Crystal power: LED penetration TV panel up to 3% next year

EPISTAR chairman Li Bingjie 17, said that this year is expected to maintain the crystal electric notebook computer panel (NB) permeability in 10% to 15% level, and for large size TV panel the massive expansion of LED grain, target to reach 3% penetration rate in 2009, equivalent to LED NB 100 times the market demand at present.

Currently on the market by the LED backlight in estimating NB permeability, no consensus; Li Bingjie pointed out 17 days in the stock exchange held in Hongkong investment conference, the cause may be different from the definition of various manufacturers of NB, the crystal power itself, for example, that does not contain the ASUS PC to the small size of the NB. This year, the NB crystal electric permeability for the 10% target set to 15%, a total of about 15 million taiwan.

In the direction of product development, Li Bingjie stressed that the future will continue to stabilize the crystal electric large size TV panel backlight development, 15 inches above the panel will be the decisive growth factor. From the economic point of view of the scale, the TV market is large, the panel size is large, if you can eat 10% of the TV market, is to eat at 300 times the size of the NB panel market, tempting cake.

However, Li Bingjie also said that due to the LED TV backlight is still in its infancy, LED manufacturers capacity at this stage can not provide such a large volume of shipments. In the field of television, crystal electric target in 2009 to reach 3% penetration, the conversion results close to the current LED in the application of NB about 100 times.

Li Bingjie pointed out that the world now has the ability to supply large-scale TV backlight orders LED plant is only three, respectively, Nichia (Nichi-a), CREE and crystal, crystal electric and the advantage of supply flexibility, high competitive niche.

The technology of product life cycle, Li Bingjie believes that the science and technology commodity market share is usually in the attack on the 3%, it has roughly followed by economies of scale, improve market acceptance, market share will be greatly improved, so Li Bingjie hopes to reach 20% in 2010 to 30% penetration.

Source: Taiwan Economic Daily