China has become the focus of competition in the LCD driver talent bottleneck

For display terminal market, whether it is the big screen desktop LCD monitors, LCD TV, notebook computer, handheld terminal equipment or a small screen, TFT-LCD panel and driver are the key devices. For this market, the high growth rate of Chinese military market has become a hotly contested spot. TFT-LCD panel industry in China has gradually started to compete, LCD driver chips have begun to face the pressure of survival. For mainland enterprises in China, although the impact of this wave of less American manufacturers, but it directly with Japan, South Korea and China's Taiwan region of the fierce collision. Due to the same Asian manufacturers, the competition between enterprises will become more intense.

Global impact in Asia Asia potential in China

Changes in the international market, combined with the TFT-LCD panel, LCD driver chip is also an almost complete Asian industry, in the field of display technology, in the forefront of japan. The same is true of the semiconductor chip strategy in the United States, which is focused on the semiconductor core, while the other focuses on the core of the display technology. At present, Japan will be more focused on the development of more advanced display technology, technology has been much higher than the current LCD technology. Therefore, the Japanese TFT-LCD panel and driver chip industry is gradually declining, in the case of lower profit sharing, Japan is slowly withdraw from the market. For SHARP, Hitachi has the core technology advantages of enterprises, diluted profits under the condition of the business will be transferred to Taiwan OEM production in China has become a model, which has become the Japanese enterprises in the field of display technology will be an important step in the localization of core technology to lead the strategic mode.

In contrast, although South Korea has Samsung Electronics, LG PHILPS production line, but also to feed a few IC design companies, but in general there is no particularly large growth, mediocre results.

In the field of LCD driver chip, the most competitive should be our Taiwan company and Hongkong company. Hongkong crystal science and technology in 1999 from the then Motorola separation of entrepreneurship, from 2001 to 2004, the annual growth rate is doubled. The first half of 2005 has reached 18 billion 600 million U.S. dollars of output value, from the LCD driver chip field, the fastest growth in the world's first. Systech (Shenzhen) Co., China operations director Ye Zhaoping said in an interview with reporters China electronic newspaper, the Systech two fields in the portable products small size and large size display TV, have been very perfect, but in small size applications, OLED products are gradually become mainstream, become dominant in the future market.

Hongkong is a crystal door technology thriving, Taiwan is a hundred schools of thought contend. Led by the Taiwan famous "Military" MediaTek, novatek, wonders, Sitronix have become the industry's leading manufacturers. More importantly, whether Systech or Taiwan have been a number of manufacturers, the industry panel manufacturers to support almost all Taiwan panel makers investment figure, which form a very close relationship between industry alliance.

For the electronic industry, several times after the migration is the industry's display is also true for having heard it many times, technology, first Japan, then is currently in South Korea, South Korea and China's Taiwan as the leading competition, such migration is gradually to lower cost and greater market of domestic market transfer. With the Taiwan tigers in Taiwan West, LCD driver chip design company has also through various channels to enter the mainland, the mainland has not yet mature FPD industry, can withstand the impact will become a key. Talent bottleneck such as stab in the throat

Mainland development LCD panel and LCD driver chip industry, the biggest bottleneck from talent. And this constraint is far greater than the development of the semiconductor industry in the general sense of talent bottleneck. In this field, the international market has proven to be a purely Asian into the industry, LCD driven chip manufacturers almost all from Japan, South Korea, the United States, Silicon Valley returnees faction generated little help.

LCD driver chip design and development staff of "foreign aid" mainly from Japan, South Korea and China's Taiwan region, Beijing BOE technology group gathered a large number of South Korean display technology production, design talent, training will play the role of human resources to a great extent. Similarly, including AUO, CMO, CPT, John Guang Hui, "Taiwan five color crystal panel" investment in the mainland, the mainland can play a leading practitioners training objective display device, but can significantly effect also need time.

Crystal door technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. China operations director Ye Zhaoping in the Pearl River Delta to find relevant LCD driver chip development talent, only a difficult word to describe. In the local market is difficult to solve the plight of talent, to South Korea, Japan and China's Taiwan region to seek help has become inevitable.

Scale effect is difficult to form

In addition to talent bottlenecks, LCD driver chip market is not as good as other areas of IC design companies have developed scale. At present, the mainland IC company engaged in the design of the LCD drive chip output has not been at all, except Hongkong Systech LCD driver chip design company mainly concentrated in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing, part of the IC design on TCL internal operation, and also in the operation of the SVA driver chip R & D department, not only at home, more than 10 companies engaged in LCD driver chip design company, and generally has not formed the core strengths of technology accumulation, the development is still