TrendForce: LCD monitor shipment down by 5% in 2013

WitsView, the display research division of TrendForce has reported that in year 2013 LCD monitor shipment including AIO is around 158 million units, dipping 5% YoY. Other findings disclosed by WitsView includes: The declining trend will continue in 2014 with a shipment of 150 million units, dropping 5.1% YoY. Among those, the LCD monitor shipment is around 134 million units, declining 6.3% YoY, and the AIO shipment is 16 million units, surging 6.7% YoY. What needs to be observed is panel makers turn aggressive on the wide-viewing-angle panel production, and the wide-viewing-angle shows a penetration rate as high as 30% of the LCD monitors in 2014. WitsView assistant research manager Anita Wang indicates that the 2014 LCD monitor shipment drops 6.3% mainly because brands hold conservative BP, and the constrained LCD monitor panel supply will influence the annual shipment as panel makers adjust capacities. The conventional monitor segment is declining constantly due to the erosion of smart mobile devices, and to maintain profits, most of makers from upstream to downstream develop niche products. Some brands work with Microsoft’s new Windows 8 platform to launch touch LCD monitors but gain unideal sales for the three following reasons: 1. Windows 8 requires a minimum of five-point touch to meet its touch screen standard, brands have to use the projective capacitive...