2015 LED drive IC sales are expected to exceed $3 billion 500 million

According to the research results, the market research company Strategies Unlimited in 2010, LED driven IC sales reached $2 billion. Expected in 2015, LED driver IC sales throughout the year will reach nearly $3 billion 500 million. From 2010 to 2015, LED driven IC sales Compound annual growth rate is expected to reach 12%.

Due to the rapid growth in demand for side light TV and display, so the current stage, the LED driver for the LED backlight source is the main point of growth. The LED lighting applications will be the next big cake".

The company said sales is expected to show explosive growth, but the increase of fierce price competition will limit the profits. AC-LED products will be as much as possible to reduce the number of driving the use of IC, AC-LED and even some products will be completely don't need to drive IC; but will not have a significant impact on the stage of the overall revenue, could even help to accelerate the LED lighting applications.

At this stage, the output value of IC for lighting drive is expected to maintain a CAGR of 40%. Focusing on the future development process, dimming, efficiency, power factor and price will be a strong challenge.

The top 10 LED driver IC vendors accounted for the entire output value of about 55%, about 30 integrated circuit vendors and affiliated manufacturers to share the remaining 44%. With the National Semiconductor Corporation Ns (TI) acquired by TI TI, is currently ranked first in the LED driver IC supplier. TI will be able to make use of advanced high voltage BCD process on 200 mm or larger diameter wafer manufacturing, in the future LED drive market, TI will play a crucial role.