Vehicle Monitors: New Business Opportunities for Local Small and Medium Panel Plants

China's mainland has a reputation as a world factory. In the early years, it used to introduce old lines that were eliminated by the Japanese factories and introduced the TFT LCD front-end process, but the results were not impressive. According to Yang Renjie, an analyst with DIGITIMES Research, in recent years, with the support of Chinese government policies, mainland-owned TFT LCD factories with their own technologies have also been established one after another. However, the TFT LCD factories with medium and small size TFT LCDs as their main market target will be required until 2008. After the successful mass production of the Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics 4.5 generation in April, the economic scale was established.

Yang Renjie stated that with the expansion of the size of the cottage market in mainland China, and even the gradual shift from domestic demand to foreign sales, China has become the most promising emerging market for the development of small and medium size TFT LCDs. Some Taiwanese TFT LCD manufacturers take this opportunity to rapidly gain market dominance in China's small-to-medium size TFT LCD market through the superior production efficiency of Open Cell LCD panels.

However, as new production lines of small- and medium-sized panel makers in mainland China are mass-produced, the old 5th-generation line will also be depreciated and amortized, and will start producing small and medium-sized panels to increase production efficiency. The future competitiveness of small- and medium-size panel panels will increase significantly. In addition, Yang Renjie also analyzed that due to the impact of the financial tsunami in 2009, the global automotive market was severely hit, but the size of the Chinese auto market has not decreased but increased, and has surpassed the United States to become the largest single market in the global automotive industry.

In the past, the automotive electronics industry has always been under the control of a few large companies in the United States and Japan. The US and Japanese manufacturers have strict audits on vehicle panel suppliers, making this market always dominated by a few Japanese factories. Other manufacturers can only obtain second sources ( Second source) orders, and not stable. With the rise of the Chinese automotive market, automotive displays will also become an important emerging business opportunity for small and medium-sized panel makers in China.