International. According to a forecast by Strategies Unlimited , revenue from the LED industry will grow by about 10% in 2011 despite falling prices and reduced demand for LED-backlit TVs. The market will have a slow but finally increase in terms of profits, which will reach US $ 12.3 billion this year according to the report of this firm.
According to the projections of the study, it is expected that in 2014 the highest peak of revenues will be located with US $ 16,200 million, which will later fall to US $ 15,300 million in 2015, the fall in revenues will be temporary, since lighting will be the engine of growth of LEDs in that year.
Other sectors of the LED industry analyzed in the " High-Brightness LED Market Review and Forecast 2011" of Strategies Unlimited were signaling, which in 2010 was US $ 1,100 million and will grow to US $ 1,600 million in 2015.
On the other hand, the growth of the LED automotive sector has remained only at 5%, due to the cooling of the Chinese market and the tsunami effect on the LED supply. Finally, mobile devices were the only ones with negative indicators, since some of them have already reached saturation and subsequent price fall.
