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LCD Glass Market
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LCD (liquid crystal display) glass is the thin sheet glass used in flat-panel TVs, flat-panel computer notebooks and desktop monitors, cell phones and personal digital assistants. As demand grows for those products, so grows the demand for LCD glass.
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 Replacement of CRTs by LCDs in PC and TV markets, increasing screen sizes, and underlying PC market growth are three key drivers of this growing demand.
LCD TVs would account for up to 16 per cent of the global TV market within the next three years. Televisions with screens of 30 to 39 inches will be the fastest-growing segment of the LCD TV market. TVs sold in those screen sizes now represent 4 percent of the market, but Corning, the world leader in large-generation LCD glass substrates, forecasts that they will represent 18 percent of the market in 2007.
To support the growing demand for larger displays, LCD panel manufacturers are migrating toward larger size glass substrates in their process. As the migration progresses, demand for large-sized LCD glass substrates continues to grow worldwide with a quickening pace. Since 2000, glass substrate size has approximately doubled every 1.5 years. The products are the driving force behind this migration in the LCD industry. Larger glass substrates enable bigger screens for LCD desktop monitors, LCD TVs, notebook computers, and other products.
Notebook computers will keep demand high as well, with total notebook penetration of the computer market expected to hit 30 per cent by 2006.
IDC, a company that provides market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology and telecommunications industries, believes that the overall LCD panel market is in a balanced status in 2005 and expects to see slight oversupply in 2006, especially in the first half of the year. As panel vendors continue to build up new capacity with next-generation fabs, there will be larger capacity coming online in the next few quarters. By examining market demand by application, panel makers need to plan ahead of the future product mix, which is the key factor affecting the overall demand and supply ratio.
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Last review: November, 2012 |
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