2017 is nearing the end of the year. In this year, the LED industry has experienced a big ups and downs. The impact of the oled industry, LED circle honestly fell into signs of decline. What surprises will be brought to us in 2018.

01 / Micro LED is beautiful, but the Mini LED is more realistic

In 2016, the LED circle is the hottest, but the Apple Watch, which has been rumored for a long time in 2017, does not use the screen of the Micro LED. The author who has been looking forward to it has lost a lot, but it is good to have a Mini LED.

From the Micro LED to the Mini LED strategy, from the entire LED industry, the technology that has always felt that it will take a long time to mass production has taken a step forward. Perhaps many people see that the Micro LED is far away from us, because everyone is doing Mini LED, but the author sees the LED further.

Prospect of LED industry in 2018

Although Mini LED is considered to be a transitional product of Micro LED, I believe that Mini LED should be treated as a new product form. First of all, let's not say that the Micro LED can not be energy-producing. It means that the current LCD and LED display, at least the demand for LED is still the largest market in the display field. Even if OLED has caused a big impact, at least now and in the future. In the 3-5 years, LCD display still has a place, especially in the case of continuous investment of China's large-size LCD line, the backlight market still has a large demand.

In addition, the LED display is also accelerating to a smaller size, and the Mini LED is between the small pitch and the Micro LED, so if the small spacing continues down, the Mini LED still has strong market demand. support.

Therefore, regardless of whether the Micro LED can be mass-produced, the Mini LED is also a huge opportunity for the LED industry.

02 / Small pitch into the cinema, the next step is TV

For LED displays, in addition to mobile phones, monitors and TV screens, as well as movie screens, in 2017, Samsung launched the world's first LED movie screen and installed it in Korea Lotte Movie World Tower. Moreover, it is reported that Samsung will bring the first Micro LED TV at the CES 2018 exhibition held in Las Vegas in January 2018. Among them, the maximum size is 150吋, and mass production will be put on the market in 2018.

According to the author's understanding, Samsung's movie screen is a screen with a screen diagonal of 455 inches, a width of 1,024 cm and a height of 540 cm. In fact, it is a small pitch display in p2.5 and 1010 packages. However, Samsung's participation is of great significance to the future development of small spaces. At the same time, Samsung plans LED TVs in 2018, which will also open up new opportunities for small-pitch LEDs in the future.

03 / iPhone X pushes 3D sensing, VCSEL grows high speed blue ocean

2017 is Apple's 10th anniversary, so the iPhone has also undergone a major revision, one of which is Apple's iPhone X uses Face ID. The iPhone X's Face ID is not the same as the face recognition of a typical mobile phone. With the Face ID, the iPhone can also detect whether the user's eye is watching the iPhone's display, and the iPhone X also has 3D sensing.

There is a structured light receiver module, which consists of six components, one of which is a VCSEL. Because the iPhone has always been the vane of the mobile phone industry, the industry predicts that this will bring about the rapid growth of VCSEL.

It is worth mentioning that, near the end of 2017, Apple announced another plan to invest $390 million in its VCSEL array supplier Finisar, which is used in the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera. However, not long after, Finisar released a message saying that Apple had reported a $390 million report to Finisar. Apple did not make a debt or equity investment in Finisar. The amount mentioned by Apple was on behalf of the company for a period of time. Future business.

Regardless of investment or not, Finisar's VCSEL business will usher in new growth. Because VCSEL provides support for some of the main features of iPhone X, such as Face ID, Animoji and portrait mode selfies, and the near-inductive capabilities of AirPods. The iPhone X's sales continue to break through, and more products will be applied in the future.

According to reports, Apple's new development of a high-end 2018 iPad will use many of the design elements of the modified iPhone X, including built-in Face ID support.

If the development of the supporting industrial chain of Apple in the past, the future VCSEL is bound to become a new growth momentum of the LED industry.

04 / LGD launches the world's largest production line, OLED lighting ushers in a new transformation

OLED lighting has always been considered to be unattainable, too expensive, and unable to enter the home. It can only be positioned in some high-end designs, and the market is not big. However, in 2017, LGD announced the launch of the world's largest OLED lighting production line, and launched the OLED lighting brand "Luflex".

The 5th generation OLED lighting production line (1,100mm x 1,250mm) of the LGD Gumi P5 plant, which is fully put into mass production, is the largest in the world, and the second generation production line (370mm) with the original monthly production of 4,000 pieces. Compared to x 470mm), it can be produced in an amount of about 30 times or more. LGD plans to use 15,000 pieces as the initial production volume, and then gradually expand production. Through mass production, it is expected to improve quality while ensuring price competitiveness and accelerating market share.

As a veteran of the LED industry, I have always maintained a credible attitude towards new technologies and are not credible. I believe that LED people have experienced a T8 LED tube 300 even higher prices, but today only a few dozen prices.

Will OLED lighting impact LEDs in the end, will it always be expensive? In fact, from the current investment in OLEDs in China, it is also the largest OLED manufacturing center in the future. There is still much room for price reduction for LEDs. Is it true that OLEDs have no chance to cut in? I think I need to ask a question mark.

It is also worth mentioning that at the Guangya Exhibition in 2017, the author found that OLED products have already entered the stage. Of course, there are still many shortcomings, but it does have his advantages. In 2018, it is considered to be the first year of China's OLED display. There will be many 6-generation AMOLED production lines released one after another. By 2020, the production capacity will be greatly increased. Will this have a new impact on LED lighting? I think as a person in the LED industry, Still need to understand the changes in competitive technology before you can sit on your own "fishing boat."

05 / COB display into the lobby, the small spacing market ushered in new adjustments

The COB small-pitch display is not really a new concept, but why should it be proposed in the LED industry in 2017? Because Lehman publicly launched their COB display products in 2017.

LED display companies have a lot of listed companies, why should Lehman launch it? In fact, this has nothing to do with Lehman, but because the previous COB display screens are some second- and third-line brands, and mainstream listed companies feel that there are many problems, it is difficult to mass-produce large-scale promotion.

In 2017, Lehman Optoelectronics introduced the third-generation COB small-pitch LED display panel, which announced that it will be mass-produced in the first half of 2018. This is representative of COB display products. Regarding the future COB display, the author believes that with the small gaps reaching a certain bottleneck, the advantages of COB may be more prominent.

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