Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), the world’s leading firm focused solely on flat panel display industry insight, has released a complimentary white paper, “10 Predictions for the Display Industry in 2022”.

“We are pleased to offer this whitepaper to all those interested in the flat panel display industry,” said Bob O’Brien, Co-Founder & Principal Consultant of DSCC. “We started this tradition in January 2019, and each year we have brought increased expertise to our outlook. We cover the issues of the greatest relevance to the display industry with a view to making aggressive predictions – no safe bets.”

The 2021 version of DSCC’s 10 Predictions series accurately foresaw that “Taiwan panel makers will have their best year in more than a decade”; pending Q4 results it appears that Taiwan panel makers will have their most profitable year ever. In January 2021, DSCC also accurately predicted that “LCD TV panel prices will remain higher than 2020 levels until Q4” – prices peaked in June 2021 but remained higher than 2020 levels until October.

Overall, in 2021, DSCC was right on eight in ten predictions. “We were a little too aggressive in our outlook on MiniLED,” said O’Brien. “We knew growth of MiniLED devices would be stratospheric in 2021, from fewer than 500k in 2020 we predicted 8 million devices in 2021. While the final numbers are not in, we now expect 7.3 million MiniLED devices, covering TVs, monitors, notebooks and tablets.”

In 2022, DSCC’s 10 Predictions paper covers predictions on key topics in the display industry, including:

• LCD TV panel prices
• OLED TV panel shipments
• Samsung Display’s Quantum Display or QD OLED
• US-China Trade War impact on the display supply chain
• Apple’s AR/VR headset
• Blue OLED emitter technology
• LCD capacity expansions
• Inflation in semiconductors and other display components
• Display industry consolidation
• OLED vs. MiniLED in IT applications

Interested clients can view the white paper here.