As the number of LCD driver IC providers continues to decline due to low profitability, TFT-LCD makers are finding it increasingly important to forge close ties with the remaining industry players in order to maintain stable upstream supplies of LCD driver ICs. Except for Novatek Microelectronics which entered the market the earliest, most of the remaining LCD driver IC design companies including Himax Technologies, Orise Technology, Sitronix Technology and Raydium Semiconductor have panel makers among their major shareholders.

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