Taiwan's TV shipments went down 34.2% sequentially to reach only 6.26 million units, due to seasonal factors and shortages of driver ICs, SoCs and panels.
Taiwan's PC monitor shipments in the first quarter of 2021 went down 9.4% sequentially, but up 25.7% on year, due to a weak comparison base in the same quarter a year ago, when the coronavirus pandemic started raging in China.
Taiwan shipped a total of 72.25 million large-size LCD panels in the first quarter of 2021, down only 3.4% sequentially, despite the quarter being a slow season.
Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments only went down 2.4% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, thanks mainly to better-than-expected smartphone panel demand, despite seasonal factors and fewer working hours as a result of the Lunar New Year holidays.
First-quarter 2021 smartphone AP shipments to China-based vendors amounted to 212 million units, maintaining a similar level to the prior quarter and soaring 56.9% from a year ago.
First-quarter 2021 smartphone shipments to the China market amounted to 94.6 million units. The volume represented a growth of 9% quarter-over-quarter and an upsurge of 99.6% year-over-year due to a low base period in the corresponding period of 2020.
Global notebook shipments not including devices with detachable keyboards went down only 8.7% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021 as demand for education and gaming models remained robust and previously unfulfilled orders were delivered.
Taiwan's small- to medium-size LCD panel shipments plunged 25.3% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2020 due to a significant drop in orders from Huawei.
