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4 December 2009

 

LEDs in general lighting to triple from 1.2bn in 2008 to 3.7bn by 2015

Global consumption of component-level LEDs used in general lighting applications reached over 1.2 billion units in 2008 and will more than triple to 3.7 billion LEDs by 2015, reckons market analyst ElectroniCast Consultants in its forecast of the worldwide consumption of single- and multiple-chip packaged LED ‘component-level bulbs’ used in selected solid-state lighting (SSL) general lighting applications (see Figure). 

Figure: LEDs used in solid-state general lighting (billion units). Credit: ElectroniCast Consultants.

“The Asia Pacific region (APAC) will show a huge ‘hockey-stick’ growth pattern, especially in the years 2013 to 2015 for both the exterior and interior general lighting applications,” says Stephen Montgomery, president of International Business at ElectroniCast. “ElectroniCast provides a detailed analysis of conventional and high-brightness (HB) LEDs in this study. We expect the worldwide use of white HB-LEDs in solid-state general lighting systems to exceed 1 billion units by 2015,” he adds. 

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