Samsung was able to secure stable growth for the quarter with an improved product mix and strengthened sales of high-end panels.
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Despite traditionally weak seasonality, continued economic stagnation in Europe, and the prolonged supply shortage in the PC industry, the Display Panel Business was able to improve profitability by expanding sales of high-end premium panels such as LED TV and 3D panels, which pushed TV panel sales up in the mid-20 percent range on-year.
So if business logic applies, the new factories that manufacture wind turbines, propellers or solar panels will end up in states like North Dakota or Texas, which have been the most successful, thus far, at attracting other manufacturing jobs.
Clever, but flat-panels with keyboards may end up not much cheaper than full-fledged notebook PCs.
Wheels, instrument panels and front-end modules are delivered in the same manner, but they don't arrive on trucks.
The craft is about the size of a car , though it looks like an oversized gold-coloured dustbin with four solar panels extended at one end.
Automobile manufacturers, such as Ford (NYSE: F) and GM (NYSE: GM), charge a lot of money for their in-car touch panels, many lower end models are produced the old-fashioned way.
The end markets for its glass products include solar panels, wind turbines and geothermal energy systems.
We completed installing 50, 000 solar panels across our business locations by the end of fiscal year 2012.
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To that end, its city hall is covered in solar panels and there are plans to fit cosier insulation to local-government buildings, build four waste-to-energy plants and buy 500 hybrid diesel-electric buses by 2010.
The brass panels are cool to the touch and its high-end composition feels substantial in the hand, enabling simple and intuitive handling.
The low-end EH-series will sport 20-inch, 1600 x 900 panels with AMD-E2-1800 CPUs and 4GB of RAM.
First Solar was mass producing panels with an average efficiency of nearly 13% by the end of 2012.
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Supply for display panels is also expected to increase, as TV makers prepare for the year-end holiday season.
Looking ahead, demand for TV panels is expected to grow in the next quarter as TV makers prepare for the end-of-year high-demand season and the Chinese National Day holidays.
Lower-end models in that range will feature Core i5 or i3 processors and 1360 x 768 LED touch panels.
As for AIO models, Fujitsu's FH Series hits the high-end of its line with 2.40 GHz Intel Core i7 processors, 8GB memory and 1920 x 1080 touchscreen panels for the 23-inch models, and a non-touchscreen panel with the same resolution on the 21.5-inch offerings.
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