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Touch Panels prices are dropping fast

This shouldn’t come as a great surprise, Digitimes is reporting that, thanks to fierce competition in the touch panel market these past months, prices of…

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This shouldn’t come as a great surprise, Digitimes is reporting that, thanks to fierce competition in the touch panel market these past months, prices of 3.5-inch touch panel modules have dropped to US$9-11 compared to US$16-18 one year ago and the chip prices for the segment has also been reduced to under US$2 from US$4-5. This is obviously good news for all of us.

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