LED PREDICTIONS

[Chuckt]

LEDS will account of 50% of lighting by 2016 and prices will drop 90% in four years.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articl ... y-2015.htm

[brad]

I have to say I agree with that.

I may have posted this before, but I know a guy who used to own an LED business in china. It cost them 2cents to make 100 LED's

[Chuckt]

I agree too that it could happen but I started to think.

There was a prediction that flash memory could become cheap and the reasons why it didn't happen aren't answered. I believe that because of high gas prices, companies won't lower their prices. Unless there is competition, there won't be lower prices. A lot of things are made in China. I'm not sure but would China compete with themselves?

[brad]

Some very good comments!

However, harddrives these days still use the same basic principals as drives used decades ago. The price has come down a considerable amount, just check out this as