Competition record
AU Optronics
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AU Optronics makes TFT-LCD panels for televisions and computer monitors. The EU LCD cartel records the company as fined.
Overview
AU Optronics is a Taiwanese display manufacturer. Its TFT-LCD panels are the screens inside televisions and desktop monitors, sold to electronics brands that assemble the finished set. Panel price is a large part of the cost of those products.
The European Commission found that AU Optronics and other panel makers, including Chi Mei, fixed prices on those TFT-LCD panels. The cartel covered screens used in TVs and monitors. This library id is auo.
The library status is fined. This profile does not state an individual fine for AU Optronics or a total for the LCD decision. Parallel US criminal enforcement against panel makers is part of the same industry episode, and this profile does not assign a US penalty to AU Optronics.
Competition footprint
Television and monitor makers buy the panel, then sell the finished screen.
A fixed panel price moves into the wholesale cost of the set.
The EU outcome recorded here is a fine, without a euro figure attached to this company.
Consumer & business angle
Electronics brands paid the panel invoices, and shoppers bought the televisions and monitors.
Chi Mei, stored in this library as cma, is another panel maker in the same EU case.
What to watch
- Damages claims by television and monitor makers that purchased cartel-period panels.
- AU Optronics' current display business, which continues after the cartel years.
Markets
TFT-LCD panels · television and monitor screens · LCD panels · flat-panel displays
Also known as: auo, au optronics