Taipei Times
Date: Jan 24, 2018
By: Lisa Wang / Staff reporter
Innolux Corp (群創) last year safeguarded its ranking as the world’s third-largest LCD TV panel supplier after a fall in panel prices helped stimulate demand and digest excessive inventory in the second half of the year, market researcher TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) said yesterday.
Improving demand helped offset stagnation in shipment growth as Innolux struggled to improve the yield rate for its new 8.6G production line in the first half of last year, the Taipei-based research company said in a report.
Innolux’s TV clients were cautious about placing orders after the panel manufacturer last year restarted its TV set assembly business to minimize operational volatility, the report said.
Miaoli County-based Innolux shipped 41.8 million flat panels used in TVs, inching up 0.2 percent from 41.73 million units shipped in 2016, TrendForce data showed.
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