Our commodity manager for memory produAfter a slow eight-month period, LCD manufacturers are seeing an acceleration in sales and shipments of panels, according to research firm Displaybank.

Large-area TFT-LCD (thin film transistor liquid crystal display) panel shipments for August 2009 totaled 50.18 million units, a 27.1 percent increase from August 2008, according to Displaybank. The recovery has been slow but steady since January, when large-area TFT-LCD panel shipments were 23.7 million units, the research firm said.

Samsung Electronics retained its No.1 position in market share in August based on unit/volume. The company claimed 27 percent of the market in August, followed by LG Display with 24 percent market share. Trailing far behind, but maintaining its No. 3 ranking, was AUOptronics, with 17 percent market share.

Broken into three segments -- LCD monitors, notebooks and LCD TVs -- Displaybank found that LCD monitor shipments climbed to 17.7 million units, up from 16.1 million in August 2008. In spite of the economy, or maybe as a sign of recovery, LCD TVs also showed year-over-year growth, climbing from 9.7 million unit shipments in August 2008 to 13.6 million units this past August.

Read more in the September 28, 2009 Channel Web