Japan
Display conglomerate, created a year ago by the giants Hitachi, Toshiba
and Sony with the idea of making LCD screens for tablets, smartphones
and mobile devices, plans to double its production by 2014 through
increasing investment in China.
The Japanese group plans to invest between 20 billion and 30 billion yen ($ U.S. 250 million to 375 million, approximately) to automate their production chain, to add components and perform final assembly of the product.
Display Japan currently has four manufacturing plants in China LCD, one in Taiwan and one in the Philippines, in addition to buying the Panasonic factory located in Chiba, a town on the outskirts of Tokyo, dedicated to the first phase of production of this type of display. The planned investment by Japan Display, a world leader in this sector with a market share of 20%, enters into a second phase of expansion that will bring their plants at full capacity, according to the Nikkei newspaper.
With this plan expected in fiscal 2014, ending in Japan in March 2015, the company can double its monthly production up to 47,000 small and medium LCD screens, twice the level estimated for this 2012.
in India, the Government introduced the new version of the world's cheapest tablet, Aakash 2.0, which includes a number of improvements and will be delivered at a subsidized price to some 220 million students in this country.
The upgraded version of Aakash (sky in Sanskrit) was presented at the National Education Day. The tablet has a 1GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, a seven-inch screen and a battery life of three hours.
Its starting price is 1,130 rupees (U.S. $ 20) for Indian students and exactly twice in the market. The device has been developed by British company Datawind, who chairs the Indo-Canadian Suneet Singh Tuli, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
The Japanese group plans to invest between 20 billion and 30 billion yen ($ U.S. 250 million to 375 million, approximately) to automate their production chain, to add components and perform final assembly of the product.
Display Japan currently has four manufacturing plants in China LCD, one in Taiwan and one in the Philippines, in addition to buying the Panasonic factory located in Chiba, a town on the outskirts of Tokyo, dedicated to the first phase of production of this type of display. The planned investment by Japan Display, a world leader in this sector with a market share of 20%, enters into a second phase of expansion that will bring their plants at full capacity, according to the Nikkei newspaper.
With this plan expected in fiscal 2014, ending in Japan in March 2015, the company can double its monthly production up to 47,000 small and medium LCD screens, twice the level estimated for this 2012.
in India, the Government introduced the new version of the world's cheapest tablet, Aakash 2.0, which includes a number of improvements and will be delivered at a subsidized price to some 220 million students in this country.
The upgraded version of Aakash (sky in Sanskrit) was presented at the National Education Day. The tablet has a 1GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, a seven-inch screen and a battery life of three hours.
Its starting price is 1,130 rupees (U.S. $ 20) for Indian students and exactly twice in the market. The device has been developed by British company Datawind, who chairs the Indo-Canadian Suneet Singh Tuli, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
