On the 22nd, local time, the US International Trade Commission issued an announcement and again initiated the "337 investigation." 13 Chinese Led Lighting companies appeared in the list of companies surveyed.
When Zhang Tieyong, the deputy general manager of Shenzhen Jinyoutian Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. learned that the company had been listed in the “337 investigation†of the companies involved, the first reaction was a surprise. He had never heard anything called "337" before.
Unlike Jin Youtian, who was accidentally “invitedâ€, several large companies surveyed at the same time were no strangers to “337 investigationâ€. As early as 2008, the United States had conducted investigations on four patented led lighting companies in China.
The continuous investigation of patent infringement of China’s LED lighting companies by the United States reflects China’s shortcomings and constraints on LED technology, and reflects China’s extremely tough technical road from the LED industry.
10 years behind the "technology" is not as good as people in the early 90s of the last century, Japan after the study of blue LED, soon resolved the white LED, making LED lighting possible. After the advent of white LEDs, they have developed rapidly. Over the past 10 years, the luminous efficiency of white LEDs has increased by nearly 10 times. LEDs have begun to enter the lighting field as a new type of solid-state light source (SSL), and a number of powerful LEDs have been established in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Lighting companies have risen one after another.
10 years later, in June 2003, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Education, the former Ministry of Construction, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Light Industry Federation, established the National Semiconductor Lighting Project Coordination Leading Group to launch the National Semiconductor Lighting Project. In the same year, National Semiconductor Lighting was established. Engineering R & D and Industry Alliance. As a symbol of this, China's LED lighting industry has started.
"Our LED lighting industry is 10 years behind the world. In the late 1990s, Japan's LED lighting industry has already achieved industrialization." Jun Jun, Deputy Secretary General of National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering R&D and Industry Alliance, told reporters .
Beijing Semiconductor Lighting Technology Center Secretary-General, Zibo told reporters that although China's LED lighting industry has made considerable progress, but the status quo in the master core technology is still not optimistic, the relevant core intellectual property rights are basically in the hands of foreign manufacturers .
"From the perspective of the world-wide development of GaN-based LED industry, the top five companies - US Cree, Osram Germany, Philips Philips, Nichia Japan and Toyota Synthetics have 80% - 90% of original invention patents." Bo introduced.
According to Qi Jun, at present, GaN-based LED lighting products account for more than 80% of all LED products, and its core technology is mainly focused on the formation of GaN-based epitaxial wafers. "There are about 1,000 patents on this technology, which are basically in the hands of Japanese companies. Our company only has a handful of patents on the edge."
The "weak and small" LED industry powerhouse Although the country continues to grow in related technology R&D investment in the LED lighting industry, it is still not enough compared with the R&D expenses of foreign companies.
"The Ministry of Science and Technology spent 50 million yuan on the LED lighting industry during the 10th Five-Year Plan period, and turned it 6 times during the 11th Five-Year Plan period to reach 300 million yuan, while Philips used only 'solid-state lighting' (mainly LED) for one year. The research investment in lighting is up to 40 million euros," Zibo said.
According to the latest industry data, in 2011, the output value of China's LED lighting industry was about 150 billion yuan. From the point of view of output value, it has stepped into a big LED production country. However, Zibo believes that although China's production capacity is large, it does not dominate the global LED lighting industry chain. It is a big country, but it is not a strong country.
"The LED chip mainly relies on imports, and there are few domestically-manufactured chips. There is no high-power (1W and above) chip. The chip lacks its own technology and intellectual property rights. China already has a large-scale LED packaging industry and has relatively good equipment. However, there is still a certain gap between the packaging technology, materials and technology.†Ren Yuanhui, honorary director of the China Lighting Institute's indoor lighting professional committee, told reporters.
He introduced that at present, the key equipment and materials for LED lighting rely heavily on imports, such as MOCVD (Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition), plasma etching machines and other high-tech equipment, and all domestic production lines rely on imports.
Jun Jun told reporters, MOCVD equipment is the key equipment for the production of LED chips, the current global MOCVD equipment is basically monopolized by the German Aixtron, the United States Aisiqiang two companies.
In 2010, it was the severe shortage of MOCVD equipment that caused the price of LED chips, which had fallen more than once, to soar. The price of LED chips suddenly soared, with the maximum increase reaching 50%.
"MOCVD equipment accounts for a large proportion of the total cost, of which the sapphire substrate accounts for about 12% of the total cost. Therefore, the shortage of these important upstream equipment and the increase in raw material prices have directly pushed up the cost of LED chips and epitaxial wafers." Say.
Ren Yuanhui said that the LED chip and wafer manufacturers are overwhelmed, because the upstream equipment and raw materials are monopolized by overseas giants and are in serious shortage. This tightly held back the Chinese LED lighting companies at that time. The pace of expansion.
"A LED manufacturing powerhouse is actually subject to one or two equipment manufacturers and can't do anything about it. This upstream 'rising up' situation is exposing the shortcomings of China's LED lighting industry." Ren Yuanhui said.
He further pointed out that China has not yet formed a complete LED industry chain, developed countries in the LED chip technology to control the right to speak, this situation does not change, China is difficult to become a powerful LED industry.
Technology Vs market upstream Vs downstream "China is now taking the road to market plus technology." Zibo believes that China's LED lighting industry can no longer take the so-called market for technology, which in fact is to give up independent research and development. He believes that China's LED lighting industry should combine independent research and development and introduction of technology. At the same time, huge market and production capacity will attract a large number of companies with core technologies.
Liu Muqing, director of the Institute of Light Sources at the Department of Light Sources and Lighting Engineering at Fudan University, believes that China's LED lighting industry still has its unique advantages in the global industrial chain. “We are not totally without technology. Through years of efforts, we have actually had a large number of patents, but our technology is mainly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches. However, the added value of midstream and downstream products has also increased.†Liu Muqing said that at present, the output value of the middle and lower reaches of the LED lighting industry is much larger than that of the upstream. Of course, the competition is much fiercer. “We are using our huge market and technological advantages in the midstream and downstream to participate in international competition. At present, the upstream and downstream of the LED lighting industry is increasingly reflected in a win-win relationship, and the upstream technology is not all monopolized, which can also contribute to The competition between upstream companies. "The current national industrial policy for LED lighting does reflect this idea. While launching the second pilot project of “Ten Cities and Ten Thousand Citiesâ€, the ten key energy conservation projects such as the green lighting project and the semiconductor lighting project, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued the “National 12th Five-Year Plan for Scientific and Technological Development†(hereinafter referred to as “Planningâ€). ) It also made key deployments for the development of core technologies related to the future LED lighting industry.
If the former is intended to expand the market and expand the LED industry, then "planning" is further technological breakthroughs.
"Planning" has listed semiconductor lighting as the key technology development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries. In the next five years, it will focus on the development of independent key technologies such as LED preparation, light source system integration, and devices, to realize the localization of large-scale MOCVD equipment and key supporting materials. It is understood that at present, some domestic companies, such as Tianlong Optoelectronics, have started testing MOCVD domestically.
Zibo told reporters that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Science and Technology will provide support for the technical development of the LED lighting industry through the "863 Program," the "973 Program," and the "National Support Science and Technology Program." “These three programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology have all mentioned technical support for LEDs, which is unprecedented.
When Zhang Tieyong, the deputy general manager of Shenzhen Jinyoutian Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. learned that the company had been listed in the “337 investigation†of the companies involved, the first reaction was a surprise. He had never heard anything called "337" before.
Unlike Jin Youtian, who was accidentally “invitedâ€, several large companies surveyed at the same time were no strangers to “337 investigationâ€. As early as 2008, the United States had conducted investigations on four patented led lighting companies in China.
The continuous investigation of patent infringement of China’s LED lighting companies by the United States reflects China’s shortcomings and constraints on LED technology, and reflects China’s extremely tough technical road from the LED industry.
10 years behind the "technology" is not as good as people in the early 90s of the last century, Japan after the study of blue LED, soon resolved the white LED, making LED lighting possible. After the advent of white LEDs, they have developed rapidly. Over the past 10 years, the luminous efficiency of white LEDs has increased by nearly 10 times. LEDs have begun to enter the lighting field as a new type of solid-state light source (SSL), and a number of powerful LEDs have been established in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Lighting companies have risen one after another.
10 years later, in June 2003, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Education, the former Ministry of Construction, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Light Industry Federation, established the National Semiconductor Lighting Project Coordination Leading Group to launch the National Semiconductor Lighting Project. In the same year, National Semiconductor Lighting was established. Engineering R & D and Industry Alliance. As a symbol of this, China's LED lighting industry has started.
"Our LED lighting industry is 10 years behind the world. In the late 1990s, Japan's LED lighting industry has already achieved industrialization." Jun Jun, Deputy Secretary General of National Semiconductor Lighting Engineering R&D and Industry Alliance, told reporters .
Beijing Semiconductor Lighting Technology Center Secretary-General, Zibo told reporters that although China's LED lighting industry has made considerable progress, but the status quo in the master core technology is still not optimistic, the relevant core intellectual property rights are basically in the hands of foreign manufacturers .
"From the perspective of the world-wide development of GaN-based LED industry, the top five companies - US Cree, Osram Germany, Philips Philips, Nichia Japan and Toyota Synthetics have 80% - 90% of original invention patents." Bo introduced.
According to Qi Jun, at present, GaN-based LED lighting products account for more than 80% of all LED products, and its core technology is mainly focused on the formation of GaN-based epitaxial wafers. "There are about 1,000 patents on this technology, which are basically in the hands of Japanese companies. Our company only has a handful of patents on the edge."
The "weak and small" LED industry powerhouse Although the country continues to grow in related technology R&D investment in the LED lighting industry, it is still not enough compared with the R&D expenses of foreign companies.
"The Ministry of Science and Technology spent 50 million yuan on the LED lighting industry during the 10th Five-Year Plan period, and turned it 6 times during the 11th Five-Year Plan period to reach 300 million yuan, while Philips used only 'solid-state lighting' (mainly LED) for one year. The research investment in lighting is up to 40 million euros," Zibo said.
According to the latest industry data, in 2011, the output value of China's LED lighting industry was about 150 billion yuan. From the point of view of output value, it has stepped into a big LED production country. However, Zibo believes that although China's production capacity is large, it does not dominate the global LED lighting industry chain. It is a big country, but it is not a strong country.
"The LED chip mainly relies on imports, and there are few domestically-manufactured chips. There is no high-power (1W and above) chip. The chip lacks its own technology and intellectual property rights. China already has a large-scale LED packaging industry and has relatively good equipment. However, there is still a certain gap between the packaging technology, materials and technology.†Ren Yuanhui, honorary director of the China Lighting Institute's indoor lighting professional committee, told reporters.
He introduced that at present, the key equipment and materials for LED lighting rely heavily on imports, such as MOCVD (Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition), plasma etching machines and other high-tech equipment, and all domestic production lines rely on imports.
Jun Jun told reporters, MOCVD equipment is the key equipment for the production of LED chips, the current global MOCVD equipment is basically monopolized by the German Aixtron, the United States Aisiqiang two companies.
In 2010, it was the severe shortage of MOCVD equipment that caused the price of LED chips, which had fallen more than once, to soar. The price of LED chips suddenly soared, with the maximum increase reaching 50%.
"MOCVD equipment accounts for a large proportion of the total cost, of which the sapphire substrate accounts for about 12% of the total cost. Therefore, the shortage of these important upstream equipment and the increase in raw material prices have directly pushed up the cost of LED chips and epitaxial wafers." Say.
Ren Yuanhui said that the LED chip and wafer manufacturers are overwhelmed, because the upstream equipment and raw materials are monopolized by overseas giants and are in serious shortage. This tightly held back the Chinese LED lighting companies at that time. The pace of expansion.
"A LED manufacturing powerhouse is actually subject to one or two equipment manufacturers and can't do anything about it. This upstream 'rising up' situation is exposing the shortcomings of China's LED lighting industry." Ren Yuanhui said.
He further pointed out that China has not yet formed a complete LED industry chain, developed countries in the LED chip technology to control the right to speak, this situation does not change, China is difficult to become a powerful LED industry.
Technology Vs market upstream Vs downstream "China is now taking the road to market plus technology." Zibo believes that China's LED lighting industry can no longer take the so-called market for technology, which in fact is to give up independent research and development. He believes that China's LED lighting industry should combine independent research and development and introduction of technology. At the same time, huge market and production capacity will attract a large number of companies with core technologies.
Liu Muqing, director of the Institute of Light Sources at the Department of Light Sources and Lighting Engineering at Fudan University, believes that China's LED lighting industry still has its unique advantages in the global industrial chain. “We are not totally without technology. Through years of efforts, we have actually had a large number of patents, but our technology is mainly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches. However, the added value of midstream and downstream products has also increased.†Liu Muqing said that at present, the output value of the middle and lower reaches of the LED lighting industry is much larger than that of the upstream. Of course, the competition is much fiercer. “We are using our huge market and technological advantages in the midstream and downstream to participate in international competition. At present, the upstream and downstream of the LED lighting industry is increasingly reflected in a win-win relationship, and the upstream technology is not all monopolized, which can also contribute to The competition between upstream companies. "The current national industrial policy for LED lighting does reflect this idea. While launching the second pilot project of “Ten Cities and Ten Thousand Citiesâ€, the ten key energy conservation projects such as the green lighting project and the semiconductor lighting project, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued the “National 12th Five-Year Plan for Scientific and Technological Development†(hereinafter referred to as “Planningâ€). ) It also made key deployments for the development of core technologies related to the future LED lighting industry.
If the former is intended to expand the market and expand the LED industry, then "planning" is further technological breakthroughs.
"Planning" has listed semiconductor lighting as the key technology development of energy-saving and environmental protection industries. In the next five years, it will focus on the development of independent key technologies such as LED preparation, light source system integration, and devices, to realize the localization of large-scale MOCVD equipment and key supporting materials. It is understood that at present, some domestic companies, such as Tianlong Optoelectronics, have started testing MOCVD domestically.
Zibo told reporters that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Science and Technology will provide support for the technical development of the LED lighting industry through the "863 Program," the "973 Program," and the "National Support Science and Technology Program." “These three programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology have all mentioned technical support for LEDs, which is unprecedented.
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