Smartphone shipments to the China market in first-quarter 2020 plunged 51.9% from the prior quarter to reach the lowest single-quarter shipment volumes in recent years, as the market was influenced by slow season and the coronavirus outbreak.

According to Digitimes Research's statistics and analyses, first-quarter 2020 global server shipments are estimated to come to 3.65 million units, representing a 16.9% on-quarter drop.

Global notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2020 dropped 27.6% on quarter and 10.9% on year. The yearly decline was the worst for the Taiwan's notebook industry since first-quarter 2016.

Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments went down slightly on quarter, but more than 5% on year to arrive at 59.12 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Smartphone AP shipments to China-based vendors came to 197 million units, down 5.9% on year and 7.7% on quarter.

The tablet sector is witnessing better capacity recovery than the notebook and handset sectors.

The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in labor shortage and shipment disruption in China's supply chain.

The fourth quarter of 2019 was a traditional slow season for the small- to medium-size panel industry, but Taiwan's shipments still grew 16.6% sequentially in the quarter thanks to strong short lead-time orders for feature phone panels and Huawei's aggressive...

Global tablet shipments amounted to 43.23 million units in fourth-quarter 2019 as white-box vendors had excess inventory, causing their shipments for the quarter to weaken, while brand vendors saw the momentum from the third quarter continue into fourth-quarter...

Because of seasonal pickup in demand, Taiwan's TV shipments grew 14.7% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019, but still slipped 12.6% on year.

Taiwan's notebook shipments slipped 4.4% sequentially, but grew 3.1% on year to arrive at 32.37 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Global server shipments went up 13.4% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019 thanks to rising demand from US large datacenter companies and China's server market. However, shipments in the first quarter of 2020 are expected to be affected by China's coronavirus...