A long-standing supply crunch for liquid-crystal display panels is starting to lift, providing hope that prices for flat-panel monitors will begin falling again later this year.
Prices rose in the United States in 2003 amid demand for LCD panels for use in monitors, notebook computer screens and the latest craze: flat-panel televisions.
“We see supply of LCD panels beginning to loosen from the shortage we saw the last three quarters of last year,” Ross Young, president of research firm DisplaySearch, said Friday.
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