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TOKYO, March 4 (Reuters) - Japan"s NEC Corpsaid on Wednesday it would close a liquid crystal display plant in southern Japan in December, as the company faces a $3 billion annual loss amid a global glut in the LCD sector.

The factory, owned by NEC unit NEC LCD Technologies Ltd, employs 370 workers and has a monthly production capacity of 86,000 industrial-use LCD panels, mainly small to mid-size panels for products such as point-of-sale terminals and mobile devices.

NEC LCD Technologies said it will integrate production into another plant in Akita, northern Japan, and plans to halve its work force to 600 by March 2010 through voluntary retirement.

NEC said in January it was looking for ways to get out of the industrial LCD display-related business and cut its group-wide work force by 20,000 people by March 2010.

NEC shares gained 3.6 percent to 231 yen by 0521 GMT, against a 0.9 percent rise in the benchmark Nikkei average. ($1=98.44 Yen) (Reporting by Taiga Uranaka and Sachi Izumi; Editing by Michael Watson)

Tokyo, January 26, 2007 ---NEC Corporation and NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd today agreed to merge NEC Akita, Ltd and NEC Kagoshima, Ltd. with their parent company, NEC LCD Technologies, effective as of April 1, 2007.

The integration is aimed at increasing operational efficiencies and accelerating the decision making process through streamlined management of R&D, manufacturing, and sales functions, vital to enabling fast and flexible response to increasingly diverse and sophisticated customer needs in the target industrial and high-end monitor markets of NEC LCD Technologies.

NEC will continue to strengthen its technologies and management structure to maintain its leading position in the increasingly competitive LCD display market.

NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd. is one of the world"s leading providers of high-quality, innovative, active-matrix liquid crystal display (AM-LCDs) modules for the industrial and high-end monitor markets. The company focuses its development on three core technology areas: ultra-wide viewing angle SFT technology with high luminance and fast response; transflective NLT technology; and adaptive design technology that meet a variety of specialized needs for the flat panel display markets. NEC LCD Technologies" worldwide support includes sales and marketing affiliates NEC Electronics America, Inc. (www.am.necel.com) and NEC Electronics Europe (www.eu.necel.com) that offer specialized display solutions to their respective markets. NEC LCD Technologies employs approximately 1,200 people worldwide and offers one of the broadest product portfolios for the medical, factory automation, test and measurement, entertainment, kiosk, POS and ATM markets. Additional information can be found at http://www.nec-lcd.com/english/index.html

NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) is one of the world"s leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide.

NEC Corp. said Friday it will cooperate with Tianma Micro-electronics Co. in the liquid crystal display business by handing over a 70 percent stake in its wholly owned LCD panel unit to China’s largest maker of small and midsize panels.

The move, to take place around July, is in line with the NEC’s efforts to exit unprofitable operations and focus on more promising business, including cloud computing and the production of batteries for electric cars, NEC said.

The subsidiary, NEC LCD Technologies Ltd., based in Kawasaki, will be renamed after the Chinese company acquires it, but the workers will keep their jobs.

Tianma America, Inc.(TMA) A leading provider of small to medium size display solutions to the Americas, utilizing cutting edge technologies from Tianma Microelectronics and Tianma Japan, Ltd. (TMJ), coupled with state-of-the-art manufacturing resources of the Tianma Group, TMA offers a comprehensive range of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) products and associated technologies. Products include passive character and monochrome, a-Si and LTPS-TFT LCD, as well as AMOLED products with standard product sizes ranging from 1-inch to 21.3-inch and resolutions from QVGA to QSXGA for standard 4:3 aspect and from WQVGA to HD for wide aspect.

In 2014, Tianma’s shipments of small and medium size modules，a-Si display products for smart phones ranked first among the global panel factories. Our market share for high-end medical devices and HMI products also ranked first worldwide. Many customers have chosen to release their new products globally equipped with Tianma display products. Tianma is committed to continuous innovation, better customer service and supports different requirements for applications in the field.

Tianma has a clear technological and production advantage in the small and medium size display market where it has enjoyed a strong market presence over the years. Tianma has established a National R&D Laboratory on TFT - LCD Key Material and Technology, a National Enterprise Technology Center, and a post-doctoral workstation to enhance the knowledge and technical expertise of our employees. We also undertake multiple major national projects from the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, and Ministry of Industry.

We have a comprehensive production line combination including G4.5/G5 a-Si TFT – LCD, G5.5 LTPS TFT - LCD and G5.5 AM-OLED, plus two G6 LTPS TFT-LCD lines, enabling Tianma to achieve the highest possible level of product quality and supply capability. Tianma was the first to start mass production from a G5.5 LTPS production line in China.

We have established manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, and Xiamen, China as well as in Akita, Japan. In addition, a global sales and technical support network has been put in place that includes offices in the United States, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc. to ensure seamless global support to our customers.

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According to a variety of wire sources, NEC factories in both the Iwate and Fukushima prefectures have been closed because of electricity and water supply problems. Fujitsu announced on Monday that it shut down 10 plants. Hitachi has closed down six factories. Canon has closed eight factories, and Nikon has closed four facilities.

Through its U.S. operation, Sharp issued a statement expressing "deepest sympathy to all the people affected by this earthquake. There are no extensive damages to our buildings or production facilities in Japan including our plant located in Yaita-city, Tochigi prefecture." Its LCD panel production facilities located in Sakai-city, Kameyama-city, Taki-cho and Tenri-city are operating normally.

• Akita Epson Corporation (Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture). Operations have been suspended due to a power cut caused by the earthquake. Damage to the buildings and production facilities were minimal. While carefully confirming plant safety and electricity power supply, Epson resumed operations from March 14.

Commenting on the effect of the earthquake and subsequent events on the LCD panel manufacturing sector in Japan, yesterday David Hsieh, vice president, greater China market, DisplaySearch, issued an email blast saying that “Some TFT LCD factories located in the impacted area, including Hitachi Display (Chiba prefecture), NEC’s Gen 2 (Akita prefecture), Toshiba’s Fukaya and Ishikawa factories, as well as Epson’s Gen 2, were reportedly not damaged by the earthquake. But it is very likely that these factories have paused production to gauge the impact and calibrate the facilities. These factories are all focused on small/medium panels, and their share in the industry is very minor. We are assuming that there will be no major impact to the TFT LCD industry as a result.”

“The majority of the TFT LCD industry is not located in the area most heavily impacted by the earthquake,” Hsieh said. "Sharp’s Gen 8 and Gen 10, Panasonic LCD’s Gen 8, and NEG’s glass tanks are all located in the Kansai area, which does not appear to have been affected by the earthquake. Key LCD component makers, like Nitto Denko, DNP, Sumitomo, Toppan, and Corning, have located most of their facilities in west Japan. These LCD and components clusters do not appear to have been affected.”

When the damage has been repaired — when the Japanese plants that produce not just the chips that power the worlds’ great products, but great finished products as well — are back up full-speed, we’ll all breathe a sigh of relief. Because the Japanese electronics industry is the economic backbone and the pride of a great country, that stands alongside this one, in a perennial striving toward excellence in design, process, and go-to-market execution. Godspeed to our Japanese colleagues in the commercial AV, projection, flat panel display, digital signage, semiconductor, cellphone, and smartphone industries, as they bounce back quickly, and come back even stronger than before.

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Active matrix substrate having spacers, liquid crystal display panel having spacers, liquid crystal display element, liquid crystal display device, and substrate for liquid crystal display panels

Active matrix substrate having spacers, liquid crystal display panel having spacers, liquid crystal display element, liquid crystal display device, and substrate for liquid crystal display panels

Active matrix substrate having spacers, liquid crystal display panel having spacers, liquid crystal display element, liquid crystal display device, and substrate for liquid crystal display panels

Flat-panel displays are thin panels of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying text, images, or video. Liquid crystal displays (LCD), OLED (organic light emitting diode) and microLED displays are not quite the same; since LCD uses a liquid crystal that reacts to an electric current blocking light or allowing it to pass through the panel, whereas OLED/microLED displays consist of electroluminescent organic/inorganic materials that generate light when a current is passed through the material. LCD, OLED and microLED displays are driven using LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, and A-Si TFT transistor technologies as their backplane using ITO to supply current to the transistors and in turn to the liquid crystal or electroluminescent material. Segment and passive OLED and LCD displays do not use a backplane but use indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive material, to pass current to the electroluminescent material or liquid crystal. In LCDs, there is an even layer of liquid crystal throughout the panel whereas an OLED display has the electroluminescent material only where it is meant to light up. OLEDs, LCDs and microLEDs can be made flexible and transparent, but LCDs require a backlight because they cannot emit light on their own like OLEDs and microLEDs.

Liquid-crystal display (or LCD) is a thin, flat panel used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. They are usually made of glass but they can also be made out of plastic. Some manufacturers make transparent LCD panels and special sequential color segment LCDs that have higher than usual refresh rates and an RGB backlight. The backlight is synchronized with the display so that the colors will show up as needed. The list of LCD manufacturers:

Organic light emitting diode (or OLED displays) is a thin, flat panel made of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. OLED panels can also take the shape of a light panel, where red, green and blue light emitting materials are stacked to create a white light panel. OLED displays can also be made transparent and/or flexible and these transparent panels are available on the market and are widely used in smartphones with under-display optical fingerprint sensors. LCD and OLED displays are available in different shapes, the most prominent of which is a circular display, which is used in smartwatches. The list of OLED display manufacturers:

MicroLED displays is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Like OLED, microLED offers infinite contrast ratio, but unlike OLED, microLED is immune to screen burn-in, and consumes less power while having higher light output, as it uses LEDs instead of organic electroluminescent materials, The list of MicroLED display manufacturers:

LCDs are made in a glass substrate. For OLED, the substrate can also be plastic. The size of the substrates are specified in generations, with each generation using a larger substrate. For example, a 4th generation substrate is larger in size than a 3rd generation substrate. A larger substrate allows for more panels to be cut from a single substrate, or for larger panels to be made, akin to increasing wafer sizes in the semiconductor industry.

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