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According to the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly LED Backlight Panel Shipment and Forecast Report, panels with LED backlights reached 10.6 million units in the first quarter of 2009, up 63 percent from the last quarter and 780 percent from last year.
Portable computers are leading the charge, with 4.2 million LED backlit panels shipped for mini-note PCs (netbooks) and 5.9 million for notebook PCs in the first quarter of 2009. HannStar led in shipments LED backlight panels for mini-note PCs, while LG Display was the leading supplier of LED backlit panels for notebook PCs.
In desktop monitors, LED backlit panels shipments were only 0.1 million, representing less than 0.5 percent of LCD monitor panels shipped in the first quarter. The value of LED backlights for LCD monitors is still not clear to end users, therefore the adoption is limited.
For TVs, shipments of LED backlit LCD panels were 0.4 million and concentrated in 40-, 46- and 55-inch as Samsung launched side-lit LED TV models.
