Samsung to build new LCD plant
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will begin the construction of a flat-panel display fabrication facility in Tanjeong, Korea, despite the LCD retail disaster year that was 2004.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.  (005930.KS) on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of  digital music players and a download service, under an  agreement with privately held media provider MusicNet.
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SEOUL (AFX) - LG Philips LCD Co Ltd, one of the world&#39;s leading manufacturers of thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD), said its new sixth-generation TFT-LCD fabrication plant has started mass production of wide screens.
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&quot;We have decided to increase LCD production capacity to meet the growing demand for large-size TVs and computer monitors,&quot; says Samsung.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. , the world's biggest maker of memory chips, said on Monday it would invest 938.8 billion won ($1.01 billion) to upgrade its memory chip production lines.
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The electronics giant has begun production of next-generation screens using organic light-emitting diode technology.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - South Korean DRAM maker Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., said Thursday (Oct. 28) that it &quot;played an integral role in the development and manufacturing&quot; of the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), announced by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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The Samsung Electronics Company, the Korean electronics giant, said Monday that it would invest $23.7 billion in new chip production lines over the next six years.
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Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Corp. have agreed in principle to invest further in their liquid crystal display joint venture, a Samsung executive said Thursday.
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Samsung says it has developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating worldwide race for organic displays.
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LONDON, November 30  - Renault SA (RNL.FSE) announced its plans today of investing $573.1 million (600 billion won) over the next three years in Renault Samsung Motors, the companyâs South Korean affiliate.
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Samsung Engineering secures a $1.1bn order from Thailand's PTT Public Company to build two gas plants.
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. plans to invest 200 billion yen (1.7 billion dollars) in a new plant in Japan to produce large flat screens for televisions, a newspaper reported on Friday.
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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&#39;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.
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SOUTH Korea &#39;s Samsung Electronics, the world&#39;s largest memory chipmaker, is to invest $US24 billion ($31 billion) in new chip production lines over the next six years.
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TOKYO - Three of Japan's largest electronics companies, Hitachi Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Toshiba Corp., will announce later Tuesday plans to jointly manufacture LCD (liquid crystal display) panels.