NPD DispalySearch announced the late-May panel price on Tuesday suggesting that the price of 32-inch panel increased by us$1 because of the panel shortage, which comes from the adoption of new product, low defect-free rate of switch of productive capacity as well as the brand companies’ inventories, nonetheless price of 40/42/48/50-inch panel stay level.

Liu Chen-hung, deputy manager with WitsView, said that 32/42-inch panel price increased between us$1-2, 46/48-inch price increased between us$1-3 and 50/55-inch price stayed level. Thanks to the limitation of production, the price of security monitor panel rose less. Notebook panel price is almost stable, also.

The over-expectation of need for small size TV panel and the subsidies for AIO as well as the standard’s transformation are all prime factors to stretch the production volume of monitor panel continuously.