Sharp visits LG.Philips as Philips seeks buyer: report
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High-level executives from Japan's Sharp   Corp. 6753.T traveled to South Korea last week to visit   LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd. 034220.KS, as Philips PHG.AS seeks   a buyer for its 32.9 percent stake in the Korean LCD firm,   Taiwan media reported on Friday.
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp  will begin selling a 108-inch LCD television later this year,  executives told the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday.
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Philips  plans to buy U.S.  sleep therapy products maker Respironics Inc  for $5.1  billion, its largest deal to date in an aggressive expansion in  the fast-growing health-care sector.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. said on Monday it  will buy Fujitsu Ltd.'s liquid crystal display (LCD) business,  the latest consolidation in the fast-growing but highly  competitive market for thin displays.
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Shares in LG.Philips LCD Co Ltd  (034220.KS) surged on Friday on market talk Japan's Matsushita  Electric Industrial was buying a stake in the South Korean flat  screen maker, but both firms poured cold water on the talk.
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By Francesco Guerrera in Hong Kong and Ian Bickerton in Amsterdam. Philips, the Dutch electronics company, on Thursday said it had sold its personal computer screens business to the Taiwanese group TPV Technology
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Japanese chips-to-computers conglomerate Fujitsu Ltd. said on Sunday it is in talks with Sharp Corp., the world's largest maker of LCD televisions, to sell its loss-making LCD panel operations.
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Slow consumer buying weighed on third-quarter results of Philips Electronics, and the company says high inventories will continue to hit business in the fourth quarter.
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Dutch Philips Electronics   said on Wednesday it plans to repurchase 5  billion euros ($7.2 billion) worth of its own shares within the  next two years.
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KAMEYAMA, Japan  - Japan's Sharp Corp. 6753.T   said on Tuesday it will likely need to consider bringing   forward a capacity expansion plan for its latest liquid crystal   display (LCD) panel plant in Kameyama, western Japan.
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LG.Philips LCD, the world&#39;s second-largest liquid crystal display (LCD) maker, said Tuesday that it has developed the world&#39;s biggest active-matrix (AM) organic light emitting diode (OLED) display
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Europe's top consumer electronics  group Philips cut the forecast for its closely-watched  semiconductor unit on Friday, saying it expects third quarter  sales to be flat from the second rather than rising.
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. said Tuesday that it was aiming for a double-digit surge in sales of flat-panel televisions in the coming fiscal year helped by rapid growth in the Chinese market.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. 6753.T said on   Tuesday it may need to consider bringing forward a capacity   expansion plan for its latest LCD panel plant in Kameyama,   western Japan.
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Toshiba said it will buy large liquid crystal displays from Sharp as part of an alliance likely to help spark a realignment of the flat panel TV industry.
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Sharp and Toshiba plan to closely cooperate in the flat-panel TV business, buying screens and semiconductor chips from each other, they said Friday.Toshiba will turn to Sharp for the 32-inch and larger flat-panel displays used in its LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions while Sharp will procure from Toshiba the chips used in its TVs. The cooperation will begin during the year from April and will slowly build towards 2010 when two goals are expected to be reached: Sharp will supply Toshiba with 40 percent of its LCD modules and Toshiba will sell to Sharp 50 percent of the chips it needs.The deal provides both companies with a steadier supply of vital components for LCD TVs. The market for such televisions has grown from 161 million units in 2003 to an estimated 192 million this year and is expected to keep on rising on the back of strong demand and competition.Some of the display panels headed for Toshiba will come from a state-of-the-art &#165;380 billion (US$3.36 billion) LCD manufacturing plant Sharp is building in Osaka&#39;s Sakai City. Production is scheduled to begin in 2009. The plant will handle mother glass -- the large sheets on which several display panels are made -- of 2.85 meters by 3.05 meters. This size, dubbed 10th generation, is larger than that used by any other display manufacturer and will make the Sakai plant the world&#39;s most advanced LCD production center.The large glass sheets also bring a cost advantage for Sharp. The per-inch price of LCD panels drops with increases in the size of mother glass, so the panels are likely to be more competitive than those from rivals. That&#39;s especially important in the TV market, where strong competition has made price a key to success.Toshiba currently holds a stake in IPS Alpha Technology, an LCD manufacturing joint venture created with Panasonic and Hitachi. The IPS line uses an older 6th-generation technology and will need substantial investment if it is to remain competitive in the market.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. plans to spend up to  200 billion yen ($1.91 billion) to build a cutting-edge  domestic plant to make liquid crystal display panels for  flat-screen TVs, a business newspaper reported on Sunday.