NPD Display Search today said the global driver IC market size will grow from $ 6.4 billion in 2012 to 2018 of $ 7.3 billion, of which Novatek is still 28% market share, ranking the first half of 2014 the world's first large large-size panel driver IC suppliers. The city transfer agency said driver IC market scale, mainly because of the driver IC and the average selling price higher and higher resolution, and features more integration, while smart phones are used for TV and LCD and OLED panel shipments sustained growth, also contributed to the display driver IC demand. From individual manufacturers look, NPD Display Search pointed out that by virtue of more use in the import panel factory, Novatek led the first half of 2014 large-size panel driver IC market, the market share of 28%, followed by Samsung Semiconductor (19%) and Lusem (15%) 3 names. Samsung Semiconductor and Lusem are the Samsung monitor and LG display panel driver IC major suppliers. In small and medium-size driver chip part, Renesas SP being used in Japan, Korea and Taiwan are many small and medium-size panel makers, led the first half of 2014 small and medium-size display driver IC market, the market share of 33%, followed by Novatek, Samsung Semiconductor (16%), and Xu Yao (7%) and Himax Technologies (5%). NPD Display Search materials and components market Tadashi Uno research director, said, due to the high resolution display for high-channel display driver IC, while display driver IC requires smart phones with touch capabilities combined with the growing trend in the semiconductor industry and foundries, continued to drive wafers as development priorities. Smartphone panel source driver IC demand from 2012 to 2018 between tripled the size of the market from 2012 revenue of $ 139 million to $ 2018 of $ 325 million; while chip design company started growing mostly in small and medium-size panel driver IC, add originally placed in the central processor functions. With TSMC, UMC and other foundries, will focus on the production of mobile device memory and processor high-value semiconductor, 2014 and 2015, the driver IC market will show the status of tight supply, mainly because drivers IC and timing controller (TCON) the price is relatively low, and therefore give priority to the production of foundry other semiconductor wafer and foundry manufacturers, did not specifically raise the price due to wafer manufacturing.