S-LCD Corporation (Hangul: 에스 엘시디, Japanese: エス・エルシーディー) is a joint venture between the South Korean Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (50% plus one share) and Japanese Sony Corporation (50% minus one share) established in April 2004 in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.
S-LCD, as of April 25 2008, operated with a monthly production capacity of 100,000 seventh-generation amorphous silicon (a-Si) panels and 50,000 eighth-generation panels based on PVA technology,[1] which are integrated into both Samsung Electronics and Sony LCD televisions and mobile phones. Some other manufacturers, such as HTC, use S-LCD screens. S-LCD originally had production facilities in both Japan and South Korea. Due to rising costs and an increasing demand from the Latin American market, S-LCD opened production facilities in Baja California, Mexico, where both Samsung and Bravia have large LCD production facilities.[citation needed]
On December 26, 2011, Samsung Electronics announced that it will acquire all of Sony's shares. [2]
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- 2003: Samsung Electronics and Sony sign agreement for the establishment of a joint venture for seventh-generation amorphous TFT LCD panel production.
- 2004: S-LCD Corporation established.
- April 2005: S-LCD begins shipment of seventh-generation TFT LCD panels for LCD TVs.[3]
- August 2007: S-LCD begins shipment of eighth-generation TFT LCD panels for LCD TVs.[1]
- 2008: Sony and Samsung announce that due to increased demand, a second eighth-generation production line will operate in the S-LCD factory in the second quarter of 2009.[1] S-LCD may be headed by Samsung alone as Sony has announced a joint venture with Sharp Corporation, in order to compete effectively with Samsung, a task made difficult by their current collaboration.[4]
- December 2011: The company's partners announce that Samsung will acquire Sony's entire stake in the joint venture, making S-LCD Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.[5]
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