2014, for many LED manufacturers is a fruitful year, but also a challenging year. Although the first half of 2014 demand from the lighting market stronger than expected, even once caused LED shortage.

However, because the client repeat orders and inventory of high end lighting pathways influence gradually emerged in the second half, many companies clearly feel the market demand and price competitive pressures frozen. So for many LED manufacturers, the second half performance different conditions, such as washing the Field sauna.

Faced with the upcoming 2015, LED industry and what trends do?

1. LED manufacturers expansion plan is still dependent on government grants, China is still the largest installed capacity of the region were the MOCVD
LEDinside estimates that in 2014 the global number of MOCVD newly installed capacity will reach 239 units. From installation to observe the number of regions, China is still the largest cases of installed MOCVD. Looking to 2015, because the measures in China some local governments still continued introduction of subsidies, so in 2015 in China is still more than 170 sets of installed capacity.
China's local government grants also follow the adjusted price of MOCVD equipment subsidies, currently an MOCVD subsidy payments declined from the previous RMB1000 million to RMB 500 million, but many manufacturers are still profitable. Overall, since the LED manufacturer expansion plans depend on local government grants, so the future of LED chip manufacturers will present the bigger phenomenon.

2. The big get bigger, Chinese LED manufacturers continue to increase market share
With China's LED chip plant upgrade their technology and production capacity of release, making China the world's chip output accounted for LED chip production value increased from 27% in 2013, is expected to 2014 is expected to increase to 36%. Past China's LED backlighting or lighting applications rely on the status of Taiwan-funded or foreign-funded enterprises nowhere to be seen.
Because of China's chip packaging manufacturers using domestic proportion constantly upgrading, the price is also quite competitive, so that Chinese manufacturers will gradually increase in the market share of the global LED industry.
3.LED lighting customers continue to look for more cost-effective solutions
LED lighting market demand because of falling prices end lighting products is to stimulate a lot of demand. Outlook 2015 main driving force for the growth of LED lighting products are still mainly from the LED bulb, LED lamp, and other alternative lighting products, and therefore for LED lighting customers the price and cost as the main consideration.
The price of a good power LED LED lighting products just to meet these requirements for continued price cuts, such as 3030 and 2835 LED market has become mainstream. The future of LED manufacturers are still looking for better heat dissipation material, through high-current LED driver to reduce the use of several pieces, even COB LED lighting has gradually been customers of all ages.
Apart from the price of LED, LED lighting manufacturers have begun to focus on other components driving power in the hope that through the whole system designed to achieve more cost-effective solutions.
4. Look for special applications to enhance the profitability of new blue ocean
LED due to intense price competition, so LED manufacturers hope to find some new special applications to improve profit. Such as non-visible LED gradually by LED manufacturers concerned, including UV or IR LED applications.
Although the limited size of the market is not visible LED's, can not be compared with other LED lighting or backlighting. However, due to technical difficulties, customization requirements, and the need for close cooperation with the system works, and therefore a high entry barrier. Without visible LED product gross margin was better than white LED.
From the supply chain to observe, UV LED and IR LED field dominated by Japan, Europe and the US manufacturers, Taiwanese LED manufacturers place, the future will have more and more LED manufacturers began to enter the field is not visible.
5. Car with LED output growth year after year, of which the growth rate of the largest exterior lighting
Car LED market with stable growth, among which car LED lighting with daytime running lights (DRL) and headlamps (H / L beam) grow the best, the main reason is that the high-power LED technology upgrade. With the decline in LED prices, vehicle use LED lighting gradually transferred from the high-end cars to the cars in order to drive the next few years, demand for automotive lighting.
Also part of the car LED application, or to vehicle panel LED backlight for the bulk. With the popularity of multimedia and sensing images increases, the traditional dashboards have been changed to the LCD panel, led backlight car demand.
6. Mobile slim trend, mobile phone backlight LED Specifications forward to 0.4t
Currently high-end phones gradually to light development, plus panel resolutions up, for how LED LED manufacturers have been more light, higher brightness, the challenge for the 2015 target. 0.4t LED mainstream backlight brightness specification stage high-end smart phone uses about fall 2500 ~ 2700mcd.
4.7 "screen, the backlight module is about 10 to 12 use LED as backlight, as compared with 0.6t 0.4t slimmer, also is the market volume products backlight thickness of the thinnest LED, packaging technology threshold is relatively higher, currently the main supplier for the Japanese LED manufacturers supply currently iPhone6 phone backlight has been imported 0.4t LED, coming even to thinner 0.3t LED forward.
7.FLASH LED for use in high-end mobile phones and gradually increase the number of stars
Since the iPhone to import double stars of different color temperature FLASH LED, more and more mobile phone brands have begun to follow suit. Some phones even emphasize the phone's timer function, import before the camera pixels up to 13 million pixel camera module, and with 4 Flash LED on the phone in order to achieve better photographic effect.
Currently Flash LED brightness range of about 180 ~ 240lm, each using a number of pieces ranging from 1 to 2, with the upgrading of mobile phone pixels, the phone manufacturers Flash LED flash specifications have become more sophisticated, Flash LED use number there is also continued growth.

8. The number of tablet computer shipments decline, the impact of tablet PCs LED backlight output
Over the past few years the number of shipments of tablet computers has remained high growth momentum, so a tablet computer with LED backlight LED manufacturers as the most growth potential of key products. But with the popularity of tablet PCs to improve product freshness and gradually subside, 2014 Tablet PC shipments overall number of first attenuation phenomenon. The number of future shipments will be diminishing.
With the tablet computer's ASP LED backlight yearly decline, coupled with a tablet computer shipments each year recession, LEDinside estimated 2014 annual output value of flat panel backlight LED decline to $ 476 million (YoY- 21.7%), while in 2015 flat backlight LED annual output of about 412 million US dollars (YoY- 13.4%).

9. TV backlight LED, toward reducing the number of teeth and improve color saturation in two different directions forward
TV LED backlighting With backlighting technology changes, as well as panel factory price pressure, making TV LED backlight output decline year by year. LEDinside estimates 2014 TV LED backlight value of about $ 2.39 billion, the annual growth of 14.3% decline, continuing a downward trend in 2015 will continue to show.
But TV LED backlight specification observed, the future will move in two directions. For low-end TV TV LED backlight kinds specifications of the drive to reduce the number of pieces through the use of LED more current, in order to achieve cost reduction requirements. But for high-end television species, in addition to improving 4K2K panel LED brightness to meet demand, import NTSC high color saturation standard 100 LED LED manufacturers will be the development focus.

10. The small spacing display penetration upgraded to display market growth momentum
LED display field gradually mature and saturated, although in 2014 Brazil World Cup effect, driving 2014 LED display market demand. But the next few years will be the lack of large-scale activities to boost public works spending, and therefore can only rely on the import of new technologies, such as small pitch displays and other products to create new market demands in the future.