According to the survey by WitsView, the display research division of the global intelligence provider TrendForce, as LCD monitor brands boosted shipment in Q4’13 and lifted the inventory level at the retailer end, and the procurement momentum was impacted on some brands’ advanced pull-in at the end of last year before the Lunar New Year labor shortage, the SI makers’ January shipment declined 10.3% MoM and dropped sharply 13.1% YoY and one of them saw the panel inventory higher than four weeks because of the sudden drop in brands’ procurement.
Global 40W equiv. LED bulb ASP rose slightly by 0.5 percent to US $15.3 (NT $463.7), with price rise most evident in Japan, according to LEDinside, a division of research organization Trendforce’s, latest LED bulb retail findings for Jan. 2014. Conversely, global 60W equiv. LED bulb ASP dipped 0.9 percent to US $21.2. ASP for 40W equiv. and 60W equiv. LED bulbs dropped compared to last year, by 21 percent and 28 percent respectively, according to data by LEDinside. The decreasing LED bulb price trend is anticipated to continue in 2014.
