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16 March 2009

 

LED-backlit notebook PC shipments grow 62% in Q4/2008

Shipments of 120Hz (double frame rate) LCD TV panels of 3.3 million units in fourth-quarter 2008 were flat on Q3/2008, but rose from 15% to 16% of all 32” and above LCD TV panels and from 27% to 31% of all 40” and above LCD TV panels, according to market research firm DisplaySearch’s ‘Quarterly Large-Area TFT LCD Shipment Report’.

Meanwhile, due to cost reductions and the launches of new notebook PC models, shipments of notebook panels with LED backlights grew by 62%, from 2.3 million to 3.7 million (following 63% growth in Q3). Accentuated by the overall notebook PC market falling 24% (from 36.8 million to 28.1 million), notebook panels with LED backlights rose from a 6.3% share to a 13.4% share of all notebook panels (excluding 10.1” and 10.2” mini-note panels).

LG Display was the leading supplier of notebook LED backlight panels (with 38.3% market share, up from 23% in Q3), followed by fellow Korean firm Samsung (19.2%, up from 12%), Japan’s Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (16.4%, down from a leading 39% in Q3), Taiwan’s AU Optronics (12.9%, down from 23%) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (11.8%, up from just 1%), and Hydis (1.4%, down from 2%).

In Q4/2008, 12.1” 1280 x 800, 13.3” 1280 x 800, and 15.4” 1280 x 800 and 1440 x 900 were the leading sizes of LED backlight notebook panels. New 16:9 panels will largely adopt LED backlights in 2009.

With the adoption of LED backlights being triggered by lower cost and new LED backlight structures, estimates from notebook panel makers suggest that the penetration of notebook panels with LED backlights will almost double again to 24% in Q1/2009. This is a more rapid increase in penetration than forecast just a quarter ago, accelerated by the slowdown in the overall notebook PC market since late 2008.

Many notebook brands (including HP, Dell and Acer) are planning to launch new LED notebook models in first-half 2009. Consequently, in Q4/2009 the majority of notebook panels shipped are expected to have LED backlights.

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