Under the trend of low prices, LED industry is difficult to reproduce explosive growth

Taiwan faces in the recently held LED industry price trends seminar pointed out that the LED industry this year, the recovery trend is established, but with the price decline is still high, LED factory profit space is still subject to compression.

And trends ITRI Industrial Economics Research Center (IEK) analyst Guo Ziling believes that in the price trend, LED industry to explosive growth, Taiwan factory should take the scale economy to make up for lack of energy, and in cooperation with the brand factory open to the sea, and the farm work in emerging market breakthrough.

Observation of the global LED lighting market, the overall market size estimates ITRI IEK last year was less than $10 billion, the market size in 2020 will be about $79 billion in 2011 to 2016, the compound growth rate of 45%, but with the increase of the life of the light source, the market is expected in 2015 2016 to 2020 after saturation, growth slowed down, compared with LED light source the market is gradually mature, the development direction of digital and intelligent lighting market, lighting market share will gradually move up, estimated 2020 LED lighting market will reach $58 billion.

CREE launched low-cost LED bulbs, lead to other global brands factory follow up low-cost strategy, LED lighting penetration rate is expected to be more quickly pulled up, launched less than $10 lighting products from CREE's point of view, the overall estimate of the ex factory price of less than $2, the LED assembly plant, downward pressure on prices will be greater, Guo Ziling believes that under this trend the LED industry is difficult to have explosive growth.

LED low price trend officially forming, in international companies to join Guo Ziling said, facing international companies in Taiwan factory has high power LED components market niche, while the factory at a low price to grab a single menacing, Taiwan factory accounted for the proportion of global output in recent years continued to decline, while product prices continue to decline, then lead to the Taiwan factory although the output value slightly. But the business growth, interest rate has continued to decline.