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Japanese Company is no longer the world’s leading maker of flat-panel LCD TVs<br /><br />http://www.smarthousenews.com.au/TVs_And_Large_Display/LCD?Article=/TVS%20And%20Large%20Display/LCD/P9C2T3T6<br /><br />2006 World LCD TV share TOP5 Company (From DisplaySearch)<br />1 Samsung(Korea) 13.4% <br />2 Philips (EU) 13% <br />3 Sony(Japan) 11.6% <br />2 Sharp(Japan) 11.4%<br />4 LG Electronics (Korea) 7.1% <br /><br />2006 World DRAM share TOP5 Company (From iSuppli)<br />http://www.thinkit.co.jp/free/news/reuters/0702/02/14.html<br /><br />1.Samsung 28% (Korea) <br />2.Hynix 13.6% (Korea) <br />3.Qimonda 9.5% (Germany) <br />4.Micron 9.2% (United States) <br />4.Elpida 8.3%(Japan)<br /><br />2006 Q3 World Plasma TV share TOP5 Company (From DisplaySearch)<br />http://www.displaysearch-japan.com/release/2007/01/r31.html<br /><br />1.LG Electronics 32.5% (Korea) <br />2.Panasonic 30.4% (Japan)<br />3.Samsung SDI 23.2% (Korea) <br />4.Fujitsu-Hitachi 8.9% (Japan) <br />5.Pioneer 4.8% (Japan)<br /><br /><br />Sharp Stumbles In LCD TV Race<br /><br />David Richards - Monday, 19 February 2007 <br /><br />Just as Sharp is cranking up its LCD TV presence in Australia it has been revealed that the Japanese Company is no longer the world’s leading maker of flat-panel LCD TVs, according to two market research companies.<br /><br />Rivals surpassed the Japanese company in unit shipments last year for the first time, according to iSuppli Corp. and NPD Group's DisplaySearch.<br />"This is a significant blow to Sharp," iSuppli analyst Riddhi Patel said. "While its market share had been declining, Sharp had managed to maintain a considerable distance from its competitors. However, this is no longer the case."<br />Both research companies found that Samsung Electronics Co., based in South Korea, rose to the top spot, though they differ in Sharp's relative ranking.<br />ISuppli said Samsung's worldwide market share was 14.6 percent, followed by Royal Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands at 13.4 percent then Sharp at 13.3 percent, Tokyo-based Sony Corp. at 12.7 percent and Seoul-based LG Electronics Co. at 7.6 percent.<br />DisplaySearch pegged Samsung's market share at 13.4 percent, followed by Philips at 13 percent, then Sony at 11.6 percent, Sharp at 11.4 percent, and LG at 7.1 percent.<br /><br />DisplaySearch also found that on a revenue basis, Sony stole the No. 1 spot from Sharp for the first time in 2006.<br /><br />Analysts say rivals began to erode Sharp's leadership in 2005 by more quickly building manufacturing plants to lower production costs and deliver a wider range of flat-panel TVs.<br /><br />Although Sharp was still the market leader in smaller-sized LCD TVs, rivals ramped their production to successfully feed consumers' demands for ever bigger TVs, said Edward Taylor, a vice president of TV market research at DisplaySearch.<br /><br />"I don't think the game is over for Sharp," he said. "Technologically speaking, they're out in front, but Samsung and Sony are right there, and those two offer a broader product range."<br /><br />Sharp media representatives said no one was immediately available for comment Wednesday.<br /><br />After losing significant ground in the market during the past holiday quarter, Sharp said in January it planned to boost production with expanded manufacturing lines and a new factory in Mexico.<br /><br />"By building a robust supply setup, we hope to be even more aggressive in our global business," Sharp President Katsuhiko Machida said at the time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />2006 Q3 LCD maker TOP5 <br />http://www.displaysearch-japan.com/release/2006/12/r27.html<br />1 Samsung(Korea) 13.2% <br />2 Sharp(Japan) 13.0% <br />3 Sony(Japan) 10.3% <br />4 LG Electronics (Korea) 7.4% <br />5 AOC (Taiwan) 6.6% |
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