Lighting has become the mainstream of LED applications, suppliers plan to increase production capacity

According to the latest quarterly LED Search market supply and demand forecast report pointed out that LED applications continue to rise, lighting will gradually become the main application, estimated in 2010 will grow by 20% compared to 2011. 2010 LED backlight and lighting revenues of $7 billion 200 million, $2014 is expected to reach $12 billion 700 million. Increasing demand for lighting market is the main driving force for strong growth in LED.

At the same time suppliers are aware of this trend and have plans to increase production capacity. We predict that in 2011 the global LED production capacity will reach 180 billion, will reach 227 billion in 2013.

LED overall market demand continues to improve, but the demand for LED backlight gradually reduced, and began to move towards LED lighting applications. Display Search senior analyst LeoLiu said, due to the fourth quarter of 2010, the first quarter of 2011 and second degrees of early LED backlight TV stocks higher and slow sales, LED backlight market demand thus reducing. However, we expect LED backlight demand in the third quarter to pick up and reach the highest level. "

Currently, LED backlight applications in all small and medium size LCD products, mobile PC penetration of nearly 100%, LCD display and LCD TV penetration has continued to improve, but the number of each LED package to reduce. 2011 LED backlight total demand for 45 billion 900 million. Since 2010, LCD TV has become the main application of LED backlight, accounting for 50% of demand, estimated to reach the highest value in 2012. However, with the reduction in the number of each LED package, 2013 TV demand will have a slight decline.