Employees involved in Hitachi Consumer Electronics flat-panel TV business, including Hitachi CM, we plan to take advantage of new business and in and out of the Hitachi Group Hitachi Consumer Electronics.

ENGADGET: Hitachi to halt domestic production of Wooo LCD and plasma TVs, Mitsubishi to axe optical discs?

In addition, information tech projection Hitachi flat-screen TV has ever produced (President: Kenichi Yoshitake) is the production technology and techniques such as optical plastic substrate packaging technology developed in the manufacture of flat-screen televisions and other video equipment will continue to contract manufacturing products outside the Hitachi Group.

ENGADGET: Hitachi to halt domestic production of Wooo LCD and plasma TVs, Mitsubishi to axe optical discs?

Recently, in order to further improve profitability, flat-screen TVs from Hitachi Consumer Electronics business, which will be transferred to Hitachi CM group responsible for overall sales across the Hitachi brand home appliances.

ENGADGET: Hitachi to halt domestic production of Wooo LCD and plasma TVs, Mitsubishi to axe optical discs?

Nonetheless, from an investor's perspective, 3C still merits a significant amount of attention simply because of its members, a list that also includes: AIG, Areva, Bayer, British Sky Broadcasting, Dow Chemical, Endesa, Hitachi, Munich Re Group, RAO UES Russia, SAS and Siemens.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Nikkei article quotes the chairman of Hitachi, which has 103 group affiliates in China, employing some 60, 000 persons, as saying that the company is re-balancing its Asian production and is increasing the role of Thailand.

FORBES: Managing China Risk

And in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, a group led by Haroun Ahmed at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in Britain reports another vital step, a single-electron transistor that, for the first time, amplifies its input signal (though only by a factor of 3.7, several hundred times more weakly than a conventional transistor does).

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