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 (OTC: SSNGY) said it was expanding operations with plans to build a $286 billion Won LCD production line.
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Korean chipmaker Samsung says it will invest 25 trillion won building new chip production lines over the next six years.
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Samsung Electronics plans to invest 25 trillion won ($24 billion) in building new semiconductor production lines by 2010, the company said Monday.
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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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Thin is in at Samsung. The South Korean electronics giant has announced a new LCD for mobile phones that, at 0.82 mm, is no thicker than a credit card.
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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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SHARP EYES HIMEJI AS SITE OF NEW LCD TV PLANT--Sharp Corp.  is considering selecting Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, as the site of its new plant for liquid crystal display television sets, informed sources said.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Sep. 13--TOKYO -- Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it will set up a  subsidiary in Poland later this month to build a liquid crystal display  television plant for production starting in August 2007.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it has developed the world's largest five-inch, flexible plastic flat panel display for mobile phones and other portable applications.
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Joint Sony-Samsung factory in South Korea uses the latest production technology to make less-expensive LCD TV panels.
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South Korea&#39;s Samsung Electronics said Friday it has opened a giant plant at Austin in Texas, to supply US customers with the most advanced memory chips used for various mobile devices.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Sep. 20--TOKYO -- Sony Corp. said Wednesday it will build a new plant in  Nitra, Slovakia, to produce 3 million liquid crystal display televisions  annually from September 2007.
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CHEJU, South Korea  - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS said on Thursday it sees global mobile phone sales   growing faster than expected this year while its own handset   sales would meet its target.
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The electronics giant has begun production of next-generation screens using organic light-emitting diode technology.
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Foxconn (Taiwan), computer manufacturer, will build a new plant for the LCD monitor and computer component manufacturing in Kutna Hory, Czech Republic. Investments should exceed CEK 3 bil. The plant should employ up to 5,000 people. It should be already opened in 2008.
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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.