Global LED has formed a three-footed pattern in Asia, the United States and Europe

In recent years, the semiconductor lighting industry has developed rapidly and will gradually enter the general lighting field. As a result, the United States, Europe and Asian countries and regions have actively implemented semiconductor lighting development plans and even raised the semiconductor lighting industry to a national strategic height for systematic deployment. The United States "Semiconductor Lighting National Research Project", "Solid State Lighting (SSL) Research and Development Program", European "Rainbow Project", Japan "21st Century Lighting" Program, Korea "Photoelectron Industry Branch - GaN Semiconductor Luminous Project". The global LED industry has initially formed a distribution and competition pattern centered on Asia, North America, and Europe.

In terms of technology, international manufacturers such as Nichia and Toyota Odyssey, Cree, Lumileds, Orsam, and Seoulsemic ONductor represented the global LED industry. The highest level leads the development of the semiconductor lighting product industry. At present, the highest level of commercialization of light efficiency for power white LED devices is Cree's 132lm/W. Judging from the semiconductor lighting development road maps of the United States, Japan, and South Korea, by 2015, the LED light efficiency will reach an overall level of 150 lm/W or more. The tendency of LEDs to replace traditional light sources such as incandescent and fluorescent lamps has become the consensus of the industry. With respect to the world’s highest level of research and development, Cree announced in February 2010 that its laboratory data has reached 208 lm/W, which is a landmark record.

Market applications, according to a recent research report released by DigiTimes, benefiting from the rise of LED TV and the gradual replacement of traditional lighting technology by LED lighting, the 2010 LED output value increased by 55.6% year-on-year in 2009, and the global LED output value will remain at 25% per year. The above growth.

The sales growth rate of semiconductor lighting products in the Japanese market has been far ahead of other countries. Japan's NEC, Sharp, Toshiba, Panasonic, Hitachi and other large lighting manufacturers have introduced low-cost semiconductor lighting products. Currently, many electronic products stores in Japan are You can see all kinds of LED bulbs. According to the GKF Japan survey, the domestic sales of LED bulbs in the domestic market in Japan in December 2009 were approximately 33 times that in July, and it is expected to maintain the growth rate of more than 10 billion yen in the next 1 to 2 years.

The market access in the United States is very strict. The cost of the Energy Star standard, UL, and other certifications are expensive and cumbersome. In addition, affected by the financial crisis in 2008, the LED lighting market has not really started in the US market. According to the United States Solid State Lighting LED Development Roadmap, LED lighting will enter the fluorescent lighting market in 2012 and will replace incandescent and fluorescent lamps in 2012 and 2020 respectively.

Due to different interests and starting points, EU countries have caused delays in the introduction of many standards and regulations. Therefore, European market access standards and technical thresholds are relatively loose. Europeans have a relatively mature awareness of environmental protection and energy conservation, and have a relatively high degree of acceptance of environmental protection products. Governments in various countries have also introduced subsidy programs in the field of application of LED lamps. The application and promotion of LED lighting in the European market is relatively high. In some major European countries, supermarkets have begun mass sales of LED bulbs and spotlights below 10W. The lighting giants Philips and Osram have made major debuts of their application product series at the Frankfurt Lighting Fair in 2010 and have begun the construction and promotion of European LED lighting market channels.

South Korea and Taiwan in China have a complete industrial chain of consumer electronics products, and they attach great importance to LED backlighting for electronic products. However, European and American companies have little interest in LED backlighting for consumer electronics products. In 2009, the successful marketing of Samsung LED-TV led to the revolution of LCD TV backlighting in the world and promoted the rapid growth of LED products for backlighting in South Korea and Taiwan.