Abstract
The market for high-brightness LED driver ICs is increasingly diverse and
presents significant growth opportunities. The dollar market is projected to
grow significantly faster than unit sales. The higher dollar growth rate is a
reflection of high growth rates for higher-cost LED driver ICs such as those
used in LCD backlighting, signs, and automotive applications, compared with
lower growth rates for lower-cost driver ICs used in mobile phone handsets and
other portable applications. Among other important and surprising results, the
report finds that 2008 will be the first year that the use of LED lighting
exceeds the use of neon in general-purpose channel letter signs in North
America.
These forecasts are based on a detailed analysis of 53 application
sub-segments in the following areas: small LED backlight units (BLUs),
(<7"); medium LCD BLUs, (7" to 15"); large LCD BLUs, (>15");
automobiles; light trucks; commercial trucks and buses; signs, signals and
billboards; illumination; projection displays; and photographic lighting. In
addition to developing the detailed unit sales forecasts, this analysis
provides a detailed projection of average selling prices for LED driver ICs in
each of the 53 application sub-segments. Those pricing forecasts, combined
with the unit sales analysis, produce a detailed forecast of dollar sales
trends in each of these application sub-segments.
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