The company is the world's second-biggest manufacturer of polysilicon and had a market share of about 20 percent last year.

the joint DRAM venture between Germany？ Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan？ Nanya Technology Corp., on Friday (March 17) officially went public on the Taiwan Stock Exchange

Amid strong demand for its polysilicon products in the solar market, Wacker-Chemie AG？ silicon wafer unit on Friday (March 17) said that it returned to profitability on growing sales for 2005.

As previously announced, the Company determined that the quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the first two quarters of 2005 should be restated to reflect the Company's conclusions relating to the tax deductibility of an interest payment made in 2004.

Another 41 million homes and businesses -- over 112,000 every day around the world -- selected digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for broadband connectivity in 2005.

LG Electronics has released a 32 inch CRT television (32FS2RNB) which is claimed to be 30 percent slimmer than conventional CRT television sets.

Samsung SDI has topped the world list of the company with 607 OLED patents from 476 cases publicized and 131 cases registered last year, according to market research firm OLEDNET.