This year's semiconductor market growth rate of 5.8%

The overall oversupply situation in the global DRAM market continues to intensify. DIGITIMES expects that the global DRAM market capacity will grow by 58.7% in 2011, 31.5 percentage points higher than the demand growth, and the excess capacity accounts for 28.2%.

IEK expects that the 12-year LED market in China will reach 60.5 billion yuan, and the compound annual growth rate in 2008-12 will reach 34%. The self-sufficiency rate of LED chips will reach 70% in 15 years.

DIGITIMES expects shipments of LCD driver ICs for 10Q4 mobile phones to reach 330 million units, down 3.1% month-on-month; 11Q1 will continue to decline by 3.6% to 320 million units, but high-resolution IC shipments will increase by 62% year-on-year.

From January to November, the exports of PCBs, capacitors, resistors, inductors, electro-acoustic devices, magnetic materials and devices, and electrical connector components from domestic subdivided products were 32.74%, 44.62%, 41.30%, 54.31%, respectively. 36.04%, 43.75%, 39.59%.

According to the latest data from the American Electronics Industry Connection Association, in November 2010, the North American region’s PCB industry’s moving average order shipment ratio for March was 0.96, which was a decrease of 0.02 from October 2010 and fell below 1 for two consecutive months.

DisplaySearch expects that the global touch screen shipment will increase by at least 30% in 10 years, and the projected capacitance will formally surpass resistance to become the technology with the highest proportion of output value.

DIGITIMES anticipates that Taiwan's mobile phone touch module shipments will reach 230 million units in 10 years, an increase of 51%, CAGR22% in 10-13 years, and tablet touch panels for Taiwanese manufacturers will increase from 16.76 million in 10 years to 13 years in 6 years. 10000 tablets, CAGR 58% in 10-13 years.

IDC expects that global smartphone sales will reach 500 million units in 11 years, an increase of 85% year-on-year, 30 percentage points higher than in 10 years; China's tablet PC sales are expected to reach 2.5 million units, which will increase by more than 300% year-on-year.

DisplaySearch predicts that global Internet TV will account for 21% of all TV shipments in 10 years, and the Chinese market will be 12%. In 14 years, Internet TV shipments will reach 120 million units.

Apple's shipment of 11Q1 iPhone is expected to increase from 19 million units to 21-20 million units. For iPad, Apple has ordered 65 million 9.7-inch iPad displays for 11 years.