In recent years, Taiwan’s panel makers have actively deployed the automotive application market, surpassing Japan in 2016, becoming the largest supplier of on-board panels, with a market share of nearly 40% in 2017, and still maintaining the market's leading position. However, last year South Korea’s mainland panel makers aggressively In the car panel market, the gap between the panel makers and manufacturers was narrowed. In 2017, shipments of JDI car panels in Japan grew by 8%, AUO also grew by 7%, and Innolux fell by 9%. However, LGD received the Dachang center console panel. Orders, shipments grew by 22% in 2017, and Tengma shipments grew by 43%.
Most of the center consoles are standard specifications, becoming the first product category for panel makers to cut into the car. In 2017, the sales of LGD center console panels grew by 24%, and the growth rate of Tianma grew by as much as 60%. In contrast, Japan has been cultivating the panel for a long time. , Taiwan's panel makers, because of the fierce competition in the center console panel, the decline in profits, most of the shipments declined in 2017, JDI shipments decreased by 6%, AUO slightly reduced by 1%, a decline of 14%.
According to IHS Markit, due to the high quality and trustworthiness of dashboard panels, Japan is still a major supplier. JDI has a large supply of 3.5-inch, 4.2-inch instrument panel panels, and more and more high-grade vehicles have been introduced into digital instruments. As a result, the shipments of the 10 inch and 12.3 inch instrument panels grew rapidly. The focus of the panel makers in Japan and Taiwan shifted to the dashboard panel in 2017. JDI shipments grew by 14%, and AUO's shipments doubled. Innolux's shipments grew. 32%. South Korea, the mainland panel factory also has great growth, LGD shipments increased by 17%, Tianma grew by 35%.
In 2018, the shipment of panel panels from various panel makers was very positive. However, apart from JDI's 29.91 million units, the shipments of other panel makers are quite close to each other. It can be seen that the competition in the vehicle panel market is fierce. IHS Markit's investigation It was pointed out that Innotec's shipments included the front and rear market, with a shipment target of 23 million pieces, ranking second in the market. Others such as AUO, LGD, Sharp, and Tianma, had shipment targets of 19 million in 2018 Film, Huaying shipping target estimated about 14.5 million.