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...A national champion created in 2010 through a government-orchestrated merger of the chip units of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC, Renesas uses Altium’s software design tools for its own development...
...Having conquered the market for cheaper mass-market LCD technology, Chinese display manufacturers are now making inroads on the last bastion of South Korean technological superiority, with their leader —...
...“With the stimulation from generative AI, electric vehicles and other technologies, we hope the tech industry could catch its breath in 2024 and even grow.”...
...Last week BOE, which has already squeezed its South Korean rivals out of the lower end LCD market, announced it was building a $9bn advanced OLED production facility in the Chinese city of Chengdu....
...Finastra clinched a $4.8bn loan this year to refinance its existing debts, according to PitchBook LCD data....
...Musk’s Starlink has more than 2,000 satellites in orbit with newer technology....
...Similarly, information technology company NEC, telecoms company KDDI, and instant noodle maker Nissin Foods have all adopted the “Yanagi model”....
...Eneos has bet on EVs, taking over rights to operate a network of electric chargers from tech group NEC earlier this month....
...Similarly, the growth in sales of LCD television sets and online gaming gadgets is expected to decrease as the easing of coronavirus restrictions allows consumers in Europe and America to go out again....
...“LCD supply is gradually increasing as the chip crunch is slightly easing,” said CW Chung, head of research at Nomura in Seoul....
...Screens using organic LED (OLED) technology are thinner, boast sharper colours, higher resolution and lower energy needs. They can even be folded....
...As with the Foxconn LCD idea, that makes little business sense because most car chips are made using more mature technology not typically installed in new plants....
...It has been involved in the acquisition of a range of Japanese industrial gems, including Sony’s Vaio laptop business and the defence equipment subsidiary of NEC....
...It also reflected urgent pressure on Samsung Display to develop more advanced organic light-emitting diode panel technology, a fast-growing section of the market....
...Even LCD displays, a sector once seen to be in terminal decline, have recorded a consistent increase in panel prices....
...Investors believe the broader electronics boom will continue in 2021, with LCD prices to remain firm in the first half....
...As with domestic peer NEC, Fujitsu sees the US-China trade dispute and sanctions against Chinese telecoms group Huawei as a chance to get back in to the global race to supply 5G equipment....
...Key implications: The technology under development is called micro OLED display and is radically different from conventional LCD screens or the OLED displays in high-end smartphones....
...While the South Korean tech conglomerate has been developing telecoms technology for more than 40 years, it has wrongly focused in the past on a series of wireless technologies that quickly became obsolete...
...Tianma, which bought NEC’s LCD business, is making inroads in the market for small and midsize panels for smartphones....
...Samsung Display, which has LCD production lines in South Korea and China, has been hit by overcapacity....
...Being self-emissive, they do not need the standard backlights of LCD screens, so when individual pixels are turned off, a true black is achieved....
...Complicating the situation is a growth in the use of technology dependent on Korean components, even as it threatens to choke off supply....
...But making this same screen much larger — over 55 inches — requires different technology. After a flopped attempt in 2013, Samsung ended development and stayed with traditional LCD TVs....
...While Chinese companies are dominant in the global facial recognition market, their position is coming under pressure from rivals such as Japan’s NEC which supplies similar technology in 14 countries, and...
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