The notebook market will face unfavorable conditions in 2019 on both the supply side and demand side. Total shipments may dip further below the level seen in 2018.

According to Digitimes Research statistics, as large-size smartphones continue to erode sales of 9-inch and smaller tablets, especially white-box tablets that are generally smaller, global tablet shipments will further slide.

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.