According to WitsView, the average price of mainstream 27-inch monitors and 14-inch laptops also continued to rise, rising by $1 to $87.7 and $37.9, extending the increase since June of last year.
Panel industry last year in the distance driven by business opportunities, the bottom of the operation turned over, TV, laptop, tablet and other panel prices rise together, and demand is short of supply so far, the operation of the panel factory gradually turned good, statistics in the first quarter of the overall panel price increase of about 15-20%, panel factory a quarter will make billions of dollars.
Looking forward to the current quarter, the market believes that the panel components continue to be tight, and Corning (GLW-US) recently announced the effect of raising the price of glass substrate fermentation, the panel rise is expected to continue, estimated to maintain a 10-20% increase.
Both panel and tiger are optimistic about the economic outlook this year, the visibility of orders can be seen as far as the end of the year, short-term panel driver IC, glass substrate, polarizer and other components are still difficult to solve the tight situation, will continue to contact with the supply chain, and strive to stabilize the supply.
On the other hand, the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs also announced the output value statistics of the panel industry, benefiting from the hot demand for panels and IT panels, the output value of the panel industry reached 727.5 billion yuan last year, with an annual increase of 0.3%, ending the record of negative growth for two consecutive years.
