Taiwan-based manufacturers' revenues generated from server-related businesses including motherboards, complete systems as well as network communication and storage hardware and software are estimated to have grown 7.1% year-over-year to reach NT$1.65 trillion in 2021.

According to Digitimes Research's statistics and analyses, the 2021 global server market has a supply-demand gap as large cloud service operators step up orders to meet the pandemic-driven demand for cloud services, WFH and online services but the IC and component shortage disrupts shipment schedules.

Taiwan's PC monitor shipments increased sequentially as expected in the third quarter, but only went up 4.6%, smaller than the 6% forecasted in August as supply of some components was still tight.

Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments are expected to increase 10.9% sequentially in the third quarter of 2021 due to seasonality.

Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments reached 73.76 million units in the third quarter of 2021, rising 2.5% sequentially.

Global tablet shipments amounted to 35.21 million units in third-quarter 2021.

Third-quarter 2021 smartphone shipments to the China market remained in low gear, coming to only 73.7 million units.

Third-quarter 2021 smartphone application processor (AP) shipments to China-based vendors amounted to 258 million units.

Taiwan's LCD TV shipments increased only 2.9% sequentially to come to 7.37 million units in the third quarter of 2021.

Third-quarter 2021 smartphone shipments by China-based vendors both home and abroad increased from the prior quarter level, amounting to 175 million units.

Third-quarter global server shipments only increased 8.5% from the prior quarter due to some ICs and components being in worse shortage than the others.

Global notebook shipments in the third quarter performed better than expected in July. The volumes rose 3.1% sequentially and reached more than 62 million units, the second highest level ever.