Archive for the ‘Suppliers’ Category
Friday, April 11th, 2008
By Charles Annis, Vice President, Manufacturing Research
A gigawatt is a lot of electricity. A thin film solar cell fab with annual capacity to produce 109 watts worth of panels is on a scale multiple times that of any lines currently in mass production. Assuming the use of 1000 × 1400 ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
by David Hsieh, Vice President, Greater China Market
At the end of February, Sony and Sharp announced that they will form a joint venture to build a Gen 10 TFT LCD fab, targeting large size LCD TV panels of 40” and above. Sony and Sharp will invest ¥100 billion and ¥380 ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
By Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Research
As we reported in an article in DisplaySearch’s Weekly TV Flash Report a few weeks back, Pioneer had announced their exit from the 42" plasma panel production business in Japan. It seems, however, that Pioneer now plans to completely abandon ALL plasma ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
By Chris Connery
Lite-On Technology, the fifth largest producer of desktop monitors in the world (on an OEM/ODM basis), announced to the Taiwan Stock Exchange on February 3 that they had a major fire in their Southern China production facility. The fire reportedly destroyed 16 of their 20 monitor lines. Lite-On ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
by Jin Kim, Director, TFT LCD Market Research
DisplaySearch’s Monthly TFT LCD Shipment Database revealed that large-area TFT LCD panel shipments in November were down 2% M/M to almost 5.7 million m2. However, that number represents a 61% Y/Y growth from shipments of just over of 3.5 million m2 in November ...
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