Earthquake potentially disrupts display panel supply

some info:
"As reported by Tom's Hardware, an earthquake that hit Taiwan last week impacted the production of leading LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO). Company chairman Paul Peng said (via DigiTimes) that it took "at least a few hours" to get the lines restarted, resulting in some output loss—though he never said how much."
 
Different company. That's LG, not AUO.

The earthquake compounded component supply problems in a display industry already suffering the effects of a power outage in Takatsuki, Japan. The five-hour incident on November 10 affected Nippon Electric Glass's (NEG) Shiga-Takatsuki plant, which manufactures glass substrates for flat-panel displays. The company says some equipment was damaged during the outage.

Tom's writes that NEG is responsible for around 10 percent of the world's glass substrate manufacturing capacity, and Peng believes it will take three to four months for NEG's operations to return to normal. One of its closest partners is LG, so we could see the South Korean firm's TVs, laptops, and monitors in short supply and their prices could rise.
 
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