Lighting is the chip of the future.

Light-emitting diode (LED) ─ ─ small, embedded in the LED chip body, has been used only for audio or power indicator light coffee machine. Now, it is expanding the scope of application, is changing the pattern of the global lighting industry, no less than cents after the Second World War and other inflatable neon bulb the impact of the invention.

The rise of LED lighting industry for the three major multinational corporations have brought many new opportunities and challenges, they are Royal Philips Electronics NV (Philips Electronics NV), Osram GmbH and General Electric (General Electric Co.) . More than a century, lighting bulbs forward every step of the development of these companies and ultimately figure.

Traditional light bulb is put in a vacuum tube filament of an electric. The LED is a block of semiconductor chips, will be a light-emitting electricity. Color of light depends on the piece of metal used in the chip. And the same computer chip, LED can also be very small, and some only cover such a big nail. Through software programming, it can also control the light-emitting time, soccer field where the great flash player screen information is used by this technology.

It is this flexibility to promote the first LED light bulbs into the general field of impotence. Now, a breakdown in some of the lighting market, LED's are becoming more common figure.

This is because the LED power consumption is lower than many other types of lamps, lamp life is also longer than most ─ ─ can be approximately ten years. In addition, like other types of chip manufacturers in the material and technological progress to continue to decline in chip cost, performance improved.

U.S. LED industry market research firm Strategies Unlimited analyst Robert Steele said that we will be open and innovative new ideas for the lighting.

At present, LED is the most widely used mobile phone keypad and LCD display with background light. Second, for the automotive, lighting and new traffic lights. It is estimated that this year, all kinds of new products used in high-brightness LED sales will be from 4 to 5 billion US dollars, to become 26 billion U.S. dollars worth of lighting the giant an important part of the industry. With the LED in the TV and even some home appliances continued to promote the use of the area is expected before the LED sales in 2010 will increase to 10 billion U.S. dollars.

Ford (Ford Motor Co.) Launched the new Mustangs on the use of the LED panel, a total of more than 100 kinds of colors for customers to select. The Boeing Company (Boeing Co.) Is also prepared in the new 787 Dreamliner (Dreamliner) to use the interior LED, lighting to create an enabling environment to help those long-distance cross-border passenger flight to better adjust the time difference. In some fast-growing Chinese cities, traffic lights are no longer the traditional red, yellow, and green flashes followed by three light bulbs, but LED installation by a different color depending on the circumstances of transformation.