Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung”) and Sony Corporation (“Sony”) today announced that they have signed a contract to establish an additional 8th generation amorphous TFT-LCD manufacturing line (“8-2 line”) at their joint venture, S-LCD Corporation (“S-LCD”).

NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd., along with its sales and marketing channels in Europe and the Americas, NEC Electronics Europe and NEC Electronics America, Inc., today announced the successful development of a new color TFT LCD module that enables the viewing angle to be switched from wide to narrow in accordance with display contents, use and application of the LCD.

LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. [NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220], one of the world’s leading innovators of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) technology, announced today that it plans to launch a 42-inch TFT-LCD TV panel that is substantially thinner than conventional panels, at only 19.8 mm, in the first quarter of 2008.