LPL » Topics » Our revenues depend on continuing demand for notebook computers, desktop monitors, televisions and other application products with TFT-LCD panels. Our sales may not grow at the rate we expect if consumers do not purchase these products.

This excerpt taken from the LPL 20-F filed Jun 21, 2006.

Our revenues depend on continuing demand for notebook computers, desktop monitors, televisions and other application products with TFT-LCD panels. Our sales may not grow at the rate we expect if consumers do not purchase these products.

Currently, our total sales are derived principally from customers using our products in notebook computers, desktop monitors, televisions and other application products with display devices. In particular, a substantial percentage of our sales is derived from end-brand customers, or their designated system integrators, who use our TFT-LCD panels in their desktop monitors, which accounted for 57.7% , 56.0% and 47.0% of our total sales based on revenue in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively. A substantial portion of our sales is also derived from end-brand customers, or their designated system integrators, who use our panels in their notebook computers, which accounted for 28.5%, 25.5% and 21.0% of our total sales based on revenue in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively. A significant portion of our sales is also increasingly derived from end-brand customers, or their designated system integrators, who use our panels in their televisions, which accounted for 11.2%, 14.0% and 27.8% of our total sales based on revenue in 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively. We will continue to be dependent on the personal computer industry as well as growth in the television industry for a significant portion of our sales, and any downturn in the personal computer and television industry may result in reduced demand for our products, lower average selling prices and/or reduced margins.

In addition, we anticipate that there will be increasing migration from conventional cathode ray tube, or CRT, televisions to TFT-LCD televisions. We have installed, and we expect to continue to install, capacity in anticipation of increased television demand generated by this trend. However, we may be unable to successfully execute our strategy or sustain our growth and profitability if this migration to TFT-LCD televisions does not take place at the anticipated time, or at all. Moreover, we can offer no assurance that threats from competing technologies will not significantly affect and alter our strategy for and competitive position in the television market. If our current strategy to address the expected growth in the television market, in part by increasing our production capacity, fails, our business, financial condition and results of operations would be materially adversely affected.

This excerpt taken from the LPL 20-F filed Apr 11, 2005.

Our revenues depend on continuing demand for notebook computers, desktop monitors, televisions and other consumer electronics products with TFT-LCD panels. Our sales may not grow at the rate we expect if consumers do not purchase these products.

 

Currently, our total sales are derived principally from customers using our products in notebook computers, desktop monitors, televisions and other consumer electronics products with display devices. In particular, a significant percentage of our sales is derived from end-brand customers, or their designated system integrators,

 

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who use our TFT-LCD panels in their desktop monitors, which accounted for 56.8%, 57.7% and 56.0% of our total sales based on revenue in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively. A substantial portion of our sales is also derived from end-brand customers, or their designated system integrators, who use our panels in their notebook computers, which accounted for 36.1%, 28.5% and 25.5% of our total sales based on revenue in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively. We will continue to be dependent on the personal computer industry for a significant portion of our sales and any downturn in the personal computer industry may result in reduced demand for our products, lower average selling prices and/or reduced margins.

 

In addition, we anticipate that there will be increasing migration from conventional cathode ray tube, or CRT, televisions to TFT-LCD televisions. We have installed, and we expect to continue to install, capacity in anticipation of increased television demand generated by this trend. However, we may be unable to successfully execute our strategy or sustain our growth and profitability if this migration to TFT-LCD televisions does not take place at the anticipated time, or at all. Moreover, we can offer no assurance that threats from competing technologies will not significantly affect and alter our strategy for and competitive position in the television market. If our current strategy to address the expected growth in the television market, in part by increasing our production capacity, fails, our business, financial condition and results of operations would be materially adversely affected.

 

New display technologies being developed by other panel makers, such as active matrix organic light emitting diode (OLED), which is a technology that we are also developing, or alternative display technologies, such as plasma display panel (PDP), may gain wider market acceptance than TFT-LCD technology, such as in the television market where larger panel sizes generally command higher prices. If consumers do not purchase products utilizing TFT-LCD panels as we expect, or if TFT-LCD technology itself is rendered obsolete, this would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations to the extent we cannot offset such loss in demand for TFT-LCD products by selling products using other display technologies.

 

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