Kodak is opening a second production line for its Xiamen printing plate manufacturing facility to enhance the company's manufacturing capacity for offset products.

The management committee of Guangzhou Development District has announced that the South Korean LCD panel maker LG Display Company has decided to invest USD4 billion to build its 8.5th-generation LCD panel production line in the district.

The computer production plant in Apodaca, a city in northeastern Mexico, has formally been put into production for China's leading PC maker Lenovo.

According to a report on investments in China's high-tech industry in the first nine months of 2008 released by the High Technology Industry Department of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, by September 30, 2008, about CNY153.37 billion has been invested in China's electronics and communication equipment manufacturing industry and the investments in [...]

Taiwan-based TFT-LCD manufacturer AU Optronics Corporation has appointed Chen Laizhu, its former general manager, as CEO of the company and the new appointment will take effect from January 1, 2009.

United Microelectronics, a Taiwan-based chip manufacturer, has announced that the company made revenue of NTD8.05 billion in September 2008, a decrease of 23.6% compared with its NTD10.54 revenue in the same period last year.

After a five-month negotiation, HP (HPQ) has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Chongqing Municipality to build a computer manufacturing plant — the company's second computer plant in China following the plant in Shanghai.

OKI has bought out its partner's share of Changzhou OKI-GEG Telecoms Ltd, a joint company established in 1997 by OKI and Jiangsu Guoguang Electronic Information Technology.

SVA, which has submitted three high-generation LCD proposals to local governments in China, plans to invest over US$1.5 billion to build a sixth generation LCD line.