2, LED device price stabilization in power header
The mainland LED devices price encounter market rapid decline in 2012, with the market gets warmer and inventory gradually return to normal water levels stabilized, down about 6% quarterly decline, the price of LED devices at a lower water level 2013 LED devices prices on a quarterly basis, taking into account the price of LED chip space due to price war also fell, but other raw material prices are relatively stable, and labor and operating costs, there is an upward trend, Topology estimated decline further in 3 % or less.
In the case of space has become more and more small decline in the price of LED devices, LED Flood Light manufacturers tend to gradually replace the traditional low-power devices (0.06 ~ 0.1W), power devices (0.2 to 0.5 W), which used in indoor lighting.
For example, a 16W LED lamp in the LED industry, if it adopted 0.06W 3528 white devices, it needs 270 pieces, the total cost will be 32.9 yuan (about NT $ 158 yuan), and Luminous flux only 7lm. If it instead to use 0.4W 5050 white devices, it needs only 40, with a total cost of 14.3 yuan (about NT $ 69 yuan), and the luminous flux will be up to 38lm; the visible power chip encapsulation will be the future development trend.
3, 4-inch substrate and then speed up graphical substrate layout
Although the mainland sapphire substrate prices rose slightly in 2012 compared with the minimum of USD8 in 2011. Yet the overall market have an adequate supply, the price is always hovering within $ 9.5. In order to improve the product performance and gross margin, Sintek, East Jing Bo Lanter Suzhou sea platinum, crystal, Hefei Crystal Bridge, Ke Ruisi photoelectric, overweight invested graphical substrate (Pattern Sapphire Substrate; PSS) development, large-scale procurement lithography (Lithography) etching machine (Etching), and to improve the graphical capacity of the substrate. It is estimated that 2012 Continental graphical substrate penetration will exceed 30% in LED industry. And in 2013, it is expected to reach nearly 50%, and then pull the average selling price of the continent sapphire substrate market to inject new sapphire substrate industry vitality. Topology forecast 2013 average selling price of the sapphire substrate will fall about $ 15.