Beijing on October 31 message, the Chinese touchscreen Reuters, after years of development, LED industry has matured, the price is close to the sweet spot. In addition to lighting outside, applied LED backlight applications are becoming more common. Just observe the current global LED production capacity, supply has begun to exceed demand, so prices continued to decline. This is of course for the popularity of LED have a positive benefit. However, due to falling prices, but also lead to an overall slowdown in LED output rendering.

As the market trend saturation, TrendForce said changing supply chain will be the 2013 LED backlit industry highlight. Since the TV panel plant of its own brands and LED production capacity have been build complete, or that through OEM cooperation to ensure that the LED supply with no fear, and therefore its own production capacity to meet the needs of 60 to 70 percent, the remaining proportion of demand again deduction foundry alliance supply, release orders, leaving only less than 15%, the LED backlight supply chain alliance in 2013 will be integrated in various forms, the future is still patent maker and has dominated syndicated LED manufacturers to form the bigger situation.


LED will show jumping growth in tablet PC applications, according to TrendForce data show overall tablet shipments from 2012's 95 million units in 2013 to 100 million shipments in terms of 3 million units. In addition, iPad Mini because of lower prices, the volume is also lightweight, expected sales figures will be a big bang, LED backlight demand for the tablet market as a whole also push up effect.

As for the prospect of the mobile phone market in 2013, because the mobile phone is the first to use LED backlight technology, the fastest to reach saturation and permeability of application, in the context of light and power, the phone keypad backlighting and camera flash also uses LED as a light source. Past the traditional mobile phone keypad backlight LED products although also used, but the smart phone penetration rate of increase, the shift to the touch panel interface and gradually declined. But on the other hand, larger power-light / flash Flash LED was substantial growth in smart phone driven.