Take a look at the world's LED brand three echelon

In recent years, the semiconductor lighting industry in the global context of energy saving and environmental protection has been rapid development. The influx of the influx of various capital, traditional enterprises and LED confrontation with the new army, technology and patents to compete, the market and the channel for all the birth of this new industry development and maturity. In the fierce global competition background, a batch of excellent LED brand gushing effect and the impact of the global lighting industry pattern.

At present, the global semiconductor lighting industry has formed brand distribution and competition in the United States, Europe and Asia three regions led a situation of tripartite confrontation. According to market share, technical strength and R & D capability of brand division, global LED brand pattern at this stage has been presented to the United States, Europe and Japan as the industry leader, South Korea, Taiwan followed the mainland, Chinese echelon distribution situation in Malaysia and other countries and regions actively follow up. Among them, the Japanese LED with strong technical strength, in the high-end LED market; Europe as a strong regional traditional lighting, has a large share in the global lighting market; Chinese industry due to rapid development in recent years, has become an important production base of global LED.

Global LED industry brand distribution pattern

Global LED

Brand distribution

Upper reaches

Middle reaches

downstream

U.S.A

CREE (CREE), GE lighting (Gelcore), PHILPS (Lumileds), Wei Yi branch (VEECO)

Europe

OSRAM (OSRAM), Ace strong (Aixtron), Wei Yi Ke (VEECO)

Japan

Nichia, TOYOTA

Toshiba, Matsushita, SHARP, Hitachi

The Republic of Korea

Samsung (Samsung), LG, epivalley, Seoul semiconductor

Taiwan

EPISTAR, canyuan, Hua Yuan, Kun, Guangjia

Ronda, Ai Disen, and Bai Hong, Lite billion light, Wang Qi

South Asia optoelectronics, Jia Jing, light Lin, etc.

Chinese Mainland

Three, Elec-Tech, Silan, Huacan, Tsinghua Tongfang

Ruifeng, poly fly, Lehman, country star, Mu Linsen, Li

NVC, Chau Ming, Yuan Hui, KingSun, TCL, etc..

The first brand echelon: the United States, the European Union, Japan

In the semiconductor lighting market, the leading global LED manufacturers are mainly distributed in the United States, the European Union, as well as Japan's three regions. The main brand representative for Japan's Nichia (Nichia) and TOYOTA (Toyoda Gosei), the synthesis of CREE and Philips Lumileds and OSRAM in Europe (Osram) the five major manufacturers, these manufacturers all have strong technical strength and production capacity in the upstream, holds more than 50% of the global LED core patent, core strength the technology monopoly is also affected the LED product and market oriented.

As Europe and the United States, Japan lighting industry earlier, so the cultivation of many large LED enterprises, these enterprises with its strong financial strength and advanced technology, adopting vertical integration business model, from the extension, chip manufacturing to packaging and even the application domain, covering the whole industry chain of LED.

The United States is the traditional strong area of global LED, the industry is mainly concentrated in the high technology content and extension of chips, by maximizing the LED industry to master the core technology to achieve profits, has been formed from the substrate epitaxial - chip packaging application of a complete industrial chain, the high degree of vertical integration. Its main brands are CREE, Philips Lumileds and GE three manufacturers, covering the global lighting market. Although CREE is a new lighting enterprise, but with its advanced technology has become a pioneer in the LED lighting industry. In March 2008, CREE completed the veteran Lighting Fixture manufacturer LED Inc acquisition, which has been further strengthened in recent years, rich products and advanced technology, with silicon carbide (SiC) material advantage, CREE has grown into a famous manufacturer of global LED epitaxy, chip, packaging, LED lighting solutions and compounds semiconductor materials, power devices and RF integrated and industry leader.

Philips Lumileds Lighting is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of PHILPS, headquartered in San Jose, California, is the world's leading manufacturer of high power LED. In addition, another U.S. giant GE lighting products are also all over the world, with a large semiconductor R & D and production institutions.

In Europe, it is mainly based on OSRAM lighting experts in Germany, which is an important member of the SIEMENS group, one of the world's two major manufacturers of electric light source, with excellent light source products and world-famous. OSRAM PHILPS's flip chip technology, film Gan technology and CREE silicon carbide obtrapezoid vertical structure technology since a faction, they layout of deep and wide, the future will be the brand oriented, seize the high-end lighting market, and formed a close cross patent network.

From the revenue perspective, Japan is the world's largest producer of LED, accounting for about half of the market share, the main manufacturers Nichia Corporation and TOYOTA company synthesis. The Nichia Corporation for producers LED the world's largest, expertise in the production of fluorescent powder and a variety of colors of LED, INGAN is a global leader in LED, is known to produce high brightness white LED and power LED. TOYOTA, headquartered in Aichi, Japan, produces auto parts and LED. From the beginning of 1986, LED research and development, in 1991 successfully developed the world's first GaN Blue LED, eliminating the last obstacle to the realization of white LED. At present, the main production of mobile phone LED backlight products.

Two representative LED enterprises in Japan