Goldman Sachs forecast Tuesday that Samsung will post an 85% growth rate in its 2H operating profit compared with six months earlier thanks to the sales of flash memory and flat panel products.

Seoul Semiconductor announced that a Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has ruled that the invalidation action brought by Advanced Optoelectronic Technology against Seoul Semiconductor's white LED patent in Taiwan is not sustained.

LG Electronics said the utilization ratio of its PDP lines in the company’s factory in the southeastern city of Gumi exceeded 90% in August, up nearly 40% from a month earlier.

Business is weak for Photronics in both semiconductors and flat panel, but the majority of the short fall can be traced to the flat panel display market.

With new ink technology in hand, designers are investigating high-speed presses to print millions of throwaway electronic components at a fraction of the cost of silicon-based circuitry.

CCID Consulting recently announced sales for China's flat-panel TV market in 2Q07.

No product details, but official announcement coming soon.

Laird Technologies recently announced that it signed a distribution and lamination agreement with ITEQ Corporation.

Such details as the investment scale, construction commencement date and construction completion date of the Guangzhou factory have not been disclosed.

Handsets with product names associated with popular LCD TV brands are catching on among Japanese consumers eager to watch "one-seg" mobile digital terrestrial broadcasts. Among these handsets are Sharp's Aquos series models and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB's Bravia series. Aquos and Bravia are LCD TV brands of Sharp and Sony, respectively. At present, three models are available, and their cumulative sales have far surpassed one million units..

One of the first government contracts for the nearly US$1 billion Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program has been awarded - in a surprise move - to IBM. In conjunction with three of its business partners, the company will receive US$119.96 million between now and September 2009 to help educate consumers about the upcoming availability of two US$40 coupons per household, good toward the purchase of DTV converter boxes for existing analog VHF/UHF television sets.

The LCD TV range starts from US$899, with the price of full HD 1080p Bravias now starting at US$3499.

Microsoft continued its campaign for the use of spectrum known as 'white spaces' to be allowed by the Federal Communications Commission on an unlicensed basis.

BenQ has unveiled its latest SH and VL series LCD TVs in Kuwait.