Equipment observation: LED testing equipment market outlook can be expected

With the development of the semiconductor lighting industry in the world and the increasing requirements for LED product testing and standards, countries have gradually increased investment in semiconductor lighting inspection. The global market for semiconductor lighting photodetection equipment and instruments has grown rapidly. Especially since 2010, driven by the large-size LED backlight applications and the rapid development of global lighting applications, the global SMD packaging, high-power packaging and lighting production line production speed and production scale has increased significantly, including Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan. Many companies in the region are actively involved in large-scale expansion of investment, led to a substantial increase in investment in production of photoelectric detection equipment. In 2011, affected by the sluggish economic environment in Europe, despite the slowdown in investment expansion, the global market for LED photo-detection equipment and equipment still maintained an increase of around 5.9%, with a market size of US$507 million.

In the LED photodetection equipment and instrument market, the market for photodetection equipment for LED production has grown most rapidly. With the increase in the scale of LED production and the increase in the level of detection automation, the market scale has continued to grow rapidly in recent years. In 2010, the market size of photodetection equipment for LED production reached US$402 million, an increase of 43.9% over 2009. In 2011, as the pace of global economic recovery slowed down, the speed of investment in the LED industry slowed down, but the market size of photodetection equipment for LED production still increased by 6.7%, reaching US$428 million, which is higher than LED photo-detection. The overall growth rate of the equipment market.

At present, the market penetration rate of LED backlighting and general lighting reaches about 35% and 5% respectively. In the next few years, with the rapid development of LED backlight applications and general lighting application markets, the market penetration rate in 2015 will reach 90% respectively. And more than 30%. In the next few years, the global LED product production scale will grow rapidly, and the photoelectric detection equipment market for LED production will become the main driving force of the global LED photoelectric detection equipment market. In particular, the market for photoelectric detection equipment for production and the equipment market for automated lighting production lines will be rapidly developed with SMD LED production, high-power LED production, and LED lamp production as the core. With the start of the scale of the general lighting market, 2013 is expected to form a growth peak driven by the explosive growth of the LED lamp production and testing equipment market. It is estimated that in 2015, the global market size of LED photoelectric detection equipment and instruments is expected to reach 1.674 billion U.S. dollars, among which, the market scale of photoelectric detection equipment for LED production will reach 1.354 billion U.S. dollars.