The reason? Price of open cell panels has gone up 15%. One of the main components in the manufacturing of TV sets, open cells contribute to 60%-65% of the manufacturing cost.
The firms confessed that they held 53 meetings between 2001 and 2006 to fix the prices of flat panels.
LCD screens were expected to slowly fade and die, giving way to lighter, thinner and tougher organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels in everything from smartphones to televisions. But LCD is refusing to go quietly as its picture quality keeps getting better.
Cidco has asked the Maharashtra government to withdraw its August 2008 decision to allot 100 hectares for just Rs 300 crore to Videocon.
The state-run Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) recently handed over the land. The company was exploring investment opportunities in various states and finally selected a site at the Shendre industrial estate near Aurangabad.
A host of Indian companies, including Reliance Industries (RIL), Videocon, Moser Baer, Titan Energy, KSK Energy Ventures and Signet Solar, have submitted proposals worth over Rs 60,000 crore to the government for manufacturing wafers, polysilicon, solar cells, solar photovoltaic modules (SPV) and liquid crystal display (LCD) for semiconductor devices.
Ashish Narsale explains how some companies are promoting LED backlight TVs as LED TVs.
These sleek desktops manufactured by players like Lenovo, HP and Asus take up 70 per cent less space than traditional desktops
Panels made with light emitting diode (LED) technology are all set to replace liquid crystal display (LCD) ones in high-definition (HD) television sets.
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The $300-million GiantPlus is a leading Taiwanese firm engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling LCD panels and modules focusing on small- and mid-sized applications such as mobile phones, consumer products and entertainment equipment.
The Budget initiative to levy excise duty on MRP of desktops could lead to a 2-3 per cent rise in prices.
The government has also proposed to raise the excise exemption limit for small scale industry from Rs 1 crore to Rs1.5 crore.
Italian govt chips in to help Indian company.
The prize: dominating the big-screen, high-definition, flat-panel TV market. LCD makers have the advantage, but plasma producers are fighting hard.
Fierce competition and a fall in hardware and component prices have resulted in handset prices dropping 10-50 per cent across brands over the last 12 months.
Employees accused them of limiting competition by colluding not to poach each other's talent.
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The project, code-named MF101 by Foxconn, will be spread across 1,500 acres at Talegaon or Khopoli.
The focus is now on having premium service to give passenger comfort and increasing train speeds.
The technology offers better picture quality than LCD, with crisper picture resolution, faster response times and high-contrast images.
Apple still has a request pending for a sales ban against newer Samsung phones in that proceeding.
Silicon Valley is at the heart of the transformation of the global economy -- which has both winners and losers, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
If money allocations, investment commitments are a sign of better things to come, the state can be optimistic.
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