In the second quarter this year, downstream demand was not as strong as expected and a price war was introduced by Sony in the North America market, as the vendor looked to gain market...
Shrinking demand from China's whitebox handset market and a weakening global economy resulted in a sequential decline in second-quarter shipments for the first time since 2002. Shipments...
Early in the second quarter demand continued with the strong momentum built up from the first quarter when clients stocked up their inventories in anticipation of sharp increases...
Shipments saw a slight sequential drop in the first quarter; but on an on-year basis, growth was still significant. The snowstorms and inventory issues in the retail channel in China...
The impact of the snowstorms in China during the first quarter on the country's white box handset markets was milder than expected. In turn, Taiwan's small- to medium-size LCD panel...
Demand for LCD TVs from Taiwan makers dipped 7% in the first quarter due to a seasonal downturn worldwide. The sluggishness was more strongly felt in Europe and the US, as the subprime...
Clients' inventory from the sluggish fourth quarter of 2007, coupled with the coming of the low season, further drove down Taiwan's LCD monitor shipments in the first quarter of 2008...
Taiwan shipped 31.8 million LCD monitors in the fourth quarter of 2007, down 4.5% sequentially but up 9.4% from the same period one year earlier. LCD monitor shipments will fall 5.5%...
Taiwan shipped 4.8 million LCD TVs in the fourth quarter of 2007, up 15.3% sequentially and 47.2% from the same period one year earlier. LCD TV shipments will fall 7.8% in the first...
In the fourth quarter of 2007, Taiwan's large-size panel shipments to the monitor segment were slower than expected amid seasonality. But shipments to the TV and notebook segments...
Shipments of small- to medium-size panels were strong in the fourth quarter, as a result of the delivery fulfillment of orders that had been delayed by tight capacity in third quarter...
Despite retail prices for most LCD TV segments falling in the third quarter, prices in the 32-inch segment rose, somewhat constraining demand, so overall shipments of 3.9 million...
Taiwan shipped 130.0 million small- to mid-size panels in the third quarter of 2007, driven by demand for handset panels from Top-10 vendors and white-box vendors in China.
Shipments of Taiwan large-size LCD panels grew 33% on year and 15% on quarter to 51.01 million units in the third quarter of 2007. The on-year growth in the third quarter was lower...
