According to the latest survey by WitsView, the display division of the global intelligence provider TrendForce, the large-sized panel shipment in December 2013 reached 73.71 million units, declining 4% MoM. WitsView projects panel shipment of all application will weaken in January with a 10-11% drop in the overall large-sized panel shipment. The TV panel will decline 10%, monitor and NB panel shipment will trim 14% and 11%, and tablet panel shipment will decrease 10%.
According to WitsView, the display research division of the global market intelligence provider TrendForce, the 4K TV panel shipment attained the peak in Q4 last year, reaching 1.34 million units and growing 14% QoQ as it was lifted by the year-end shopping season and the restocking demand for the Lunar New Year holidays, Chinese brands’ aggressive procurement and panel makers’ strong promotion.
According to the survey by WitsView, the display research division of the global intelligence provider TrendForce,the 2013 LCD monitor shipment including AIO is around 158 million units, dipping 5% YoY. The declining trend will continue in 2014 with a shipment of 150 million units, dropping 5.1% YoY. Among those, the LCD monitor shipment is around 134 million units, declining 6.3% YoY, and the AIO shipment is 16 million units, surging 6.7% YoY. What needs to be observed is panel makers turn aggressive on the wide-viewing-angle panel production, and the wide-viewing-angle shows a penetration rate as high as 30% of the LCD monitors in 2014.
2013 is undoubtedly a sluggish year for the NB industry. According to the survey by WitsView, the display division of the global intelligence provider TrendForce, the global NB shipment for entire 2013 is around 167 million units, dipping 10% YoY, as the impacts brought by the touch function test the compatibility between software and hardware as well as consumers’ using habit, in addition to the global economic downturn. 2014 is projected to see constant NB shipment declines, but the decrease can narrow to 1-2%. WitsView analyst Caroline Chen emphasizes on several points to be observed as below:
Based on the survey on the global large-sized TFT-LCD capacity by WitsView, the display division of the global intelligence provider TrendForce, as there is no large global capacity expansion in 2013 and the demand for IT products is weak, panel makers shift some of the Gen5 and Gen6 capacities to high-end products, including wide viewing angle and LTPS, and to the productions of mid-and small- sized panels and touch sensors.
