Japanese by Taiwan and South Korea capacity growth pressure to switch to small size panel

According to Taiwan media reports, South Korea and Taiwan manufacturers to actively increase production capacity, resulting in increased market supply panel, resulting in LCD panel prices fell nearly 50% last year. In South Korea and Taiwan manufacturers under the pressure of competition, Japanese manufacturers actively adjust the industrial layout, recently started using LCD PC generally reduce panel production capacity and the small size panel production capacity to Japanese manufacturers more competitive.

In this situation, MITSUBISHI Electronics (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.) is expected to exit the PC LCD market in 2008 last year, MITSUBISHI PC LCD panel panel occupy the 15% of sales, but this proportion will be reduced to 10% in 4~9 months of this year. While Hitachi's HITACHI subsidiary DISPLAYS LTD. will begin to increase production capacity of small size panel, mainly for mobile phone market. Toshiba subsidiary TOSHIBA MATSUSHITA TECHNOLOGY CO. also plans to gradually reduce the proportion of PC with LCD panel from 30% to 15% by DISPLAY. Although the Japanese manufacturers actively adjust the industrial layout, but Japanese panel manufacturers in the global industry occupies the proportion has gradually decreased, the market research company DISPLAYSEARCH pointed out that in 2000 when Japan's panel manufacturers occupy nearly half of the global panel market share, but in this year than expected weight reduced to 15%, less than 20%.