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..., LG and four Taiwanese LCD makers including AU Optronics for monopolistic behaviour and colluding on prices for the Chinese market between 2001 and 2006. http://tnw.co/WpoA8C Australian shops rations formula...
...In September, a US court fined Taiwan’s AU Optronics $500m, which matches the record penalty for price-fixing in the US....
...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....
...Shares in AU Optronics jumped on Friday after a US judge fined the Taiwanese maker of flat panel screens $500m for price-fixing, half the damages the US Department of Justice had sought....
...Sharp and Samsung have also been making 4K panels and AU Optronics has supplied them for TVs from Toshiba and Vizio....
...AU Optronics, the world’s fourth-biggest flat panel maker by sales, faces a fine of up to $1bn after being convicted of price fixing by a US court....
...AU Optronics, Chi Mei’s crosstown rival, acquired Japan’s M Setek for its technology when AUO diversified into solar manufacturing in 2009....
...Samsung Electronics was the first to strike a deal with prosecutors, while five other LCD companies including LG Display and Chi Mei Optoelectronics, have all also pleaded guilty....
...Panel makers in Taiwan such as AU Optronics and Chimei Innolux have also cut their capital spending for this year. Slowing TV demand has forced Samsung’s rivals to cut their sales target....
...Oversupply also contributed to a net loss for the second quarter at AU Optronics, the flat panel maker, compared with a net profit a year earlier....
...More broadly, flat panel makers like AU Optronics and South Korea’s Samsung and LG Display have been suffering from a fall in panel prices because of lackluster consumer demand in Europe and the US....
...AU’s South Korean rivals LG Display and Samsung Electronics won approval from China last month to set up plants....
...The $1.3bn plant will not be making TV screens or computer monitors, products AU Optronics is known for....
...Of the other three companies, AU Optronics is fined €116.8m, after getting a 20 per cent reduction for co-operation; Chunghwa pays €9.025m after a 5 per cent reduction for co-operation; and HannStar is fined...
...AU Optronics bucked the trend with a rise of 0.3 per cent to T$30.65 after its touch panel unit unveiled plans to build new factories. Mumbai rose for the third session in four, led by banking stocks....
...AU Optronics fell 1.4 per cent to T$29.30 and Mediatek shed 2 per cent to T$453. The weighted index lost 0.5 per cent to 7,666.34....
...Over the last few months, AU Optronics, the world’s third-biggest flat-panel maker, had the dubious honour of being the last major independent flat-panel maker in the world....
...AU Optronics, due to report on Thursday, fell 3.2 per cent to T$34.55, while contract chipmaker TSMC shed 0.6 per cent to T$62.60 ahead of its results next week....
...Best of all for Sharp, the recession caused rivals such as South Korea’s Samsung and Taiwan’s AU Optronics to postpone their plans for 10G or 11G plants so it will be at least another year before they can...
...AU Optronics is the third-largest flat panel maker behind Samsung and LG, but it faces new pressure as the industry evolves....
...Samsung Electronics fell 2.4 per cent to Won823,000 and Hynix Semiconductor shed 2.4 per cent to Won823,000....
...Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp has asked Chi Mei to explain why it issued a statement on Friday denying a newspaper report about a possible merger with either Innolux or AU Optronics....
...Innolux, the world’s biggest assembler of flat-screen computer monitors, will give one of its shares for every 2.05 shares in Chi Mei, now Taiwan’s second-biggest LCD manufacturer behind AU Optronics, to...
...AU Optronics and Chimei, Taiwan’s two largest panel makers, also want to set up plants on the mainland once the island’s government lifts a ban on investment in panel manufacturing in China....
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