AU Optronics News

Universal Display Corporation is a technology company involved in the development of a host of OLED technologies.

The price of polysilicon has been falling significantly since 2011. The current spot price is around US$20-22/kg. Many Taiwan-based firms such as Motech, and AU Optronics have been investing in the production of polysilicon but have not been able to generate profits.

Panel makers such as AU Optronics , Chimei Innolux and Sharp plan to step up shipments of 4096 by 2160 high resolution panels in the second half of 2012 to compete with South Korea-based firms' AMOLED TV panels.

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Taiwan LCD panel makers are seeing positive results with their 39 and 50-inch TV applications as they respond to increased competition with China and Korea makers.

AU Optronics reportedly will begin shipping 4.3-inch AMOLED panels to Sony and HTC in June.

Chimei Innolux and AU Optronics , the two largest Taiwan-based makers of TFT-LCD panels, will have decreasing production costs mainly through gradual reduction in depreciation cost for production equipment in 2012 and 2013, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Taiwan flat-panel makers AU Optronics Corp. and Chimei Innolux Corp. are lagging behind Japanese and South Korean competitors when it comes to thinner touch panel technology used in high-end smartphones, a Taipei-based analyst said recently.

Competition in the OLED TV market is starting to heat up as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics will soon begin promoting their new OLED TV models, which are set to hit markets either in late July or early August.

A report from Taiwan says a smaller-sized iPad could start shipping by the end of the third quarter with a shipment goal of 6 million units for the year.

In an unusual showdown over government ethics, the Justice Department is challenging former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal over his bid to represent an electronics executive convicted of price fixing.

AU Optronics has recently landed OGS touch panel orders for notebooks from Acer and Lenovo, in addition to Asustek Computer, which will purchase over 50% of touch panels for its new TF 300 Transformer tablet PC from AUO, according to industry sources.

HannStar Display has reported revenues of NT$2.95 billion for April, up 1.6% on month but down 24.4% on year.

With a high-profile criminal conviction in the government's price-fixing case against LCD manufacturer AU Optronics Corp.

LCD panel vendor AU Optronics underperforms after reporting April sales fell 3.4% M/M and 8.5% Y/Y. Shipments of 10"+ panels fell 3.9% M/M, while shipments of sub-10" panels fell 17.4% - the latter is likely more evidence of weak orders from mobile device vendors other than Apple and Samsung.

LCD panel maker AU Optronics has announced its consolidated revenues in April decreased 3.4% on month and 8.5% on year to NT$30.36 billion .