Tohoku earthquake has little impact on the LED industry

Dramexchange (TrendForce)'s LEDinside pointed out that although the significant impact the earthquake on the global information industry supply chain and the recovery of Japan's economy, but the impact on the LED industry is not great. Due to LED in the process of chemical reaction, unlike the semiconductor manufacturers must through multi-channel process, and the high requirements of earthquake. Japan's two leading LED manufacturers Nichia (Tokushima), Toyoda Gosei (Nagoya), are far away from the northeast of the disaster area, LEDinside asked the two companies did not have much impact and spread. Showa electrician SDK Japan LED production line is located in Chiba, still need to confirm whether the electricity, power outages.

Dramexchange (TrendForce) said that the Japanese economy is the earthquake hit, the reconstruction of the demand, the control before the earthquake in Kobe huge expenditures, Japan's public and private sector spending up to 13 trillion yen, the northeastern Japan earthquake reconstruction cost is also very impressive, including steel, cement and glass the industry demand will be the focus of automobile industry, vice versa. The demand for the IT industry, and the impact of the supply chain, the overall market is relatively negative. Just listed iPad2, for example, the recent consumption in Japan may be reduced, as expected before.