Panel prices are expected to continue rising throughout May thanks to growing LCD TV panel order pull-ins from TV vendors preparing for China s 618 shopping festival and North America and Europe s year-end holidays as well as panel makers moves to limit their utilization rates, according to sources from the panel industry.
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) Co., Ltd., in collaboration with ENNOSTAR and Unikorn Semiconductor Corporation, announced at "Touch Taiwan 2023" the development of a new 0.12-inch micro-display with a pixel density exceeding 6,500 PPI and a blue light brightness of 200,000 nits, using Micro LED technology. The purpose of this collaboration is to improve Micro LED efficiency by optimizing the structure of Micro LED chips and adopting a new thin film protection technology, successfully reducing surface defects, improving external quantum ef.
Radiant Opto-Electronics, a manufacturer of LED backlight units (BLUs), doubts the adoption of OLED-backlit devices by IT brand vendors due to their high pricing.
Coretronic Intelligent Robotics (CIRC), a subsidiary of Taiwan-based backlit unit (BLU) maker Coretronic, will likely see a significant increase in drone orders from ODMs and the military sector from 2023 onward.
Taiwan s exports to China (including Hong Kong) were only US$34.3 billion from January to March 2023, a 30.6% decrease from the same period the previous year, according to Taiwan s Ministry of Economic Affairs. Aside from decreasing demand due to terminal inventory concerns, the US broader export restrictions targeting China s high-tech industry may have had an impact.