After Sharp had remodeled its 8G production line and started up in the medium-small size panel production, Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi launched a joint venture, Japan Display, with financial support from the Japanese government.
WitsView, a research unit of TrendForce, estimated that the July 2011 shipments from top ten LCD brand vendors declined by 4% MoM(month-over-month) to 11.37 million due to unclear amount of demand from terminal market and the already high base period for June.
According to the recent survey by WitsView, a research division of TrendForce, large panel shipment in July 2011 reached 56.43 million units, which was a decrease 5.2% from June and a YoY growth of 11%.
According to WitsView, the research arm of TrendForce, Taiwan's LCD TV OEMs shipment by major LCD TV OEMs in Taiwan grew by 7.3% in Q2 relative to Q1 of this year. Demand for worldwide overall LCD TV was adjusted, decreased to 201-203 million. In Q2, brand shipment declined 2% compared to Q1.
According to WitsView, the research department of TrendForce, the poor global economic performance, including worsening Europe and U.S. debt problems and unremitting inflationary pressure, are the main reasons for the depressed demand in the end-user consumer market.