Samsung Electronics&#39; new LCD line to begin production ahead of ...
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LONDON, December 27  - Electronics equipment manufacturer Samsung Electronics (SSUN.FSE) announced today that production at its second production line for the new generation Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) units may begin six months ahead
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&quot;We have decided to increase LCD production capacity to meet the growing demand for large-size TV and computer monitors,&quot; says Samsung in a statement to the stock exchange.
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Samsung Electronics Co., the world&#39;s second-largest semiconductor maker, said it expects global chip sales next year to grow at half of this year&#39;s pace on increased supply from new plants coming online.
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Samsung Electronics   kept its position as the world's leading maker of televisions  in the second quarter thanks to its strength in LCD (liquid  crystal display) TVs, research firm iSuppli said on Tuesday.
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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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Sharp Corp. (6753.T), the world&#39;s  third-largest LCD TV maker, said on Friday it would likely  build a new LCD panel plant in Sakai, Osaka prefecture, and the  final decision will be made by the end of July.
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. plans to start shipping a new touchscreen liquid crystal display with scanner functions for mobile electronic devices this September, the company said Friday.
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Samsung Corp's 000830.KS Samsung   America Inc on Thursday said it would make some improvements to   its Blu-ray high-definition DVD players ahead of the holiday   season.
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SEOUL: South Korea&#39;s Samsung Electronics claimed breakthroughs in key technologies that promise greater data storage and faster processing for computers and mobile devices such as MP3 audio players.
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Samsung, the world&#39;s leading display maker, said on Wednesday that it has developed the first all-angle three-dimensional (3D) display panels for cellphones.
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Panasonic is preparing to repeat its CES show-stopper of a couple of years ago with the unveiling of the largest flat-panel screen manufactured to date, according to a Japanese media report.The company will unveil a 150-inch PDP television at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that begins in Las Vegas on January 6, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported earlier this week.Two years ago, Panasonic stole the lead on two South Korean rivals, Samsung and LG, by unveiling a&#160;103-inch PDP screen. The two Korean companies had previously shown 102-inch panels. With the new screen Panasonic captured by an inch the title of &quot;world&#39;s biggest flat-screen&quot; and held that title until CES 2007 when Sharp unveiled a prototype 108-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) panel. Panasonic&#39;s display remains the biggest PDP in the world but not the biggest flat panel.Panasonic declined to comment on its specific plans for CES 2008 but did say that say it is &quot;putting its efforts in developing larger screens&quot; because the 103-inch was well received.If the 150-inch screen does appear at CES it is likely to be an early prototype from the company&#39;s &#165;280 billion ($2.5 billion) state-of-the-art PDP production line in Amagasaki, in western Japan, that is due to start production sometime in the year from April 2008. The new production line is a step more advanced than Panasonic&#39;s current line and should be able to make more advanced PDPs at lower costs.The cost savings come from the line&#39;s use of larger sheets of mother glass -- the initial glass sheets on which several panels are produced. Panasonic&#39;s current line can handle mother glass from which eight 42-inch panels can be produced while the new production line will accept sheets from which twelve 42-inch panels can be made.Panasonic won&#39;t disclose the exact size of the sheets but simple arithmetic shows they need to be roughly 2 meters by 3.4 meters to produce twelve such screens. To make a 150-inch PDP panel would require a sheet of glass about the same size.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has developed a new LCD (liquid crystal display) technology that builds a touch screen into the display, a development that could lead to thinner and cheaper display panels for mobile phones, the company said Tuesday.
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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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South Korean display screen maker Samsung  SDI Co  said on Thursday it had developed a 31-inch  ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an  accelerating worldwide race for organic displays.
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Paper thin CES on Video Up close with Samsung's size-zero 52in LCD TV prototype...â¦
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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 said its board of directors has approved a plan to invest US$274 million in a second seventh-generation LCD production line at its Asian plant.