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AUO Nears Kunshan Opening

by Tom Allen

AUO held a ceremony at its G6 (1500×1850 mm) LTPS fab in Kunshan, China, this week to celebrate the first 5.5″ 1920 x 1080 LTPS LCD panel produced there. The Kunshan fab is expected …

Samsung Raising Orders With External Firms

by Tom Allen

China’s Economic Daily News claims that Samsung Electronics is seeking to buy panels from Innolux and AUO. This is due to Samsung Display’s closure of a G7 factory this year, which will lower its …

AU Optronics Result 27/06/2017

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

AU Optronics reported a Q2 2016 net loss of NT$0.80 billion ($24 million). Turnover was NT$ 80.1 billion ($2.5 billion). Sequentially, shipment volume increased 16.5% for large size and 12.6% for small and medium …

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Hannstar Only Panel Maker Showing Annual Rise

by Tom Allen

June revenue figures have now been released by several of Taiwan’s panel makers. AUO was up 2.6% MoM but fell 10.1% YoY, to NT$27.5 billion ($853.8 million). Consolidated revenues for Q2 reached NT$80.1 billion …

AUO is “Cautious” About OLED Investment

by Tom Allen

AUO chairman and CEO Paul Peng has said that the company will take a “cautious” attitude to OLED investment. Peng does not think that OLED panels will replace LCD products in the short-term (two-to-three …

Revenues Fall for Taiwanese Makers

by Tom Allen

AUO‘s consolidated revenues in May rose 3.8% MoM, but fell 14.1% YoY, to NT$26.8 billion ($830 million). The firm made NT$123.7 billion ($3.8 billion) in the January-May period, falling 21.2% YoY. AUO shipped 9.5 …

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Large LCD Shipments Fall, but Area is Rising

by Tom Allen

Shipment area of large (9″+) TFT-LCD displays will rise 5% YoY in 2016, despite unit shipment declines, says IHS. Total area shipped this year will reach 168 million m². LG Display will lead the …

AUO Aims at 30% Thin Bezel and Curved Market Share

by Tom Allen

AUO has begun production of flat, ‘bezel-less’ TV panels, and is aiming to take a global market share of 30%. Shipments are expected to pass 1.5 million units this year. The company has also …

Low April for Taiwanese Makers

by Tom Allen

AUO‘s revenues were down 15.5% YoY, to NT$25.8 billion ($796.6 million). Large-size (10″+) panel shipments fell 6.4% MoM to 8.9 billion, while small-to-medium panel shipments were down 7% to 13.7 million units. Year-to-date revenue …

AUO Takes on New Staff for Capacity Expansion

by Milos Pavlovic

AUO is to take on 3,000 new employees in Taiwan – 1,000 of them engineers – to operate its new production capacity, say sources in the country. These include a new fab producing 27,000 …

Panel ASPs Hit the Bottom

by Bob Raikes

This week we have the NAB report as a separate issue to add to our newsletter, with lots of news on HDR and some interesting explanation of the importance of the ATSC 3.0 developments. …

AUO Result 28/04/16

by Bob Raikes

AUO said that its revenues were down 14.7% from last quarter at NT$71.14 billion ($2.2 billion) with a gross margin of just 0.5%. The operating loss was NT$5.1 billion ($158 million) and net loss …

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