LED and other LED epitaxial Taiwanese companies consider raising the price of LED chips

August 26, 2022

Due to the large-scale expansion of various manufacturers in the LED industry, there has been a price increase in the supply of raw materials, including upstream sapphire substrates, epitaxial gases, LED epitaxy, and LED chips. LED epitaxial plant may be the manufacturer of action due to this price increase, including crystal power, round, wide gallium, new century, Thai Valley and so on.

Zhang Shixian, deputy general manager and spokesperson of LED faucet factory, pointed out that the average price of LED epitaxial upstream such as sapphire substrate Q2 is about 20%, and the price of special gas is also rising, although the proportion of cost is not very high, but already with customers. Discuss issues related to price increases.

Chen Jincai, chairman of Guangguang Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. also said that the company has first raised prices for international customers, and domestic customers are still communicating. Affected by the shortage of raw materials, international giants such as Seoul Semiconductor have agreed to increase the price, and the price of LED chips sold by Guangjia to Seoul Semiconductor has increased by 5%~10%.

If the LED chip price increases, will the downstream LED package and application products rise? This is the next observation focus, but industry insiders revealed that due to the large number of LED downstream competitors, the probability of price increases in the short term is not high, and limited by the expansion of the market, the downstream industry that will really go up the price should not be too much.