LEDs have exploded onto the world market. They took center stage at Beijings Summer Olympics, with nearly a million LEDs illuminating the National Stadium and the Water Cube, and they have begun to provide the glow for LCD displays from televisions to notebook PCs.

The LED industry continues to grow at 10-15% and is expected to climb as high as $7 billion by 2010. This performance has been fueled by increased adoption of LEDs in several strategic end-use markets including camera flash, projection displays, LCD backlighting and automotive headlamps. Focusing specifically on the LED industry in Asia, We will seek to highlight the key drivers of Asias impressive growth in the LED market while also outlining what must be done to sustain this level of performance in the future.