LED equipment investment in 2014 shows a new trend

The LED industry is out of the problem of overcapacity, and will restart equipment investment and expand production capacity in 2014. According to the International Organization for semiconductor equipment and materials (SEMI) According to the quarterly forecast report, investment in LED wafer manufacturing equipment will rise by 17 to 1. 2 billion US dollars by next year after experiencing continuous decline. Equipment Investment will also show a new trend: the main force of equipment investment in LED industry will be industry players and survivors, not new participants. The benefits brought by led TV, the optimistic attitude towards the long-term growth of solid-state lighting, and the sharp expansion of LED production capacity in the world in the past three years, etc. it has triggered a worldwide surge in interest in LED. The world production capacity of LED increased by 49 in 2011, 39 in and 19 in. The growth of China's LED manufacturing industry is also relatively prominent, rising from the monthly production capacity of 1 million wafers in 2010 to 6. 2 million wafers in 2013. In 2010 and 2011, most of the expansion of production capacity was due to manufacturers' overly optimistic prediction that the LED market would grow to 2015 US dollars by 20 billion. At present, the forecast for LED packaging market is: by 2015, it will hover around 15 billion US dollars, with a compound annual growth rate of less than 5. The main reason for the downward adjustment of the forecast is that LED has become more efficient in use (Such as improving the light pipe in the display) LED packaging has greater efficacy and slower transformation to LED lighting market. US market research firm StrategiesUnlimited said the average cost per thousand lumens fell from $13 in 2011 to less than 3. $65. The number of LEDs used in televisions has dropped by 1/3, and many SSL lamps use nearly half less LEDs than in previous years. The number of LEDs used in mobile devices and notebook computers has also decreased. Automobiles are still a growing market, but their share of the entire LED market is only 10. 5%. So many new production capacity and new enterprises, as well as the declining growth rate, have caused the price of LED packaging to drop sharply in recent years, causing serious financial difficulties to many enterprises, especially newly established enterprises. The capacity utilization rate of factories has declined within the scope, especially in China. Sales of MOCVD System, the key production equipment of LED epitaxial wafer, plummeted. MOCVD companies such as Veeco and Aixtron tripled their sales in 2010, but their revenue plummeted by nearly the same amount in 2012.