Sources recently indicated Quanta Computer has received LCD TV orders from Royal Philips Electronics. Philips now is also looking for other potential partners in LCD TV production, added the sources.

The overall shipments from Quanta to Philips are expected to reach 400,000 units in 2007, said Taiwan-based panel makers.

Quanta declined to comment on the orders.

Quanta president Michael Wang earlier said that the company aims to ship over one million LCD TVs in 2007. The top-five LCD TV vendors are all target customers for Quanta, said Wang.

Last September, TPV Technology, the world's largest LCD monitor maker, officially took over monitor and entry-level LCD TV manufacturing from Philips. Since the transition, TPV has been producing monitors and entry-level LCD TVs for Philips.

Philips plans to ship nine million LCD TVs in 2007, up from more than five million units in 2006, according to research firm DisplaySearch. Philips captured 12.2% of the global LCD TV market in the third quarter, trailing after Samsung Electronics and Sharp, said the research firm.