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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 …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Samsung Slips in Large Area

by Tom Allen

Samsung Display’s share of the global large-size (9″+) LCD market has fallen, so that the firm is now placed fifth: behind LGD, BOE, AUO and Innolux. These counterparts have expanded their production of low- …

Taiwanese Panel Makers Slip in Annual Comparison

by Tom Allen

AUO shipped 9.6 million large panels and 14.8 million small panels in March, with sales rising 35% and 26.6% MoM, respectively. In the first quarter, these figures were 24.4 million large (down 11.5% QoQ …

AUO Bezel-less ALCD TV Display Makes Stunning Presence at CITE 2016

by Isaac Oburu

With the exhibition theme of “Infinite Visual Experience”, AU Optronics Corp. (“AUO” or the “Company”) will participate in CITE 2016 (China Information Technology Expo) from April 8 to 10 in Shenzhen, China. In the …

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CITE Holds AUO’s Display Developments

by Tom Allen

AUO has shown a host of new products at the CITE 2016 exhibition in China. Foremost was the company’s new thin-bezel LCD TV (AUO Shows AMOLED for 2016). This 65″ product uses edge-to-edge glass …

LCD Price Fixing Claims Ongoing

by Tom Allen

Reports of LCD price fixing between 1996 and 2006 were first covered by us in late 2006 (Display Monitor Vol 13 No 50), and while most legislation has been finalised, some is still ongoing. …

Flexible Will be Fastest-Growing OLED Segment to 2018

by Tom Allen

The OLED Association (OLED-A) expects the OLED market to grow at a 22% CAGR between 2014 and 2018 – with capacity growth from 1 million m² in 2009 to 6.8 million m² by the …

Small Panel Shipments Cannot Sustain AUO

by Tom Allen

AUO’s unaudited consolidated February revenues were down 15.3% MoM and 27.5% YoY. Revenues reached NT$20.6 billion ($627.2 million). Shipments of large-sized (10″+) panels were just under 7.1 million units, down 9.5% MoM. Small-and-medium panel …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 09

E Ink Plans to Beat 32″

by Tom Allen

E Ink Holdings is developing products larger than its current maximum of 32″, some of which will be released this year, according to company president Frank Ko. However, the firm only has a G2.5 …