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IPS LCD is an abbreviation of In-Plane-Switching (i.e. a horizontal electric field) TFT LCD and a horizontal electric field LCD with high image quality, which facilitates the display of "beautiful pictures from any angle." The IPS method is based on the wide viewing angle feature, which optimizes the visibility of flat color tones and gray levels from any viewing positions, as well as allowing images to appear naturally from any angle. In particular, the company has achieved IPS-Pro technology (*), with a higher image quality developed for TVs, transmittance up 50% and a contrast ratio three times superior to that of the early IPS method. While the viewing angle is generally displayed at a contrast ratio of 10:1, this technology enables a contrast ratio of 100 or more in all directions. The IPS Alpha distributes panels produced using this advanced technology as "IPS Alpha Panels" worldwide.

IPS stands for In-Plane-Switching (lateral electric field) mode LCD, a type of TFT LCD display technology that has a higher picture quality when viewed at any angle. IPS is distinguished by a wide viewing angle, along with minimal gray-scale inversion and viewing-angle dependency, producing lifelike images. In particular, IPS-Pro*, which was developed for use in TVs, achieves an even higher picture quality with an approximate 50% increase in transmissivity and a contrast ratio at least 3 times that of initial IPS technology. In terms of viewing angle, IPS-Pro technology delivers a contrast ratio of at least 100:1 at any angle, compared with the contrast ratio of 10:1 normally used for measuring LCD viewing angles. IPS Alpha will sell panels manufactured using this leading-edge technology under the "IPSα panel" brand worldwide.

Glass plate inspection system for contamination control when manufacturing small and medium sized LCD and organic EL panels. Proprietary Hitachi technology allows front surface / back surface separate detection for thin glass plates.

Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics (KOE), a subsidiary of Japan Display Inc. (JDI), has been formed to design, develop and manufacture TFT LCD display modules previously made by Hitachi Display Products.

Japan Display Inc. is the consolidated display business of Hitachi, Sony and Toshiba—creating the world’s largest manufacturer of small to medium sized LCD modules. The business merger resulted from the formation of a subsidiary named Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics, which is charged with the development and production of high quality, high performance TFT display modules for high-end applications and industrial markets.

In the Americas, a new organization, Kaohsiung Opto Electronics Americas Inc. (KOE Americas) will replace Hitachi Electronic Devices (USA) Inc. for LCD sales, design support and light manufacturing. KOE Americas will supply and support a wide range of standard passive STN and color TFT displays from 3.5-inches to 21.3-inches.

“KOE Americas will support its Americas customer base through an established Manufacturer’s Rep and distribution sales channels and regional sales management. Building upon the legacy established over 40 years at Hitachi Displays, KOE Americas to enter the market as a strong and confident, premium brand display supplier,” said Keith Brown, vice president of operations and sales of KOE Americas.

Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics has design and manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, including house design, production and procurement of key components such as LCD glass, color filters, LCD drivers and backlights. The company plans to increase its product portfolio to capture a greater market share in both TFT and custom STN displays.

Providing further evidence of the booming market for flat-panel televisions, a Japan-based liquid crystal display (LCD) screen maker will double its planned expansion over the next two years, it said Wednesday.

IPS Alpha Technology, a joint venture between Hitachi Displays, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) and Toshiba, had been planning to increase panel production by 2.5 million units per year but will now expand production by 5 million units per year, it said. The figures are based on 32-inch panels and will be lower if production is focused on larger-size panels.

IPS Alpha has also begun discussions with the government of the Czech Republic regarding an LCD module-production plant to serve the flat-panel TV market in Europe. The plant will take LCD panels and add additional components including backlights and driver chips to produce a finished LCD module. The new factory is scheduled to start production at about the same time as the Japanese expansion is completed.

In recent months, LCD panel makers have been committing hundreds of millions of dollars to expanding production to serve the fast-growing appetite for thin TVs.

Earlier this year, Sony and Samsung Electronics reached a basic agreement to build a new US$2 billion LCD manufacturing line in Tangjeong, South Korea. That’s in addition to a 100 billion won (US$97.4 million) expansion of their first production line at the same site.

Hitachi, Toshiba and Matsushita Electric have formed a joint venture to manufacture large liquid-crystal displays for flat-screen televisions, escalating competition for a piece of the digital living room.

The three Japanese giants said Tuesday that they will pour $1 billion into the new company, which has yet to be named. The companies plan to build a manufacturing facility in Mobara, Japan, on a site owned by Hitachi Displays, an LCD unit of Hitachi.

The companies said they also plan to manufacture an Advanced Super-IPS (In-Plane-Switching) LCD panel, which is believed to produce better image quality.

Instead of building expensive plants, often costing billions of dollars, companies have been forming joint ventures that spread the cost and risks. So far, it looks like the risk is worth the reward for consumer electronics companies, as the popularity of LCD televisions grows.

Meanwhile, Sharp, the current top seller of LCD televisions in the Japanese market, built its flagship facility in Kameyama in western Japan last year. It has already started shipping products built in that plant.

Matsushita--better known for its Panasonic brand--and Toshiba said in a press conference that they will continue to purchase LCD panels from Sharp, even after the newly formed venture begins production.

Hitachi Ltd is the latest in a line of Japanese companies to announce new investment in thin film transistor liquid crystal display manufacturing. It is to build a 34bn yen ($322m) plant in Chiba Prefecture, doubling its LCD output capacity. The new plant will go into mass production in the second half of 2001 with an initial capacity of 20,000 glass substrates a month representing 80,000 20-inch displays. However the plans call for an eventual doubling of capacity.

Despite the recently announced expansion plans of other Japanese companies, with Sharp Corp investing 54bn yen ($507.8m), Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co 32bn yen ($300.9m); and NEC Corp and Toshiba Corp 10bn yen ($94m) each, a company spokesperson said Hitachi is confident the LCD market will continue to expand in the long term.

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:

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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Hitachi introduce ultra high brightness TFT displays Ultra high brightness TFT displays ideal for outdoor applications Maidenhead, UK. 3 March 2011. Hitachi Display Products Group (DPG) has introduced two new ultra high brightness (UHB) TFT display modules which are ideal for sunlight readable applications. The two new transmissive mode displays feature high brightness LED backlighting providing an exceptional brightness of 1000cd/m². The long life LED backlights employed provide 70K hours of operation to half brightness lifetime. The high level of brightness achieved with Hitachi’s new UHB LED backlit displays has previously only been achieved with displays using power hungry CCFL backlights. The new 6.5” TX17D01VM2EAB and 10.4” TX26D14VM2EAA UHB display modules feature contrast ratios of 600:1 and 800:1 respectively, enabling clear, concise images while on-board circuitry allows simple and easy adjustment of the LED backlight brightness. These display modules also feature an anti-reflective (AR) polariser coating which helps to disperse light in multiple directions effectively eliminating reflections and therefore making them perfect for outdoor and direct sunlight applications.

“The introduction of these two new displays continues Hitachi’s active programme of expanding the range of industrial LCD panels with long life LED backlights, LVDS data interfaces and extended operating temperature ranges,” commented Steve Donohoe Technical Manager, Hitachi DPG, “Hitachi is now able to offer customers technology leading display products featuring high brightness LED backlighting that are ideally suited to operation in high ambient light environments.” The 6.5” TX17D01VM2EAB UHB display has a resolution of 640 x 480 (VGA), a 6-bit RGB interface supporting a colour palette of up to 262K colours and mechanical outline dimensions of 153mm (w) x 118mm (h) x 9.1mm (d). The 10.4” TX26D14VM2EAA UHB display features a resolution of 640 x 480 (VGA), an 8-bit digital RGB data interface supporting up to 16.7M colours and outline dimensions of 243.0mm (w) x 185.1mm (h) x 11mm (d). Both UHB displays support an operating temperature range of -20° to +70°C.

The new 6.5” and 10.4" UHB TFT display modules are supplied through Hitachi Display Products Group distribution partners and are available across Europe immediately. For more information, please visit www.hitachi-displays-eu.com or call +44(0)1628 585 000. Hitachi Display Products Group is part of Hitachi Europe Ltd.

About Hitachi Display Products Group Hitachi Display Products Group (DPG) is part of Hitachi Europe Ltd. It is responsible for pan-European sales and distribution of Hitachi’s leading liquid crystal display products. Offering a comprehensive range of monochrome and colour display component modules, the company supports customers in a range of sectors including mobile phone, medical, white goods, automotive and industrial industries. Hitachi Display Products Group offers a range of standard liquid crystal modules and is also able to develop and manufacture customised displays. For further information on Hitachi LCD modules, please visit the display products group web site http://www.hitachi-displays-eu.com About Hitachi, Ltd.Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) consolidated revenues totaled 8,968 billion yen ($96.4 billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems, power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company"s website at http://www.hitachi.com .

About Hitachi Europe Ltd.Hitachi Europe Ltd., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., Japan. Headquartered in Maidenhead, UK, it has operations in 11 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and employs approximately 460 people. Hitachi Europe comprises of nine business areas: air conditioning and refrigeration systems; digital media and consumer products; display products; industrial components and equipment; manufacturing systems; information systems; power and industrial systems; power devices and procurement and sourcing. Hitachi Europe also has three Research and Development laboratories and a Design Centre. For more information about the company, please visit http://www.hitachi.eu . For more information please contact: Hitachi Display Products Group Mark Stephenson tel: +44 (0)1628 585 000 email: mark.stephenson@hitachi-eu.com

TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co will buy a majority stake in a Hitachi Ltd display unit for about $1.2 billion, making it the world’s top ranked maker of small and medium sized LCDs, the Nikkei newspaper said on Monday.

The venture, Hitachi Displays Ltd, will use the funds to build a factory in Japan that will supply Hon Hai, one of the biggest manufacturers of Apple Inc’s iPhone and iPad, the newspaper said.

Combined with its recent acquisition of Taiwanese LCD panel maker Chimei Innolux Corp, Hon Hai, which is owned by electronics giant Foxconn, would become the world’s top maker of smaller liquid crystal display panels with market share of 17.3 percent, outstripping Sharp Corp according to 2009 data.

But Sharp is also considering expanding its small LCD production capacity, sources told Reuters this month. And Japanese local officials said last week Toshiba Corp was set to build a new LCD factory for 100 billion yen, which media reports say will supply Apple.

Goldman Sachs analyst Ikuo Matsuhashi welcomed the Nikkei report as a sign Hitachi was continuing efforts to streamline its sprawling business, after Canon, which owns 25 percent in Hitachi Displays, said in September it had dropped a plan to take control.

The Nikkei said Hitachi’s stake in the venture will drop to about 30 percent from the current 75.1 percent, adding that the new plant would begin operating in 2012 and that it would more than double the annual capacity of Hitachi Displays.

Shares in Hitachi were up 0.3 percent at 409 yen in Monday morning trading, weaker than a 0.6 percent rise for the broader Nikkei stock average. Shares in Hon Hai were down 0.4 percent at T$116.50.

“Hitachi is constantly considering measures to strengthen its operations but will not comment on individual plans under consideration,” said company spokesman Atsushi Konno.

TOKYO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Taiwan"s Hon Hai Precision Industry Cowill buy a majority stake in a Hitachi Ltddisplay unit for about $1.2 billion, making it the world"s top ranked maker of small and medium sized LCDs, the Nikkei newspaper said on Monday.

The venture, Hitachi Displays Ltd, will use the funds to build a factory in Japan that will supply Hon Hai, one of the biggest manufacturers of Apple Inc"siPhone and iPad, the newspaper said.

Combined with its recent acquisition of Taiwanese LCD panel maker Chimei Innolux Corp, Hon Hai, which is owned by electronics giant Foxconn, would become the world"s top maker of smaller liquid crystal display panels with market share of 17.3 percent, outstripping Sharp Corpaccording to 2009 data.

But Sharp is also considering expanding its small LCD production capacity, sources told Reuters this month. And Japanese local officials said last week Toshiba Corpwas set to build a new LCD factory for 100 billion yen [ID:nTKZ006709], which media reports say will supply Apple.

Goldman Sachs analyst Ikuo Matsuhashi welcomed the Nikkei report as a sign Hitachi was continuing efforts to streamline its sprawling business, after Canon, which owns 25 percent in Hitachi Displays, said in September it had dropped a plan to take control. [ID:nTOE68R07L]

The Nikkei said Hitachi’s stake in the venture will drop to about 30 percent from the current 75.1 percent, adding that the the new plant would begin operating in 2012 and that it would more than double the annual capacity of Hitachi Displays.

Shares in Hitachi were up 0.3 percent at 409 yen in Monday morning trading, weaker than a 0.6 percent rise for the broader Nikkei stock average. Shares in Hon Hai were down 0.4 percent at T$116.50.

“Hitachi is constantly considering measures to strengthen its operations but will not comment on individual plans under consideration,” said company spokesman Atsushi Konno.

Hitachi Displays ranked No.6 in the global market for small and midsize LCD panels last year, with a share of 5.9 percent, according to research firm DisplaySearch. (Reporting by Yumiko Nishitani, Nathan Layne and Isabel Reynolds in TOKYO and Baker Li in TAIPEI; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

TOKYO - Three of Japan"s largest electronics companies, Hitachi Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Toshiba Corp., will announce later Tuesday plans to jointly manufacture LCD (liquid crystal display) panels.

The agreement will see the three companies invest a total of around ¥100 billion (US$913 million) to construct a LCD manufacturing plant on ground currently used by Hitachi Display Ltd. in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said in its Tuesday morning edition.

The factory will house a sixth-generation LCD production line, said the newspaper. Such a line is capable of handling mother glass of 1.5 meters by 1.8 meters. Mother glass is the glass on which LCDs are made and several are built onto one piece. More advanced production lines can accommodate larger pieces of glass and potentially realize lower production costs.

Hitachi Displays, a Hitachi subsidiary, will take a 50 percent stake in the joint venture. Toshiba and Matsushita Electric will each take a 21 percent to 25 percent stake in the venture, which is scheduled to be established in January 2005.

Hitachi will spin off the business on July 1, after which it will transfer the bulk of shares in the new company to Polaris. Terms of the deal have not been announced, but it is thought to be worth several billion yen.

— --Hitachi, Canon and Panasonic have agreed to a wide-ranging collaboration that will see the three companies share the cost, burden and benefits of development and production of flat-panel displays.

Under the terms of the initial agreement Canon and Panasonic will each buy a 24.9 percent stake in Hitachi Displays, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi that already makes small and medium size LCD (liquid crystal display) panels. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be completed before March 31, 2008.

Hitachi said it hopes to accelerate the development of cutting-edge LCD technology through the alliance, which was announced on Tuesday. Competition in the flat-panel display industry is fierce and there is constant pressure on manufacturers to invest in new and efficient production technology to keep prices low and their screens technologically competitive. However a new LCD plant can easily cost US$1 billion or more so companies are increasingly working together to share the costs.

Meanwhile Canon said it hopes to shorten development time and gain a stable supply of LCD panels for its range of digital single-lens reflex cameras. It also hopes to develop new types of displays that can be used in its information management products.

Panasonic, which has invested heavily in PDP (plasma display panel) technology for large-size flat-panel TVs and displays, will invest in a new production line at IPS Alpha Technology. The company is a joint-venture in which Canon and Toshiba also hold stakes although Toshiba is understood to be in talks concerning its exit from the venture. The new production line will help ensure a stable supply of medium-size LCD panels for Panasonic"s TV up to about 40-inches in screen size, above which it uses PDPs.

The wide-ranging collaboration and cooperation announced Tuesday is the first step of a series of planned moves that will eventually have Canon take control of Hitachi Displays and Panasonic take control of IPS Alpha Technology, the three companies said.

In addition to the LCD alliance, Canon and Hitachi plan to work together on development of OLED (organic light emitting diode) displays. OLED is a fundamentally different technology from LCD and PDP and has been under development by many display makers for several years. It"s viewed by some as a potential replacement for LCD technology because it provides a brighter and richer picture but a lot of work remains before it can be produced in sufficient volume and at a low enough price to compete with LCD.

Last week Toshiba and Sharp announced plans to work together in the flat-panel display business. Toshiba will buy from Sharp screens for its 32-inch and larger TV sets while Sharp will buy from Toshiba the chips used in its TVs. The cooperation will begin from April next year and will slowly build towards 2010 when two goals are expected to be reached: Sharp will supply Toshiba with 40 percent of its LCD modules and Toshiba will sell to Sharp 50 percent of the chips it needs, they said.

Sony and Samsung Electronics have been cooperating in LCD panel production for sometime and jointly own S-LCD, a manufacturer of cutting-edge LCD panels based in South Korea.