Expert in the island major casualties predict in the participation of market of Mediatek, before the foreseeable loss of the orders of the Korean Samsung and LG.

The principal world manufacturers of digital TV sets have reacted to the world economic crisis suspending the subcontracting of the chips of intermediate technology and making them of proper branches.

These changes have helped to which the section of design of integrated circuits of Samsung happens from the ninth one to the third world position in the chips manufacture for TV sets of liquid crystal, with a participation of market of 9,9 per cent.

DisplaySearch, American company of pursuit of markets, pointed out that the big world producers of digital TV sets think that to reinforce the competitiveness consists of the control of the vertical chain of production, diminishing the subcontractings.

In the third trimester of 2008 there sold a whole of 34,5 million TV sets of liquid crystal, what supposes a rise of 14,8 per cent with regard to previous and 11,1 per cent interannual trimester.

Taiwanese experts in the sector think that the fall in the demand of the big companies just will diminish the world participation of the Taiwanese companies, but it will not finish his control of the market.


(Agencies, 12/01/09)