Sankyo Co., a subsidiary of TECO Electric & Machinery Co., has been suing Sharp for patent infringement concerning domestic sales of LCD TVs that were using AUO panels. Sharp settled with Sankyo/TECO and cross-licensed with AUO.
Sharp’s internal LCD capacity is not enough to fulfill all the demand from its Sharp TV BU. So, Sharp went [...]

The National Development Regulatory Commission (NDRC) approved SVA-NEC’s US$300 million expansion plan to bolster its LCD production capacity from 396,000 units to 1.02 million. Shanghai SVA Photoelectron, a unit of SVA Group, will invest US$225 million into SVA-NEC and NEC will invest the rest.
SVA-NEC has so far concentrated on 15″, 17″ and some 19″ LCD [...]

In the earlier post about IPS Alpha’s capacity expansion the focus was on LCD monitor panels. Now it looks like their focus will be on LCD TV panels, and rightly so. LCD monitors are a maturing market and not much is going on except for the sizes getting bigger and wider. The LCD TV market [...]

This is something that is contrary to what is Dell. Dell does not create new categories. Dell is not at the leading edge of design. Dell caters to the masses and not a niche market. Well, throw all that out because Dell has announced “The Showstopper”, a 20″ wide 1680 x 1050 pixel format ~20 [...]

IPS stands for in-plane switching, a LCD technology that provides extra wide viewing angles, solid color reproduction and minimizes color shifts and different anglae… and a favorite of Apple and all those that require a high level of color fidelity on screens. Matsushita and Hitachi will purchase US$133 million stakes in IPS Alpha and expand [...]

BOE is one of two China-based LCD suppliers. The other being a hybrid Chinese-Japanese SVA-NEC. BOE canceled its HK$2.5 billion (US$300 million) share issuance in Hong Kong. The cancelation was the result of a delay in its internal share holding reform. In a time when leaders in the industry are pouring billions to build G8 [...]

Everyone is moving toward HD. And many have been waiting a long time for an affordable HD camcorder. Sanyo’s Xacti VPC-HD1 is the world’s first solidstate HD camcorder and the company claims that it is the smallest and lightest HD camcorder on the market today. The VPC-HD1 captures 5MP still images and has an impressive [...]

Getting closer to the customer is hitting a cord with Taiwan LCD suppliers. AUO, CPT and PVI are applying for approval to invest in China for LCD panel production. Now, PVI’s chairman, Scott Liu, said that production costs will be cheaper in China, but I disagree. The LCD manufacturing process requires very little in terms [...]

The TA1 has a 14″ touchscreen LCD with a pixel format of 1280 x 768 with a 15:9 aspect ratio. The 14″ LCD is rotatable. HP’s DV1000 14″ wide NBPC had the same panel format but the industry is moving toward 14.1″ wide with 1280 x 800 pixel format and a 16:10 aspect ratio. The [...]

BenQ is claiming that its 20″ wide LCD monitor, the 202W, is the fastest 20″ monitor out there. It’s got standard specs like full 8-bit color generating 16.7 million colors, 600:1 CR and a 1680 x 1050 pixel format. It’s got a pretty sub-standard viewing angle at a limited 140/130 degrees (left-right/up-down). The response time [...]