
Taiwan's display system makers - Jun 2006
Last update: Friday 29 July 2005
Taiwan-based display makers come from a variety of areas in the IT industry, from Compal, which is best known for producing notebooks, to Premier, which also produces digital cameras...
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Table of contentsTable 1: Taiwan IT manufacturers*, LCD TV plans (thousand units)*
Table 2: Taiwan home appliance manufacturers, LCD TV plans (thousand units)*
Chart 1: Amtran Technology display product shipments, 2005 (units)
Table 5: BenQ quarterly sales proportion breakdown by business, 2005
Table 7: Compal Electronics monitor and flat panel TV shipments, 2005-2006 (million units)
Chart 2: Compal Electronics LCD monitor and CRT montior shipments, 2005 (thousand units)
Table 8: Coretronic monthly projector capacity, 2005-2006 (thousand units)
Table 12: Jean LCD-related product shipment forecast, 2006 (million units)
Table 13: Lite-On Technology LCD monitor shipments, 2004-2006 (million units)
Chart 3: Lite-On Technology LCD monitor quarterly shipments, 2005 (million units)
Chart 4: Lite-On Technology LCD monitor shipmnets breakdown by size, 2005
Chart 5: Lite-On Technology sales proportion breakdown, 2005 (1Q-3Q)
Chart 6: Proview monitor and TV shipments, 2005-2007 (million units)
Table 15: Proview product line and sales proportion breakdown
Chart 7: TPV Technology display products shipments, 2004-2005 (million units)
Table 16: TPV, sale breakdown by branded and ODM business, 2005

Large-size LCD panel overview - Jun 2006
Last update: Friday 1 September 2006
The global large-size TFT LCD industry reached around 210 million units in 2005 and will grow around 24% in both 2006 and 2007 to 259 million and 322 million, respectively, according...
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Table of contentsTable1: Global large-size TFT LCD shipments, 2005-2007 (thousand units)
Chart 1: Global large-size TFT LCD shipment breakdown by application
Table 2: Global large-size TFT LCD supply/demand forecast (thousand units)
Table 5: New LCD plants from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea in 2006
Table 8: Taiwan TFT LCD panel makers, panel volume production plan
Table 9: AUO and QDI - TFT LCD plants line-up with new names
Table 10: CMO - TFT LCD plants line-up and capacity expansion plan through 2007 (thousand unit)
Table 11: AUO - TFT LCD plants line-up and capacity expansion plan through 2006 (thousand units)
Table 12: Taiwan TFT LCD producers, capex through 2006 (NT$b)
Table 13: Taiwan TFT LCD makers, consolidates sales and shipments, 2005 (NT$m / thousand units)
Chart 2: Taiwan TFT LCD makers, monthly consolidated sales, 2005 (NT$m)
Chart 3: Taiwan TFT LCD makers, monthly shipments, 2005 (thousand units)

Taiwan panel makers - Jun 2006
Last update: Friday 1 September 2006
As of May 2006, the major Taiwan-based large-size TFT LCD industry players are AU Optronics (AUO), Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Quanta Display (QDI)...
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Table of contentsChart 2: AUO, consolidated sales breakdown by application, 2005
Chart 3: CMO, unconsolidated sales breakdown by application, 2005
Table 7: CMO, TFT LCD plants line-up and capacity expansion plan through 2007* (thousand substrates)
Chart 4: CPT, TFT LCD shipment breakdown by application, 2005
Table 15: CPT, TFT LCD plant line-up and capacity expansion plan through 2007 (thousand substrates)
Table 19: HannStar, TFT LCD plant line-up (thousand substrates)
Table 22: Innolux Display, TFT LCD plants (thousand substrates)
Table 23: Innolux, sales breakdown by product type, 2005 (NT$m)

Taiwan DRAM-module industry overview - Jun 2006
Last update: Friday 1 September 2006
While Taiwan's IT industry dominates the global motherboard and ODM notebook businesses, its position as a global center for DRAM-module production is less sure. DRAM-module production...
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- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
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- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
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- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
















