2017 global LED manufacturers to accelerate into the niche-type applications

According to the latest research shows that in 2016 the global LED market output value of 14.8 billion US dollars, an annual growth of 3.4%. Looking ahead 2017, LED market competition is still fierce, manufacturers will accelerate to small-pitch display screen, infrared and UV LED niche market in order to profit, estimated 2017 global LED market output value will reach 15.4 billion US dollars, the growth of 4 %.

2016 global LED market output growth rate is not high, but the overall industry has undergone dramatic changes. Storage in the super said, in the small gap between the rise of LED display demand, the upstream LED chip supply tight, making part of the LED chip and packaging devices, the first five years of the first price increases.

As for the downstream LED lighting products also appeared no small price increases, mainly due to reflect the rising cost of raw materials, especially copper, aluminum and other bulk metal raw materials in the second half of this year, rising prices, making LED lighting manufacturers have to announce Price to reflect the cost. However, the ultra-pointed out that this wave of LED prices on the manufacturers of substantial profit to help limited, so most of the LED manufacturers are actively thinking about the transition strategy to accelerate into the niche market.

Small pitch LED display screen market has become a battleground

2016 small spacing display screen by many traditional LED display screen manufacturers favor, mainly because of the increasing demand for high quality users. Storage in the ultra-said, small-distance LED display screen led to the use of the number of LED was a series of geometric growth, attracting many Chinese LED packaging plant to expand production capacity to steal this piece of market pie, in a large capacity competition pressure, LED industry tend to Move to a market with a pitch of less than P1.5 mm, with higher precision specifications to avoid price competition.

UV-C LED application market will be with the efficiency of the gradual expansion

Storage in the ultra-pointed out that the deep UV spectrum of UV-C LED manufacturers are also concerned about the next blue ocean market. UV-C LED has a function of sterilization and purification, whether it is home appliances, water treatment, or air purification and other applications are highly demanding field. At present, UV-C LED chip external quantum efficiency is still low, and expensive, in the past mostly Japan, Europe and the United States research institutions in the technology development, not economies of scale, however, as more and more LED manufacturers began to pay attention to UV -C LED, and put into research and development resources, will help accelerate the development of UV-C LED market.

Infrared LED components are more diverse

Infrared LED technology is relatively mature, and low cost of the product, and the application gradually diversified, including the iris identification, VR application of somatosensory detection, there are opportunities for infrared LED business. Storage in the ultra-said that in recent years, infrared laser has become the market attention, including handheld devices and car networking are also imported. However, the key to the growth of infrared LED applications is still in the terminal system industry will, and how to use infrared components to create a new value-added.

Micro LED products are expected to come out

Micro LED is the opportunity to replace the OLED panel next generation display technology, attracting many brands to invest in R & D resources. Although the current Micro LED distance to replace the existing TFT-LCD (LCD) and OLED display is still quite far away, and the market there are still many new display technology in the competition, but some manufacturers have plans to launch market positioning is different from the LCD or OLED Panel Micro LED display applications, through the lower PPI or relatively small number of pixels to accelerate the realization of mass production. 2017 years will be expected to see Micro LED related products come out one after another.