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AUSTIN, TX - DisplaySearch published survey findings on TV shipments for Q4 2007. TV shipments increased 5% year-on-year and 21% for the quarter compared to 2006. Over 60 million units were shipped in 4Q and 200 million units for all of 2007. This is the first time sales has topped $100 billion according to DisplaySearch.
 
Sony lead in the LCD TV segment, outperforming Samsung. Global shipments of LCD TVs in the Q4 was up 56% YoY and 73% for the year to nearly 80 million units. Based on strong sales in the Americas, Sony staged a comeback, ranking second in Q3 and leading for Q4.

TAIWAN - The notebook PC industry in Taiwan hit a new record high for a single quarter, shipping slightly over 28 million notebook computers in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a report by Taiwan's International Data Corporation (IDC).

The number was an increase of 11.6% percent from the previous quarter with growth of 44% year-over-year. The report says that shipments were driven by rising market demand and holiday purchases.

Of the shipments, the report said that 88.5% were delivered by five of Taiwan's original design manufacturers: Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron Corp., Inventec Corp. and ASUSTek Computer. Notebook production during the period was $15 billion, for a year-over-year increase of 31.6%, the report said.

IDC Taiwan research manager Helen Chiang said domestic notebook manufacturers performed better than expected because of brisk sales by the major manufacturers of consumer PCs.