Competition record
Chi Mei Optoelectronics
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Chi Mei Optoelectronics is the panel maker this library stores as cma, also called CMO. The EU TFT-LCD cartel records Chi Mei as fined.
Overview
Chi Mei Optoelectronics manufactured TFT-LCD panels in Taiwan. Those panels are the glass and electronics that become the picture in a television or a computer monitor. Brands that assemble sets bought panels from Chi Mei and from a small group of other Asian makers. Chi Mei's display business later sat inside Innolux. This library id remains cma.
The European Commission found price fixing on TFT-LCD panels used in TVs and monitors. AU Optronics is the other panel maker this scale file profiles from that case. The library status is fined.
This profile does not state an individual fine for Chi Mei or a total for the LCD decision. The id cma in this library is Chi Mei, not the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
Competition footprint
Set makers buy panels. The cartel was at that layer, before the television reaches a shop.
Chi Mei and AU Optronics were competing sources of the same kind of screen.
The EU file records a fine and does not, in this profile, attach a euro amount to cma.
Consumer & business angle
Television and monitor manufacturers paid panel prices that had been coordinated.
Households bought the finished sets in which those panels were installed.
What to watch
- Which corporate successor answers for Chi Mei's panel sales in damages litigation.
- Reader confusion between this id and the UK competition authority, which shares the initials CMA.
Markets
TFT-LCD panels · television and monitor screens · LCD panels · flat-panel displays
Also known as: chi mei, cmo, chi mei optoelectronics