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Although the fourth quarter is the traditional slow season for small- to medium-size panels, Taiwan still saw a 20% sequential increase in small- to medium-size panel shipments to 72.83 million units, in the fourth quarter of 2006, thanks to better-than-expected handset-use panel demand. The growth was much stronger than the 3.2% growth seen during the same period in 2005 and the 1.7% reduction during the same period of 2004.Table of contents
Chart 1: Shipment trend and forecast, 3Q05-1Q07 (thousand units)
Chart 2: Shipments by application, 3Q05-1Q07 (thousand units)
Chart 5: Handset-use TFT LCD shipment share by technology, 3Q05-1Q07
Chart 6: DSC-use TFT LCD shipment share by technology, 1Q06-1Q07
Chart 8: Shipments and Taiwan’s market share, 2004-2009 (thousand units)
Taiwan aggressive in handset-use panel capacity expansion, but South Korea also competes
Chart 12: Shipments and Taiwan’s market share, 2004-2009 (thousand units)