Since the ” national semiconductor lighting project coordination leading group ” was established, it passed 6 years ago. The so-called ” semiconductor lighting industry to do be in full swing “, since the central ministries and local governments are cheated, confused and disoriented. Because they are all eager to semiconductor lighting in energy saving and emission reduction work achievement. Having seen national upcoming “ten city lights ” semiconductor lighting project will be started, my feeling is that China ‘s semiconductor lighting industry run into a semiconductor lighting “communistic society  by the so-called ” world class”.

When we take a look at the domestic semiconductor lighting enterprise technology status as a veteran in the LED industry for more than 10 years, it is that some could not sleep.

LED industry chain from top to bottom, including some major aspects of the epitaxial material preparation, die preparation device package, and application products manufacturing. Preparation aspects of the epitaxial material and die is a core part of the industry chain, with the highest technical content, funding. Without independent intellectual property rights of the epitaxy and die manufacturing, it would not mastered the core technology of the semiconductor lighting, and Such technical, if without many years of accumulated technology or substantial technology introduction, the domestic enterprises is very difficult to compete in a short period of time with the international advanced level.

Now, at every turn, there is a new company or a new technical team parachuted into the Chinese mainland, they said how high technical level for their products , with independent intellectual property rights, and vowed to take samples to show us. But they do not carry with the core technology to have the guidance of experts, many of these take a direct foreign imported components assembled, or it is imported chip package, most bit technology take imports epitaxial wafers  to do.

LED display system including the Beijing Olympics, how many chips are domestic enterprises produced? (Note: the chip, not the device, rather than display)

Let China’s semiconductor lighting industry take the more robust of it!

China’s semiconductor lighting industry peers determined to do a good job to support my post. Let us work together to put our industry well.

The advent of lighting products have a long history dating back now, but it is not a long time to develop as an industry. The lighting industry has been in the direction of the scale, brand development. The more well-known brands in the worldwide Philips, Os-ram, GE, Panasonic and others. In recent years, the share of sales of these enterprises accounted for 40-60% of the global lighting market.

The lighting scale in China’s lighting industry

The rapid economic development and the formation of the global processing and manufacturing center provide the opportunities in the lighting industry and at the same time, accompanied by increasingly fierce competition. To the end of February 2009, the lighting industry had more than 2963 companies, small businesses accounted for nearly 90% of the proportion, and large enterprises is only 15. Although there are a number of firms, yet a smaller proportion lighting limited to reach large-scale production led tunnel light. So the scale production of lamp enterprise are even more smaller, and unable to generate economies of scale. The lighting industry, large and dispersed, low industrial concentration, the whole industry is not more than 1% of a company’s market share. In lighting technology is highly developed, the format is quite mature in developed countries such as Germany, the United States and Japan, the entire lighting industry after several strong corporate integrated industry, 2 – 3 controls more than 95% of the country’s market share, industry concentration is very high.

Lighting companies in China

Competition in the domestic market are becoming more international, Philips, GE, Os-ram, represented by the internationally renowned brand known for its high-end technology accumulated over the years and the brand advantage, after several years of running, as well as the understanding of the Chinese market, has entered a stable development period, and occupy a great proportion of high-end products in the domestic market. Domestic enterprises with its price and service advantages are mostly positioning in the low-end market. With the lighting industry competition stage of evolution, whether it is to occupy the high-end market–Philips, GE, OSRAM and other international giants, still in the low-end market–FSL, Zhejiang sunshine and other domestic brands, no one can occupy more market share.