Taiwan’s digital camera manufacturing sector was unable to weather seasonal effects in the second quarter, despite the considerable volume brought by orders from Casio and Nikon. The situation was not helped by the fact that there was little growth in demand from other major clients, such as Kodak, whose orders had been the chief growth driver of Taiwan’s digital camera sector last year. In the second quarter of 2006, Taiwan’s digital camera shipments grew only 13.5% on-year to 8.4 million units, far lower than the 40% on-year growth fo...
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Chart 6: Detailed breakdown of CCD-based shipments of 6-megapixel resolution or greater, 1Q06-3Q06
Chart 8: Digital camera shipments by production mode, 2Q05-2Q06
Chart 9: Production mode for CCD-based digital cameras, 2Q05-2Q06
Chart 10: Production mode for CMOS-based digital cameras, 2Q05-2Q06
Chart 14: Top makers’ proportion of the CMOS segment, 2Q05-2Q06
Chart 15: Proportion of top-2 makers’ shipments to first-tier vendors, 2Q05-2Q06
Chart 16: Pocket DV camcorder shipments, 2Q05-3Q06 (k units)
Chart 17: Major digital camera makers’ market share, 2005-2006
Table 1: Outsourcing by major digital camera vendors to Taiwan-based makers, 2006
Chart 18: Worldwide and Taiwan shipments, 2004-2008 (k units)
