LED chip supply nervous LG LCD TV sales down

The latest news from the Taiwan media, before the world's second largest TV maker LG has set the target to 30 million LCD TV shipments this year, but because the TV panel LCD TV and other related components have many problems on the supply side, so that the target LG will be difficult to achieve, analysts said this year LG LCD TV shipments are expected at around 28 million.

Earlier this year LG has disclosed LCD TV shipments this year is expected to be 25 million units, but the LG internal target is actually 30 million, that is to say LG announced the target is actually conservative values, while the 30 million is the number of internal LG really want to shock. According to LG at the beginning of the program, all shipments will include 6 million Taiwan LCD TV backlight LCD TV, but now because of a serious shortage of LED chip, LED backlight LCD TV shipments of LG is far lower than the target.

Shipments from the first quarter of the first quarter of this year, LG a total of 6 million LCD TV shipments, is still the world's second largest TV manufacturers, but LED backlight LCD TV accounted for only 5% of about 300 thousand units, so the volume of 6 million units of LED backlight LCD TV is difficult to complete the annual. Insiders said, it is because the supply of LED chip so that LG may not be able to complete the annual task, if the LG according to the target set at the beginning to continue it, then shipments of LED backlight LCD TV LG in the second quarter from the fourth quarter of each quarter at least reached 1 million 900 thousand units.

LG said, currently continue to enhance the television components of continuous supply capacity, and to keep the TV shipments growth, if current growth conditions, LG next year in the context of the global TV shipments will reach 35 million to 40 million units.