There is no doubt that we are facing a small crisis due to the lack of supplies for the construction of our favorite hardware, especially due to the activity stoppages of the Coronavirus, this affects all components, peripherals and hardware devices, including the LCD panels that go to raise its price due to the current situation.
It is only necessary that a crucial element for the construction of toro fails in the supply so that a snowball effect is caused that leads to the decrease in supply and the rise in the prices of any product. This is what is happening in the entire hardware market without exception, both in components and peripherals.
Why will the price of LCDs go up?
The chip shortage crisis also affects monitors, leading to lower demand for LCD panels mounted on them. The consequence? The rise in the price of LCD panels will end up affecting the price of different screens and monitors.
According to the Chinese market analysis firm Sigmantell, the price of LCD panels will continue to rise in March. For example, in the case of 32-inch LCD panels, the price will rise by 3 dollars, for 43-inch panels the increase will be 5 dollars and for large panels that go from 50 to 75 inches, the average will rise by 7 dollars.
For smaller panels such as the 14-inch and 15-inch laptop panels, an increase of between $ 1.5 and $ 2 is expected. And in the case of gaming monitors that are usually between 21.5 to 27 inches, the price per panel will rise between 2 and 3 dollars.
The growing shortage of LCD screens affects the hardware market
Although the price increase is going to be a small problem, it is really the lack of availability caused by the crisis in the supply of new chips that is a problem with the distribution of new screens, whether they are monitors, televisions or even computers. laptops.
This is something that can negatively affect the entire industry, especially in the case of laptops where we have several hardware components that are going to be launched in the first half of 2021 and are designed for the laptop market. Like the new AMD Ryzen 5000 for notebooks and the NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile graphics cards.
To all this must be added the fact that the demand for low-end laptops, designed for teleworking and for education, continues to be high due to changes in work dynamics due to the Coronavirus in several countries of the world. Where the sale of low-cost laptops has increased in recent times.
It must be taken into account that the low ranges of the products do not usually absorb the cost increases since the margins are very low and the price competition is very aggressive. Those that always end up paying the rise in costs are the high ranges such as professional or gaming products, so the rise in monitors for gaming and professionals could not be only a few dollars.
To all this, we must add that Samsung will cease the supply of LCD panels at the end of this quarter, so the supply will drop even more and the prices of the new panels will continue to rise progressively.
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