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...times, unsuccessfully, by companies including Intel, Gillette, AMD and Fujitsu....
...On Tuesday, LG said it would wind down its plasma TV business by the end of November, citing falling demand, and would focus on mainstream liquid crystal display and premium OLED TV business....
...Currently, Japanese electronics makers such as Hitachi, Panasonic and Fujitsu generate from 7 to 16 per cent of their sales from automotive-related products, according to Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities....
...But its global share as a provider of liquid crystal display panels tumbled from 4.2 per cent to 2.3 per cent in the latter half of 2013 after Apple favoured products made by LG and Sharp....
...While the collusion began at the peak of the market for cathode tubes, it became a way to mitigate the drop-off in sales as customers moved to slim display screens using plasma or liquid crystal....
...Electrical and machinery groups led declines and big exporters were lower, with Renesas Electronics down 9.0 per cent to Y265 and Mazda Motor shedding 2.1 per cent to Y95....
...newly created by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi....
...LG Display dipped 4.5 per cent to Won20,050 on dimming hopes for an earnings turnround....
...Apple has been relying on Samsung’s key competitor LG Display for iPhone and iPad display panels....
...Hitachi advanced 1.7 per cent to Y484 after the electronics maker reported earnings that beat its own estimates....
...Some analysts say it has created additional problems for itself by focusing on pricier plasma rather than liquid crystal displays....
...In the deal last August, it invested Y200bn in Japan Display, a combination of the touchscreen businesses of Toshiba, Sony and Hitachi, and took a 70 per cent ownership stake....
...Japanese companies pioneered thin plasma and LCD displays more than a decade ago....
...It has been more than 40 years since the Trinitron vaulted Sony into the top ranks of consumer electronics companies....
...LG Electronics, the diversified Korean electronics group, reported a fall of 87 per cent in second quarter net profit, blaming problems in its flat panel unit....
...Samsung Electronics was locked in battle over LCD patents with Sharp in the US in 2009. LG was also engaged in patent disputes with Hitachi over plasma display panel technology in 2007....
...In electronics components, production has been hit at Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, Canon, Nikon, NEC and Sony....
...Other manufacturers such as South Korea’s LG and Japan’s Sharp, Hitachi and Toshiba are planning or beginning to sell 3D sets....
...But the standout performer in Tokyo was Canon, the electronics company that provided the biggest support for the Nikkei 225 in Wednesday’s session....
...As well as its plasma panel plant, Panasonic’s liquid crystal display plant is also running at full capacity, he said....
...Hirotoshi Uehara, head of Panasonic’s TV business, has said that his company’s plasma and LCD panel factories are running at full capacity....
...Members of the LG group rose across the board. LG Chem was 9 per cent higher at Won139,500, LG Display advanced 1.6 per cent to Won31,500 and LG Electronics gained 4 per cent to Won104,000....
...The rest of the market is shared between Toshiba, Sony Ericsson, Kyocera, Casio Hitachi, LG, Nokia and several smaller manufacturers – not least Apple, with the Japanese launch of the iPhone....
...Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s biggest makers of mobile phones and memory chips, led the market lower by falling by 1.9 per cent to Won506,000 and LG Electronics, a big maker of flat-screen TVs,...
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