China Car Display Market Report, 2005

This report describes the status of the industry, and the technological features and performance comparison of the major technologies (CSTN-LCD, TFT-LCD, VFD, etc) of the car display. The report introduces the production and market status of the car display before and after market, along with mainstream technologies and configuration of the car display panel. The report also analyzes the future development of the car display market, it introduces car display-used TFT-LCD, STN-LCD, OLED, VFD manufacturers, and the production and sales status of China's car manufacturers.

1. Car display market has huge development potential

Compared with 2004, the scale of the car display market (including STN, TFT, VFD, and OLED) in 2005 is expected to increase 10%, which is mainly because of the popularization of the a-Si TFT display in the car market. With the applications of navigation system and backseat entertainment system, the amount of a-Si TFT displays is expected to increase 13% during 2004-2005.

To consumers, the cost of car display can almost be ignored comparing with the costly car. Thus, the image effect is the consumers' first concern, while price is the next. Therefore, car display market is worthy of consideration for those who own high-end display technologies.

2. VFD is more applied in car instrument panels

Instrument panel is a standard configuration of car, whose market scale is increasing stably with the development of the car industry. VFD instrument panels were used only in top-grade cars and Japanese cars in the past, now many medium even low-end cars configure VFD instrument panels. Thus VFD application in car instrument panel will be further expanded.

3. a-Si TFT-LCD will be mainstream technology in car display field in the next few years

The TFT-LCD technology used in car display panel is mainly a-Si TFT-LCD which is advantageous both in price and performance, and which will be the absolute mainstream technology in the next few years. While LTPS TFT-LCD car display panel only has one major manufacturer – Toppoly, the percentage is very low, but with the improvement of production yield and cost structure, it has chance to surpass a-Si TFI-LCD in the future.

4. 7-inch and 6.5-inch car display panel are mainstream currently

Currently, sizes of car display panel are mainly 6.5-inch and 7-inch, accounting for 33.8% and 41.7% respectively; only a few adopt 5.8-inch or 8-inch. Most of the car displays are wide screen, and the resolution is usually 480x234. Due to the consumers' demand for higher resolution and for displaying more information, future mainstream car display panel will be 10-inch, and the resolution will be 800x480.

5. More car displays will be installed in cars in the future

Car display market includes car navigation device, car TV and car information system according to its applications. According to the time of the assembly, it can be divided into before market and after market. Before market is difficult to enter due to the strict authentication, while after market which needn't to be authenticated is the largest market (20 times of the before market) currently. With the car navigation system becoming the standard configuration, the percentage of before market will be gradually increased. According to statistical information, about 5% of the 59 million cars were installed GPS or NAVI in 2003, 13.8% with car displays. The percentage would be grown in 2004, and about 16% of the 60 million cars will be installed car displays.

6. Most of the car display LCD panel and before market car display manufacturers are Japanese manufacturers

The production of car display LCD panel is almost monopolized by Japanese manufacturers; TMD and Sharp only take over 80% of the share. The manufacture of before market car display is also centralized in Japanese companies; Panasonic, Fujitsu, and Pioneer take 40%. The reasons for this one is because of the powerful strength of the Japanese enterprises in medium and small-size fields; the other is that most of the cars with LCD displays are Japanese cars, such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, etc. SHOW LESS READ MORE >

Chapter One: Major Technologies and Industrial Status of Car Display Panel

1.1 Classification of car display panel
1.2 LCD technologies of medium and small-sized displays
1.2.1 LCD industrial structure
1.2.2 Technology and performance comparison of LCD display
1.2.3 Classification and comparison of TFT-LCD technology
1.2.4 Status of car display-used LCD industry
1.3 OLED
1.3.1 Classification of OLED
1.3.2 Status of car-used and car audio OLED industry
1.4 VFD
1.4.1 VFD structure and theory
1.4.2 Current status of VFD industry

Chapter Two: Car Display Industry and Market Status

2.1 General status of the car display market
2.2 Car display industrial status
2.2.1 Applications of car display
2.2.2 Before market and after market
2.2.3 China's car display production gives priority to after market
2.2.4 The manufacture of car displays is centralized in Japanese manufacturers
2.3 Car display market status
2.3.1 a-si TFT-LCD is mainstream technology of car display panel in recent years
2.3.2 Sizes and resolutions of the screens
2.4 Development trends of car display market
2.4.1 Car display will become standard configuration
2.4.2 China's car display market has most potential

Chapter Three: Major Car Display Panel Manufacturers

3.1 Car display TFT-LCD manufacturers
3.1.1 Hitachi
3.1.2 Sharp
3.1.3 Casio
3.1.4 Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology, TMD
3.1.5 Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices
3.1.6 Samsung
3.1.7 AUO
3.1.8 Toppoly Optoelectronics
3.1.9 Philips Semiconductors
3.1.10 Prime View
3.2 Major STN-LCD manufacturers
3.2.1 Wintek
3.2.2 Tianma
3.2.3 Hyundai LCD
3.2.4 Picvue
3.2.5 Arima
3.2.6 Truly Semiconductors
3.2.7 Emerging Display Technologies, EDT
3.2.8 Oplink
3.2.9 Optrex
3.3 Major VFD manufacturers
3.3.1 Futaba
3.3.2 Samsung SDI
3.3.3 SSVD
3.3.4 Zhejiang BOE Display Technology
3.3.5 Shanghai ZhongYing VFD Co., Ltd

Chapter Four: Analysis on Car Manufacturers

4.1 SUV manufacturers
4.2 MPV manufacturers
4.3 Saloon car manufacturers
4.4 Mini car manufacturers

Selected figures and tables

- Production capacity statistics of major medium and small-sized TFT-LCD panel manufacturers worldwide
- Car display manufacturers in China mainland
- TFT-LCD production line of Hitachi
- TFT-LCD production line of Sharp
- Introduction of Sharp's small-sized LCD plant
- TFT-LCD production line of TMD
- LCD industry chain structure
- Car display panel shipment percentage of different manufacturers, Q4/2004
- Sizes of a-si TFT-LCD panels, Q4/2004
- Quarterly sales revenue of Hitachi's LCDs, 2002-2004

- Hitachi
- Sharp
- Casio
- Toshiba Matsushita Display Technologies
- Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices
- Samsung
- AUO
- Toppoly Optoelectronics
- Philips Semiconductors
- Prime View
- Wintek
- Tianma
- Hyundai LCD
- Picvue
- Arima
- Truly Semiconductors
- Emerging Display Technologies, EDT
- Oplink
- Optrex
- Futaba
- Samsung SDI
- Zhejiang BOE Display Technology
- Shanghai ZhongYing VFD Co., Ltd