED application in LCD backlight lighting and external part of the car (currently the latest is based entirely on the LED headlamps) will expand. LED, OSRAM, Lumileds vendors including Nichia, is currently working with the automotive partners, in order to seize the large market share (by 2014 the market value of $1 billion).

Due to the use of a higher priced highlight LED in external lighting components and LCD display backlighting, automotive lighting and driver information (driver information) applications will bring the highest growth rate.

Internal LED applications will continue to constitute the bulk of the automotive LED demand, limiting the use of LED headlights in the regulatory barriers are being broken, more LED will be used for automotive far and near light. Strategy Analytics believes that early implementation will be subject to cost constraints, LED lighting applications outside the traditional lighting market will take two years. With the LED device manufacturing directly related to the cost of the problem and the additional cost of heat dissipation components and electronic control problems still exist, which will hinder the development of highlighting LED in the production of low profit automotive parts. (http://compoundsemiconductor.net/blog/2007/12/automotive_markets_steer_led_d.html)