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...Analysts estimate LG Display will sell just 800,000 units this year — mainly because manufacturing costs are so high. OLED TVs are three times more expensive than LCD TVs....
...HP accused Taiwan’s Chunghwa Picture Tubes and its subsidiary Tatung Company of America of causing it over $1bn in damages by overcharging, in a suit filed in the federal court in San Francisco on November...
...The regulator said it had fined LG and Samsung Rmb100m; Chimei – which is now part of Innolux – Rmb94m; AU Optronics Rmb22m; Chunghwa Picture Tubes Rmb16m; and HannStar Display Rmb240,000....
...He said the high fine reflected the long duration of the cartels and the breadth of co-ordination. Chunghwa of Taiwan won immunity for alerting authorities to the wrongdoing....
...Today, as industry watchers know, the picture is dimmer: Samsung and LG of South Korea are the top sellers of tube-free flatscreens, and Sony’s TV division is mired in its eighth year of losses....
...The five companies are LG Display of South Korea and Taiwan’s AU Optronics, Chimei Innolux, Chunghwa Picture Tubes and HannStar Display....
...Chunghwa Picture Tubes rose by its 7 percent daily limit to T$4.49 after reports that Taipei might allow Chinese appliance companies to buy stakes in LCD makers....
...Picture Tubes that inflated the price of flat panels from 2001 to 2006....
...Hirotoshi Uehara, head of Panasonic’s TV business, has said that his company’s plasma and LCD panel factories are running at full capacity....
...Officials at Samsung Electronics, LG Display and Chunghwa Picture Tubes were not available for comment....
...It is a while since the picture on liquid crystal display screens has been this good....
...LG Display, formerly LG Philips LCD, reported a net profit of Won717bn ($734m) for the first three months of the year, compared with a Won169bn net loss a year ago....
...Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Taiwan’s third-largest manufacturer of TFT LCD panels, said on Sunday Warburg Pincus would acquire a 10 per cent stake in the company, the first investment in the sector by a leading...
...Samsung’s cross-town rival, LG Philips LCD, is building a similar LCD assembly plant in Poland. Samsung’s LCD business reported Won650bn in operating profit last year on sales of Won11,700bn....
...The big picture, however, is that depicted by LG Philips: Sony is simply shopping for smaller screens, which are less efficient to produce at its own LCD joint venture....
...LG Philips Displays, the world’s largest maker of cathode ray tubes for televisions, has begun to restructure its Asian operations in a move that could lead to a sale of parts of the troubled business....
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