Tag archive: Hokkaido

At next week's Hokkaido Toyako Summit, Japanese electronics giant Sharp plans to show off a prototype low-power 26-inch LCD television that consumes about a quarter of the power of a conventional 28-inch LCD panel, along with a new triple-junction thin-film solar module technology that uses no scarce or toxic materials and offers a conversion efficiency of almost 10 percent—among the top rates in the industry. Pair the two… Read More

From Epson's press release: Seiko Epson Corporation (“Epson”) announced today that construction has been completed on schedule at the company's once-delayed Chitose Plant, a high-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD panel (“HTPS panel”) fabrication facility located in the Chitose Bibi World industrial park in Hokkaido, Japan. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held today at the site to commemorate the… Read More