The Information Network, a market research firm based in New Tripoli, has released a new market research report titled ‘The Solid State Lighting Revolution: Market Analysis And Insight On Reducing Manufacturing Costs.’
According to the report, the unit shipments of LEDs are anticipated to increase over 40% in 2011 and twofold between the period of 2010 to 2013. The unit shipments of high brightness LEDs is expected to reach about 135 billion units in 2011 when compared to less than 100 billion units in 2010, while the backlight LEDs will reach 30 billion units, compared to 20 billion in 2011.
As per the report, Nichia was the top player with a 15% market share in 2010 followed by Samsung LED with a 10.5% share. In 2010, Aixtron was the top player in the MOCVD tool market with over 55% share, while Veeco retained the second position with a 41% market share.
The President at The Information Network, Robert Castellano said that China accounted for about 35% share of MOCVD deployments in 2010.
At present, the LED is a $10 billion market when compared to the semiconductor market worth $250 billion. The MOCVD tools account for 8% of the price of a packaged LED, while other front-end tools account for over 3% of the price. Back-end procedures, including packaging, chip separation and substrate removal, account for 65% of the cost of a packaged LED.
According to the report, the backlight segment will be the vastly expanding sector in the high brightness LED market with an overall CAGR of over 40%, influenced by the 300.3% CAGR of the LCD TV segment between the period of 2007 to 2012.
Source: http://www.theinformationnet.com