Three current trends driving optoelectronics market growth

Through 2019, IC Insights sees these three trends driving optoelectronics market growth:

High-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) have reached the luminous efficacy of fluorescent lights and are in a position to be a major factor in the $100bn global lighting industry. Since the end of the last decade, strong sales of HB-LEDs have gone into backlighting systems for cellphones, tablets, LCD TVs, and computer displays, but this growth has greatly eased with penetration rates reaching nearly 100% in these applications. With production capacity growing, HB-LED suppliers are concentrating on cutting costs and improving the overall quality of light for general illumination products in homes, businesses, buildings, outdoor lighting, and other applications, such as automotive headlamps and digital signs.

HB-LED 2014 -2019 CAGR forecast (sales):  9.7%.

CMOS image sensors have entered into another wave of strong sales growth as digital imaging moves into automotive-safety systems, medical equipment, video security and surveillance networks, human-recognition UIs, wearable body cameras, and other embedded applications beyond camera phones and stand-alone digital cameras.

CMOS image sensor 2014-2019 CAGR forecast (sales):  11.1%.

Fibre-optic laser transmitters will continue to be the fastest growing optoelectronics product category as network operators struggle to keep up with huge increases in Internet traffic, video streaming and downloads, cloud-computing services, and the potential for billions of new connections in the IoT.

Laser transmitter 2014-2019 CAGR forecast (sales):  15.3%.

A snapshot of the optoelectronics market, based on % market share and forecast 2014-19 CAGR.

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