Blog from December 2019

Display Equipment

DSCC Reveals Quarterly Display Equipment Revenues/Market Share for Over 130 Different Companies in New Report, Downgrades 2019-2020 Equipment Spending on LCD Weakness

December 6, 2019

Thanks to the transparency of the Chinese and Korean display industries, we were able to re-make our report that tracks fab spending into the newly named Quarterly Display Capex and Equipment Market Share Report which now delivers equipment supplier market share for all major display segments.
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Foxconn Subsidy Will Lose Money for Wisconsin, Says Study Group

December 17, 2019

The $3 billion deal between the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and Foxconn for subsidies for an LCD manufacturing plant was agreed by then-Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, and has had many critics from the left of the political spectrum, including his successor, the current Governor Tony Evers, in the 2018 election campaign.
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DSCC’s Latest Long-Term OLED Forecast in OLED Shipment & Fab Utilization Report

December 18, 2019

Mobile OLED panel shipment revenue will increase to nearly $40 billion by 2023 and OLED TV panel revenue will add another $6.5 billion by that year, according to the Q4 update of the DSCC Quarterly OLED Shipment and Fab Utilization Report. The report includes Q3 actual shipments plus DSCC’s estimate for Q4 2019 for smartphone models for the top brands, along with shipment data by application for ten different applications for OLED display panels.
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DSCC Reveals OLED Equipment Supplier Rankings and Share for 56 Different Segments and >90 Suppliers

December 18, 2019

In our Quarterly OLED Supply/Demand and Equipment Spending Report, we provide a deep dive into all OLED fabs revealing not only fab schedules, yields, yielded vs. unyielded capacity and supply/demand, but also equipment spending trends for 64 different segments. For 56 of those segments, we provide market share. In this article, I will reveal some of the equipment spending takeaways.
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Display Technology

The Top Ten Stories of 2019

December 30, 2019

Now in this year’s final edition of the DSCC Weekly Review, it’s time to review the year with the top ten stories. While I solicited and received some input from my DSCC colleagues on this column, the decision on which stories made the top ten was mine.
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Ten Predictions for 2019 – How Did We Do?

December 30, 2019

In the first edition of the DSCC Weekly Review this year, I wrote a story giving ten predictions for the year. Now that we’re at the last edition of the year, and the year is almost over, it’s time to revisit how we’ve done.
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