Strategies Unlimited Forecasts LED Revenue to Peak at $16.2B in 2014. Revenues for high-brightness LEDs grew by a remarkable 108% to $11.2 billion in 2010, according to a new market report by the leading firm following the LED market, Strategies Unlimited. The growth was propelled by applications in TV backlight units, but expanding supply and a slowdown in overall TV demand in 2011 led to a drastic drop in LED prices, leading to a revised estimate of $12.3 billion in LED revenues for 2011.

In 2010, more than 50% of the global LED packages were produced in China and players included various package companies that were funded by Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the U.S., and others.

The LED lighting market (packaged chips) is forecasted to grow to $1.65 billion by 2012 making this one of the fastest growing segments in the LED industry. SSL has the potential to be the next generation lighting technology and the LED lighting fixture industry is an emerging market application for packaged HB-LEDs.

LED driver IC sales will reach nearly $3.5 billion in 2015 from nearly $2 billion in 2010, a compound
annual growth rate of 12%. LED driver electronics enable efficient and reliable performance of LEDs.  As the overall electrical circuit and a large part of the overall design, the driver is more important than the LEDs alone, but it is surprisingly complex and the market is highly fragmented across countless applications.

This report contains the results of the most comprehensive LED supply model for the LED Industry. The supply data consists of InGaN and GaN LEDs (i.e., blue, green, and white). For the report when GaN is referred to, it also includes InGaN. The analysis consists of specific reactor and configuration data combined with maintenance, epi yield, chip yield, package yield, and in-spec selection as well as factory utilization and much more.

Outdoor Area and Street Lighting Market is in a state of flux. Are growth rates sustainable? What drives the market for LED area lighting luminaires?

Report includes an application analysis, worldwide market review, five-year market forecast and an appendix of LED Luminaire manufacturers.

In 2009, while the global semiconductor market posted negative growth due to the worldwide recession, the HB LED market grew by 6.2%. Much of the growth came from an increase in LED display backlight penetration and growth in the illumination sector.

HB LEDs have penetrated a variety of niche lighting applications and are beginning to be used in several white light applications that could be considered as part of the general illumination market. The market for HB LEDs in lighting amounted to $340 million in 2007, or approximately 5% of the overall HB LED market.

The LED market has grown at an phenomenal pace over the last ten years fueled by applications in the mobile appliance sector, namely cellular handsets. Once accounting for 55% of the LED market, increasing efficiencies and a saturation of the handset market has caused this sector to now be only 45% of the LED market.

The LED lighting market (packaged chips) is forecasted to grow to $1.65 billion by 2012 making this one of the fastest growing segments in the LED industry. SSL has the potential to be the next generation lighting technology and the LED lighting fixture industry is an emerging market application for packaged HB-LEDs.