Taiwan's monitor shipments grew 5% on year to reach 21.03 million units in the second quarter of 2018.

Taiwan handset shipments increased 16.1% sequentially and 0.3% on year to arrive at 20.66 million units in the second quarter.

Taiwan makers shipped a total of 7.65 million LCD TVs in the second quarter of 2018, up 15.9% sequentially and 6.5% on year.

Taiwan's small-to-medium-size panel shipments grew 5.2% sequentially in the second quarter of 2018.

Taiwan's large-size panel shipments performed better than expected reaching 62.03 million units in the second quarter of 2018, up 5.5% sequentially and 5.9% on year.

Global tablet shipments arrived at 37.08 million units in second-quarter 2018, up 13.6% on quarter and 11% on year.

With smartphone vendors putting in aggressive efforts toward second-half sales in an attempt to reach their whole-year objectives, smartphone AP shipments will likely benefit from high season effects in the third quarter.

Taiwan's notebook shipments performed better than expected in the second quarter of 2018, increasing 11.4% sequentially and down only 3.3% on year.

Worldwide server shipments arrived at 3.84 million units in the second quarter of 2018, better than originally estimated, with a sequential increase of 9.6%.

Shipments to the China market rebounded to a level above 90 million units in second-quarter 2018, with an on-quarter growth nearing 10%, according to Digitimes Research statistics.

Digitimes Research estimates the number of 5G users will reach 1.14 billion by 2025 to account for 13.4% of all mobile service subscribers.

Taiwan's handset shipments decreased 27.8% sequentially, but went up 17.5% on year to arrive at 17.8 million units in the first quarter of 2018. The sequential decline was mainly due to seasonality.