Global panel and components: Since 2015, product portfolio has trended to diversified, high unit price commodities. Production diversity and flexible response ability determines success in market. Capacity scale and output value may not be necessary indices for evaluating operation ability.
Taiwan’s panels and components: Transition continues in order to improve entire profit
I. Industry Categories
II. 2015 Industry Review
III. Trend of Emerging Product Technology: Development of new applications for vehicle and printed electronics technology will be focus in the future
IV. Change of our national competitiveness: Taiwan’s strength lies in political assistance, together with operation performance and technical abilities that on par with Japan and Korea. However, it intrinsically lacks market, which must be compensated by relying on overseas market operation.
V. 2016 Industry Outlook
Figure 1. Radar Chart for Overall Competitiveness of TFT LCD Industry of Our Country and Other Major Countries
Table 1. Categories of flat display panel industry (by technology)
Table 2. The trend of output value of global flat panel displays, 2014-2018
Table 3. Trend in global flat panel display key components’ production, 2014-2018
Table 4. The trend in output value of Taiwan's flat panel displays, 2014-2018
Table 5. The production trend of key components of Taiwan's flat panel displays, 2014-2018