Archive for the ‘Suppliers’ Category
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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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
By David Barnes, VP, Strategic Analysis
Raise your hand if you remember the TV program “Connections” by James Burke, first aired by the BBC in 1979 and by PBS in the USA subsequently through 1997. Like Mr. Burke, I find my mind connects data points from many sources. Unfortunately, unlike him, ...
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