In line with current key issues in the industry, the four-day event will feature five theme pavilions, several industry forums, TechSTAGE and academic paper presentations. The Taiwan International Lighting Show (TiLS) will also be held during the same period of time. With 748 booths from 238 exhibitors to fully demonstrate the local LED supply chains’ R&D capabilities, the exhibition is expected to attract over 16,000 visitors from Taiwan and abroad.

Research firm Strategies Unlimited estimated that the global LED packaging market took in US$15.6 billion of revenue in 2014. The market is expected to grow to US$22 billion by 2019, with 45% of which coming from lighting applications. However, as the prices of white LEDs continue to fall, new types of specific applications are regarded as the key to higher earnings.

The prospects of niche-market applications like IR LED and UV LED look good. Meanwhile, LED lights for cars may become another blue-ocean market with greater demand for high power chips.

In order to satisfy the market’s demand for LED in an era of IoT, LED Taiwan 2016 will add three new pavilions— “LED Components”, “Smart Lighting Technology” and “Power Device”— to the existing ones for the “High-Brightness LED” and “Sapphire” segments.

Leading players in the areas of LED equipments, materials, components and packaging like Aurora Optoelectronics, Cree, Epileds, GlobalWafers, Han’s Laser, Lextar, an alliance of sapphire processing companies organized by the Metal Industries Research & Development Centre, Rapitech, Rubicon and Wei Min Industrial will all showcase their products in the exhibition to help local and foreign visitors understand the structure, manufacturing processes and technologies of Taiwan’s LED industry.

To enable innovation and bring more energy to the local LED industry, TechSTAGE will be held as part of this year’s LED Taiwan event, showcasing Taiwan’s LED R&D capability in the areas of “LED

Manufacturing Equipment & Materials”, “Power Device Technology”, “Sapphire Processing Technology & Application”, “LED Advanced Technologies”, and “Smart Lighting & Automobile Lighting”.