IT panel market struggles to pass on costs: monitors hold flat, notebooks slide

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by JP/KR/TW: Korea Herald / Taipei Times / DigiTimes at 19 Oct, 16:03 UTC

Sluggish end-market recovery, cautious procurement by brand customers, and persistently high upstream material costs are frustrating panel makers' efforts to implement price hikes for IT panels. In October, quotes for mainstream LCD monitor panels held flat, while notebook panel prices continued a…