TSMC LED lighting R & D center before the completion of the target five

Recently, the latest news shows, with its LED lighting R & D center was completed, the Department of Taiwan semiconductor manufacturers TSMC TSMC has the development goal of the company after the lock in the top five in the world.

At present, the world's top five LED vendors are PHILPS (Royal Philips Electronics), OSRAM (Osram), the United States Cree, Nichia (Nichia) and TOYOTA (Toyoda Gosei synthesis).

In addition, TSMC said the company's LED lighting research and development center is expected to be completed by the end of 2010, in 2011 will be officially entered the mass production stage. In addition to the substrate process TSMC will use silicon as the basis, and make full use of production brings cost advantages, and give up the sapphire substrate process commonly used by other LED manufacturers, the production of its own brand LED light source, light engine products.

Although most of the industry next year on the LCD TV backlight demand generally optimistic, but TSMC is that higher prices will make 2011 the models of market share is lower than this year, unless the LED TV prices fell sharply, otherwise its share will not reach 40%.

Bring new hope backlight LCD TV rising demand for the LED industry, in order to catch up with this class ride many manufacturers began to actively increase the number of MOCVD devices, it is reported that in total, MOCVD equipment is expected to reach 300 units, the number of Taiwan area is expected to reach 100 units. But the manufacturers do not hope to reduce the amount of LED used in the backlight through some design changes, after all, this idea directly resulted in LED TV shipments growth under the condition of LED chip supply tight.