Compared with the 10s, China-made LEDs have gradually entered the international market in the past decade, and have reached world standards in terms of performance. This means that the advantage of Taiwan-made LEDs in the world market has diminished. But it doesn’t mean that Taiwan’s LED industry has declined.
The advantage of China-made LEDs is that it can use large spaces and a large amount of manpower to implement mass manufacturing and production that cannot be compared to Taiwan. Resulting low cost and price. But on the contrary, if you encounter a small amount of LEDs with special specifications, the impact on production capacity due to suspension and changes in production line settings will become too large to bear due to the scale. Naturally, there is room for Taiwan to spread its wings.
The opposite of mass production is small-volume, customized production.
Of course, the Mainland LEDs also provide customized services, but in the end they cannot compete with Taiwan in this field. Although mainland China can now provide inventory of specific specification ranges, in the environment of mass production of LEDs, it will become difficult to implement “small quantities”.
Because the production scale is too large, the change of production settings becomes an action that does not conform to the concept of cost. At this time, Taiwan’s LED industry, whose production line scale is lower than the mainland’s average, has become an advantage in obtaining this market first and gaining a foothold in the LED industry. When responding to the demand for various types of custom-made LED products, Taiwan’s LED industry, which has a relatively small average production line, is relatively able to meet the needs of outsourced R&D, trial production, and small-scale production such as OEＭ/ODM.
Especially cutting-edge products, such as MIRCO-LED, MINI-LED and other products whose demand has gradually increased in recent years. Since product specifications have not yet produced mainstream specifications in the industry, products will remain differentiated according to different application fields and methods of various manufacturers. At this time, Taiwan’s environment is more able to respond to the needs of small-volume multiple production, sample samples, etc., and it is able to enter the new market earlier than mainland manufacturers, which is the advantage of Taiwan’s LED market.