Backlight LED driver IC market demand quickly take off

In the face of more and more NB products to adopt LED backlight technology, in order to achieve power-saving, aesthetic and light-weight product demand, NB-specific backlight LED driver IC market demand is taking off quickly, and bring a lot of domestic IC design phase This emerging market is actively gathering upstream, middle and downstream resources. Among them, Lianyang, which was appointed by UMC Group, seems to be the fastest. The company expects to launch samples in the market in the fourth quarter. If it cooperates smoothly with customers, it can start shipping in 2008 and win the first prize.

Taiwanese IC design industry said that since the LED backlight technology of 13-inch and below NB products has reached more than 30% coverage, and 14 and 15-inch NB models, many brand manufacturers are actively considering the introduction of LED backlight technology. Therefore, in the foreseeable years, the market demand for LED driver ICs for NB backlights will show a high growth trend in the same order, because the growth of market pies in the future is amazing, and there are currently as many as Taiwan in China. More than 10 IC design companies have entered, many of which are analog ICs and LCD driver ICs.

However, although the growth of the LED driver IC market in NB backlights is amazing, but the foreign companies still raise the banner of patent protection, and the number of patents is amazing, the Taiwanese IC design industry wants to break through the encirclement, not a short time. What can be achieved. Despite this, Taiwanese IC design operators are still confident. After all, Taiwan has become the main distribution center for NB foundry in the world. Mastering more than 70% of NB business machines, as long as it takes time to cooperate with downstream NB foundries, LED driver ICs It’s only a matter of time before the order arrives.

Therefore, including the Taiwanese analog IC manufacturers, such as Lizhi, Zhixin, there have been related NB backlight LED driver IC development plans, as for the crystal and accumulation, originally focused on the advertising panel LED driver IC market simulation IC design operators, of course, will not let go of this market pie. Although the company has become the world's first-line LCD driver IC supplier, the company actually has a dedicated research team to evaluate the feasibility of entering the market for NB backlight LED driver IC products.

In addition to the analog and LCD driver IC suppliers, the advantages of its own high-voltage process technology cut into the NB backlight LED driver IC market, some IC design companies who have long been in contact with the NB factory also have strategies to enter the relevant market. Among them, the most obvious examples are Xunjie and Lianyang, which own the NB keyboard control chip product line, and have successfully established a good relationship with the NB factory, and have a stable customer base, seeking to join any new product line, especially NB backlight LED driver IC is also reasonable.

However, in this traditional drama where local IC suppliers want to share the foreign market share, there is no “excellent”, which is usually difficult to start smoothly, and therefore, although it is currently desired to cut into the NB backlight LED driver. There are as many as 10 IC design companies in the IC market, but the IC design company with NB factory, LED factory, and fab rich dad is more optimistic about the industry, including Lianyang and Xun. Jie, Zhixin and accumulation, after all, without the help of the nobles, to have the performance of the NB backlight LED driver IC in 2008, it is a bit idiotic.
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