Recent changes in the global display market

According to a comprehensive report, there have been some major changes in the global display market recently, as follows: (1) Sony decided to withdraw from the loss of the back projection TV market, in order to focus more on the LCD and OLED these two flat-panel TV technology. Back projection TV sales in recent years under the double attack from the LCD TV and plasma TV, shrinking market. Sony's projection TV sales in the previous fiscal year to 1 million 100 thousand units, the company in October 2007 to cut its global sales forecast, reduced from 700 thousand units to 400 thousand units. (2) launched 11 inch OLED TV in November 2007 before the Sony Samsung SDI also subsequently announced that the company developed 31 inch ultra-thin OLED display products, make this field competition more interesting. However, Samsung SDI refused to disclose when the 31 inch OLED screen will mass production, said it must depend on the TV supplier's plan. Active matrix OLED (AM OLED) display technology is likely to be the main driving force in the future development of the field of display. (3) Japan's Fujitsu group has given the lack of profits, announced the termination of production of plasma TV, it is worth noting that the company is the first company to plasma TV commercial production industry, it is in the early 90s. Before commercialization, the company in the United States and Japan launched more than twenty years of research and development. Fujitsu Ltd. belongs to the Fujitsu General Ltd. has stopped most of the production business, the company is currently only in the United States and the United Kingdom, some of the electronic stores to provide high-end models.

Source: topology Research Institute