This lack of self-sufficiency makes it hard to build profitability. On the one hand, Taiwanese vendors must pay technology and equipment fees to international upstream vendors, while on the other, Taiwan is still largely focused on contract manufacturing. Value-added profits are taken by downstream brand vendors and channel vendors. Therefore, despite collectively boasting the world's second-largest production capacity, Taiwan's flat panel vendors all proceed gingerly.
自主化不足造成利潤無法提升：一方面台灣廠商必須支付國際上游廠技術及設備費用，再加上台灣目前仍以代工為主，附加利潤都被下游品牌及通路廠商賺走了，因此，產能世界第二的台灣廠商無不戰戰兢兢。