Taiwan shipped 135.6 million small- to medium-size panels in the fourth quarter of 2008, down 21.9% sequentially and down 10.8% from the same period one year earlier.
Unexpectedly-weak demand for large-size applications had resulted in an inventory overhang in the second quarter of 2008. Consequently, large-size panel shipments for the third quarter...
On-year shipment growth was flat in the third quarter, as inventory levels remained high in mature markets and demand decreased in China after the deadly Sichuan earthquake. But clients'...
Taiwan LCD TV shipments still had satisfactory growth in the third quarter, as top maker TPV Technology saw strong shipments to the US retail channels. But in general, the LCD TV...
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...
