14 DAY TRIAL // The market for large-size TFT-LCD displays could be seen as similar to that of DRAM, as far as marketing evolution is concerned, even though its decline isn't as sharp and hasn't been going on for quite as long.
The revelations on the part of market analysts that keep track of developments on the IT market and its individual segments have been rather mixed lately.
While the DRAM market, for instance, has been dragging its boots (as always), notebooks performed better than expected, though this didn't stop the overall chip market from going down the path of decline.
It is now reported that there are other IT fields where things could be better, like the market of large-size TFT-LCD panels.
The folks over at Digitimes were able to provide the price levels that liquid crystal displays are at right now, and the picture is none too encouraging.
In fact, the report goes so far as to say that large-size TFT-LCD panels are at a record low.
18.5-inch monitor panels, for instance, slid to US$54 in the first half of the ongoing month (September 2011), about $1 less than the August level.
Meanwhile, 15.6-inch screens slid by the same amount, to $43, while 32-inch and 42-inch TV screens now sell for $134 and $215, respectively, $3 less than in August.
Oversupply is, as some may have guessed, the main issue behind this all, and it might even get worse from here on.
Though companies try to exhaust their inventories, investments in large-size panel continued, and production increased, on the part of BOE Technology and China Star OptoElectronics Technology, for example.
With this to further worsen the imbalance, panel prices are only set to tumble even further down over the next months.
The continued economic turmoil caused by the recession in the US and Europe definitely isn't helping matters either.
On the flip side, consumers can be glad at how this all means that it will be easier than ever to buy a new display at a bargain.