IBM, Toshiba plan joint output of high-tech computer screens
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IBM has signed its first joint-production agreement with Toshiba Corp. Display Technologies Inc will be a joint venture to develop and manufacture lightweight color LCD displays for portable computers and workstations and perhaps for Toshiba's television sets. Thin-film transistors will give the new 10-inch screens higher resolution and faster response than is currently available in color LCD displays. The company will be located in Japan and will begin manufacture in 1991, producing 1 million units in its first three years. Toshiba will gain IBM's worldwide marketing strength from the venture, and IBM will benefit from the Japanese company's superior manufacturing technology. Other US companies Toshiba has formed joint ventures with include Sun Microsystems, Motorola Corp and General Electric Co. In Jun 1989 IBM agreed to license its technology to other US semiconductor manufacturers to strengthen the ability of US companies to compete with Japan.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1989
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New computer screen plant shows production can snag in Japan, too
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Japan's Display Technologies Inc faces considerable political and production challenges in its efforts to manufacture active matrix thin-film transistor liquid-crystal displays. Approximately 10,000 color display screens are manufactured each month in a factory that IBM and Toshiba Corp own jointly. Manufacturing the color flat screens is extremely difficult, and the quality standards are so high that DTI reports that only 40 percent of the screens it makes are usable. In addition, steep tariffs have been imposed on the screens by the US, so that a DTI screen adds about $3,788 to the price of a comparable monochrome IBM or Toshiba microcomputer. As a result, the market for the screens is going to be much smaller than originally anticipated, expected to be closer to three million units instead of the hoped-for 15 million units by 1995. Each 10.4-inch, millimeter-thick screen requires 1,000,000 transistors.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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US manufacturer to sell equipment for making LCD screens for computers
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Applied Materials Inc, one of the few remaining US semiconductor manufacturers, will be selling machines that produce equipment for ultra-thin personal computer screens. The decision, prompted by Applied Materials' Japanese customers, point towards the rapidly growing field of thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal screens. Because most flat-panel displays are now made in Japan, it is also where a majority of the equipment will be sold. The machines are expected to help liquid crystal display (LCD) makers overcome the 90 percent defect rate that is plaguing the product. Presently, Applied Materials gets 40 percent of its revenue from Japan. By the year 2000, the company foresees up to 30 percent of its revenue coming from LCD equipment.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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