Coretronic expects product shipments, mainly LED backlight units (BLUs), projectors and visual solution devices, to increase 15-20% on year in 2022, according to the company.

Texas Instruments (TI) have notified its clients that the supply-demand imbalance for analog chips, particularly power management ICs (PMICs), will ease in the second half of the year, according to sources at Chinese distributors of chips and components.

Of the top 100 supply chain companies in Asia, 96 of them are from Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea, and they are core surces of influence on the supply chain in Asia. However, these companies are facing the problem of low gross profit, but the problem of low gross profit differs from country to country, and the profit structure of different fields also shows the difference of competitiveness of each country, and the methods and strategies they rely on to adjust the industry structure.

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, in response to shrinking TV demand, have scaled down their planned procurements of LCD TV panels by 30-40% and 10-20% respectively, according to industry sources.