The analyst and consultancy firm Omdia projects that global display shipments will drop 11.1 percent in 2020, totaling 3.2 billion units compared to 3.6 billion in 2019, based on significantly lower demand for TVs and smartphones, as consumers are unable to buy them in retail stores. The research firm says this is the biggest decline for the display industry since the 2008 financial crisis, which caused shipments to drop 8.8 percent in 2009.