At present, the biggest problem of high-power LED is that there is no large-scale application abroad, because the LED originally used as backlight display is not mature in technology, especially the light attenuation caused by high-power LED heating greatly reduces the theoretical life of LED. At the same time, LED lighting system involves a series of links such as light source, packaging, lamps, power supply and control. The complexity of the system also determines that the problem of a certain link will affect the final use efficiency. For example, the theoretical life of L E D street lamps is more than 5 years, but with the current technology, it will definitely be replaced in less than two years.
In the LED industry chain, epitaxial wafers and chips account for 70% of the profits, while LED packaging and application only account for about 30% of the profits. At present, epitaxial wafer production is basically controlled by foreign enterprises (domestic MOCVD needs high-priced imports); In terms of chips, domestic enterprises are mainly concentrated in the low-power middle and low-end fields, and there are still technical, mass production and quality problems in the high-power (used for lighting) high-end fields.
Therefore, after considering the above factors, savvy foreign lighting giants have jointly blocked patents and monopolized the upstream high-end market of LED industry. China is once again subject to people and at the bottom of the industrial chain. Epistar Corporation, Toyoda Gosei, Corey Cree, Osram, Zumtobel Group of Austria, Royal Philips Electronics, Seoul Semiconductor, TOE of Europe and Japan, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. of Japan, Showa Denko K.K and other LED giants all adopted the expansion mode of "integrating Lian Heng" and established a strict patent network around the world.
It is difficult for China company to produce high-power lighting LED light sources with independent intellectual property rights, and the patent transfer must pay huge patent fees, so the imitation export faces great legal risks (similar to the automobile industry or DVD). This is also the main reason why high wattage LED products with relatively good quality remain high and will exist for a long time. Small and medium-sized power LED has independent ability in China, and the field of high power and high wattage is under the patent barrier of foreign giants. At this stage, blindly promoting immature high-power LED lighting is to do LED product experiments for multinational giants in disguise and be a pioneer in cultivating their markets! A large number of LED enterprises in the middle and lower reaches of China have fallen. The upstream giants are unscathed and full of pots. So at present, multinational giants only sell high-power LED light sources with the highest profit! If one day the application and market of high-power LED are mature, they will enter the market in a large scale with systematic product applications, and the giants can attack the city more freely and provide them with huge market profits. They're ready! What about our LED lighting enterprise? Without self-core competitiveness, does the controlled industrial upgrading upgrade its own industry or provide markets and profits for industrial upgrading in other countries?