14 DAY TRIAL // Like notebooks, TVs and monitors haven't been selling as well as they could and should have lately.
Things are still different, though. While notebook vendors have been careful about their inventories, display brand vendors have been a bit lax in their watch of future possibilities.
Which is to say, they have been caught flat-footed by low sales. And since they already had manufacturing contracts with assembly factories, they have ended up with surplus inventories.
By the end of the first half of 2013, 47.7 million square meters of LCD panels for use in TVs and public information displays were produced globally.
Shipments only amounted to 46.8 million square meters, meaning that production exceeded shipments by 2%.
Meanwhile, 18.4 million square meters of LCD monitor panels were made, only 18 million of which sold. That's a 2.6% difference.
Not massive, fortunately, but the differences are noticeable enough to give companies pause. We'll have to wait and see where things go from here.