LG Electronics' personnel changes carried out yesterday has attracted attention because there were a number of display experts promoted to vice president.

Samsung Electronics on Sunday signed a deal to supply products worth W455 billion (US$455 million) to China's largest home appliances retailer Guomei Electronics

Only about half of the homes in the United States with HDTV sets are able to watch high-definition television, according to a study by Jupiter Research and a separate study by Scientific-Atlanta, a maker of set-top devices.

BenQ aims to lead the Malaysian projector market by June next year.

Hitachi has announced that Kazuo Furukawa, 59, will assume the position of President and Chief Operating Officer on April 1, 2006.

Due to their relatively weak cost advantages, Taiwan panel makers suffer lower profitability when the demand outstrips supply, and greater losses when supply exceeds demand.

...the Indian chip market is worth approximately $800 million and is slated to grow in the coming years. Industry officials have said that India has a chance of competing with China and Taiwan to get a share of the global US$220 billion chip market.

Flat-panel TVs took major strides in becoming a mainstream product in 2005, thanks to aggressive marketing by TV makers and major production capacity expansions by display suppliers.

HANA？ founding members include Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems.

The nonvolatile semiconductor storage elements can be programmed at a power supply voltage of 1.5V and a low current of 100渙

A novel concept for lighting homes and offices integrates LED technology with building materials and systems to create electronic walls and ceilings.

Technologically, SED is the holy grail of the flat TV industry -- images just as sharp as a traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) TV in a thin, flat form. Whether its manufacturers can actually make a profit on it, however, is another story.

South Korean chemicals giant DC Chemical Co. Ltd. has acquired a majority stake in Sodiff Advanced Materials Co. Ltd. The move could propel Korea into the polysilicon materials market for use in making silicon wafers and solar cells.

Ibiden Philippines is scheduled to invest 3.8 billion yen to increase capacity of semiconductor package substrates for personal computers. The new production capacity is 14 million pieces.

Two California residents and a New York woman claimed the GTW-series plasma televisions, for which they paid more than $3,200 each, failed shortly after they were bought, according to the suit.

DID announced it has completed expansion of its first plant in Cheonan and has started pilot runs, targeting Samsung Electronics' seventh-generation line.

The 6580iFB boasts of the industry's highest contrast ratio rating at 4000:1.

Price wars will pressure profits among the big players, says S&P's Megan Graham-Hackett, who has a neutral outlook overall for the group.

The supply agreement with PowerLight, a globalsolar systems provider, calls for the delivery of $330 million ofsolar panels from 2005-2009. A significant product to be supplied is a panel used for roof integrated systems for new home construction.