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Information Week
About 6 million flat-panel TVs worth US$7 billion wholesale are expected to be shipped to U.S. dealers this year, up from 2.7 million units valued at $US4 billion last year.
MSNBC
Strategy Analytics warned that the introduction of brighter LEDs and more efficient backlighting schemes will reduce the average number of LEDs used in both the LCD and keypad backlighting segments.
EE Times
the model LC65D90U delivers 1080p (1,920 x 1,080) true HDTV resolution; widescreen16:9 aspect ratio; and an enhanced 4,000:1 dynamic contrast.
marketnews
Discount store chain operator Mr Max Corp said Tuesday it will sell 32-inch liquid crystal display television sets it has jointly developed with a Taiwanese consumer electronics maker for less than 100,000 yen.
Japan Today
Thomson and Taiwan's BenQ Corp. said Tuesday they have settled a patent dispute involving LCD display technology.
EE Times
Business Wire
Bloomberg (via The Standard)
Yahoo! Finance Singapore
Reuters (via CNNmoney)
Company release
Electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics expects sales of 10 billion yuan (1.2 billion US dollars) in China by 2007.
Xinhuanet (via CHINAdaily)
CDT has appointed Dr Malcolm J Thompson to its Board of Directors with immediate effect.
Press release (via Yahoo! Finance)
Samsung Electronics' LCD division reported that it has posted large LCD shipments of 40 million units this year until November, and predicts that its annual revenues will surpass 1 trillion won ($967 million) for the first time this year.
Displaybank
NEC introduces light-weight mobile projectors with auto-focus function.
Company release
AUO dropped 60 cents to $14.01. Demand for monitors may be weakening at a time of growing supply, Goldman, Sachs analyst Helen Huang wrote in a note to clients. She cut the recommendation on AUO to ``underperform'' from ``in-line.''
Bloomberg
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