Taiwan's AU to ship flat screen TVs to Sony: paper
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AU Optronics Corp. (2409.TW)  , the world's third-biggest flat panel maker, will start  shipping two models of 32-inch flat screen TV panels to Sony  Corp. (6758.T) this month, the Economic Daily said on Tuesday.
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A week before the device debuts Sony will sell a plug-in digital TV tuner for Japan's "OneSeg" format mobile digital TV broadcasts.
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Taiwan's AU Optronics, the world's third biggest flat-panel maker, has reported a net profit of 9.1 billion dollars for 2006, down nearly 42 percent, on the back of declining prices.
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Company is expanding production to deliver more flat-panel TVs.
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Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat panel technologies Â liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode, the company said Thursday.
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Sony, the world's largest consumer-electronics group, is having trouble meeting soaring demand for flat televisions as its assembly lines did not gear up quickly enough, a senior official said on Friday.
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. plans to invest 200 billion yen (1.7 billion dollars) in a new plant in Japan to produce large flat screens for televisions, a newspaper reported on Friday.
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Japanese consumer producer Sony Corp. has denied a report it plans to withdraw from the plasma television business but said its priority in flat-panel TVs remains in liquid crystal display (LCD) sets.
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Sony Corp. 6758.T said on Wednesday it   will launch nine new LCD TV models in Japan in the next few   months including a 52-inch high-definition set, aiming at   demand in the critical year-end holiday shopping season.
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Shipments of ATI Technologies consumer-electronics related chips, mainly for handsets, HD TVs and set-top boxes (STBs), grew 215% on-year in the September-November period (first quarter of fiscal 2005) of this year, claimed sources at ATI Taiwan.
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Exports from Taiwan jumped 17.9 percent in January on demand from China for electronics.  Overseas shipments rose to $19.9 billion, the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance said Wednesday in a statement. It was nearly double the 9.1 percent gain in December.
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Nvidia Corp. will supply graphics technology for Sony Corp.&#39;s next-generation PlayStation video game console, the companies said Tuesday.
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Sony Corp. said on Thursday it sees no  need to change its target to ship 2 million units of its  PlayStation 3 game console worldwide by the end of December and  6 million by the end of next March.
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(InfoWorld) - An investigation into possible anticompetitive behavior in the flat-panel display market widened Tuesday, with four more big vendors saying they had been contacted by investigators. Samsung ElectronicsÂ said it had been served with subpoenas by regulators in the U.S., South Korea, and Japan, while Sharp and Taiwan's AU Optronics were contacted by the Japan Fair Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), they said. Taiwan's Chi Mei Optoelectronics said a subsidiary in the U.S. was also contacted by the DOJ. The investigation came to light Monday when LG.Philips LCD Co.Â revealed that it had been subpoenaedÂ by regulators in the U.S., South Korea, and Japan. The probe centers on TFT (thin-film transistor) LCDs, according to Samsung. They are used in a wide range of electronics products including flat-panel televisions and computer monitors, laptop computers, cell phones, and digital music players. The three companies being investigated are among the largest manufacturers of such displays. The investigation comes on the heels of anticompetition probes in the DRAM (dynamic RAM) andÂ SRAM (static RAM) markets. The DRAM investigationÂ focussed on price-fixing, which is when vendors cooperate to set prices artificially. Sharp Spokeswoman Miyuki Nakayama said the company was surprised to have received the summons. Sharp has a policy of "fair and ethical management," she said. Cho Sung In, a spokeswoman for Samsung in Seoul, said: "Samsung Electronics is strongly committed to fair competition and ethical practices and forbids anti-competitive behavior." Among other LCD manufacturers, Sony said its joint-venture with Samsung, S-LCD, had not been contacted by the investigators. Shares in LG.Philips dropped 4 percent Tuesday, while Samsung's closed down two-thirds of a percent. The general market, as measured by the Kospi index, fell 1 percent. Sharp waited until after the market had closed to announce it had been contacted. Its shares rose 2 percent Tuesday. In the DRAM investigation, Market leaders Samsung andÂ Hynix Semiconductor pled guiltyÂ in 2005 to price-fixing and receivedÂ fines of $300 millionÂ and $185 million, respectively. Japan'sÂ Elpida Memory had to pay $84 millionÂ and Germany'sÂ Infineon Technologies paid a $160 million fine. In October several manufacturers of SRAM chips said they had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) although they did not disclose the nature of the DOJ's requests. The companies were Cypress Semiconductor and the U.S. units of Mitsubishi Electric, Samsung Electronics, Sony, and Toshiba. Â ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Sony Corp.  is on track  to ship 2 million PlayStation 3s to North American stores by  the end of March, and expects shortages of the video game  console to have completely eased by May, a top executive said  on Tuesday.
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Ask Jack Lin about his plan to help his company, Chi Mei Optoelectronics, catch up with its bigger South Korean and Japanese rivals in the flat-screen TV market and he gestures toward a vast sugar cane field in southern Taiwan.
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Global electronics giant Sony will launch its popular projection televisions with large LCD screens in China early next year, a company official said.