The latest panel price report from WitsView, a division of TrendForce, finds the prices for TV panels of mainstream sizes will hold steady in April as Chinese brand vendors are stocking up for Chinese Labor Day sales. Though panel prices are kept to a certain level, brand vendors have revised their shipment downwards and may later face inventory pressure. Therefore, the second quarter outlook after the month of May is more worrisome than upbeat.
China’s mobile healthcare industry is now the hotspot for major investment opportunities, and close to 100 projects across a spectrum of medical fields have been set up since 2014. Montaigne Wang, an industry analyst at Topology, a division of TrendForce, said the competitive landscape of this industry will radically change with the entry of BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent).
According to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, smartphone shipments have been weak since the beginning of 2015. The decline in Q1 shipments was up to 9.2% QoQ. Although heavyweights Apple and Samsung are showing relatively strong shipments figures in Q2, significant smartphone growth is not expected for the quarter as channel inventory in China remains high.