After the Spring Festival, the demand for brand stocking has warmed up, although on the one hand it is affected by the reduction in inventory, on the other hand, affected by the CPT event, the a-Si market price wants to rise.

On the demand side, for one thing, the inventory of brand manufacturers is still high, for another the mass production time of the Intel processor’s 10 nanometer process is uncertain, CPU shortage continues affecting the product structure of brand manufactories, so the stock of brand manufactories is conservative, and overall demand continues declining slightly. Sigmaintell predicts that the average price of notebook panels falls by $0.3 to $0.4 in February, and that the average price of notebook panels will maintain the same range of decline in March.

Global Vehicle sales declined year on year in 2018 due to the weakening environment

Influenced by factors such as trade protection and economic downturn, preliminary statistics of Sigmaintell shows that the global Vehicle sales volume in 2018 was about 95.3 million units, declined by 0.4% year on year. With the impact of weak global industry environment and the declining consumer confidence, global Vehicle  sales are expected to remain basically unbiased in 2019.

According to the calculation based on “supply and demand model” of Sigmaintell, The global TV panel market was structurally unbalanced in the first quarter.Affected by the sharp adjustment of the previous price, the small and medium-sized prices gradually bottomed out. It is expected that the price will rise slightly in March. The large-scale production capacity will continue to increase, and the demand in the off-season will not be strong, and the price will continue to fall. The performance analysis of each size is as follows:

In 2018, the shipment volume of Notebook panel was about 184.6M,  increased by 4.5% year on year.

According to Sigmaintell data, in 2018 the shipment of volume of Notebook panel was about 184.6M, increased by 4.5% year on year. The growth mainly comes from BOE/AUO/ Innolux/ LGD, which accounts for more than 90% of global shipments.

According to the calculation based on “supply and demand model” of Sigmaintell, Global panel supply &demand was loose in Q1, but the structure was divided, supply &demand of mid-small size was balanced; supply &demand of large size still imbalanced. Sigmaintell forecast that prices are heading towards differentiation, and price of mid-small size will stop falling, and large sizes continue to fall.

55", supply increase. supply &demand is loose, panel price will remain decline of $3 in Feb.

Oversea and domestic demand continue to drop, meanwhile panel makers maintain high loading rate, global LCD TV panel price remain decline trend, and small size panel price dropped a lot before, decline range will be narrowed in Dec, and Brands is active to prepare large size panels, price will decline slightly.

According to investigation and forecast done by Sigmaintell, global shipment of flat-panel television of the Q1 in 2018 is anticipated to be 51 million sets, which grows 2.6% on year-on-year basis.

According to the statistics of Sigmaintell, the global TV shipment in 2017 was 230M with year-on-year decline of 3.4%. At the beginning of 2018, the Indian government increased the import tariff of TV again. Chinese government enhanced the credit control and real estate control; the global monetary exchange rate had some turbulences.

According to the data from China Display Shipment Analysis by Sigmaintell, China eSports display shipment increases rapidly in the second half of 2017, with a 166% increase in the third quarter QoQ, a 90% increase in the fourth quarter QoQ and a shipment up to 450 thousand sets.

with manufactures being slack in stocking in the first quarter and panel manufacturers adjusting production allocation strategies rapidly, according to the “supply demand model” of Sigmaintell, the supply/demand ration in the first quarter of 2018 will be 6.2%, showing a slight oversupply.

According to data of Global Television Manufacturer's Shipping Analysis Report from the Sigmaintell, the total shipments of the world's biggest 15 national TV manufacturers were 84 million 900 thousand, which grows 18.1% year on year.

According to Sigmaintell surveyed data, in Jan Y2018 TV set makers are positive to prepare material, and affected by China Spring Festival in Feb, partial demand will be advanced, price of TV panel will keep decreasing slightly.

About larger size, demand is recovering, but demand &supply still loose, it is estimated that the panel price decline of Jan will be less than $10.

According to forecast from Sigmaintell, shipment of TV panel in 2018 will be about 0.261 million sets. However, market requirement on panel with large size develops rapidly, which drives average size to increase 1.7 inch and the area of required panel grows 7.6% on year-on-year basis. Meanwhile, manufacturers of complete machine actively plan the overall arrangement of products with large size in 2018. The average size of complete TV set increases 1.5 inch to reach 44.8 inch.

According to the prediction of Sigmaintell, the volume of procurement in the fourth quarter of 2017 will increase by 6% over the same period. In the first quarter of 2018, it will continue to grow by about 10%.

It is the end of 2017, however, it is the beginning of tendency of full screen smartphone. Greatly affected by Samsung and Apple, full screen smartphone enters the market this year. And iPhone X, the first full screen smartphone of Apple, pushes the trend to reach another peak. This also indicates the start of the era of full screen smartphone. Therefore, it could say that 2017 is the first year of the era of full screen smartphone.

According to the latest data from the survey of Sigmaintell, the global shipment of full screen smart phone panels in 2017 has reached about 230 million, and the quantity of output in the second half year has contributed nearly 200 million pieces to the market.

The data of "Analysis Report of Global TV Foundry Shipments" from Sigmaintell showed that in November 2017, the shipments of the world's top 13 TV reached 9.02 million, which increased 19.2% compared with the same period of last year and was consistent with out forecast.

According to Sigmaintell’s data, in 2017, the sales volume of "11.11" in Mainland China reached 2.927 million sets, a substantial increase over the same period of the previous year. In particular, the positive sales promotion of 32" and 55" showed an obvious increase in sales volume.