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News Release from: Oki Electric
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 February 2005
Acquisition to boost Oki's TFT driver
dominance
Oki Electric has signed a contract to acquire the driver chip business for large TFT LCDs from Texas Instruments Japan.
Oki Electric has signed a contract to acquire the driver chip business for large TFT LCDs from Texas Instruments Japan This acquisition is part of Oki's growth strategy to enhance its large TFT LCD driver chip business, which is considered to be one of Oki's semiconductor specialities
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the transfer planned for the end of March 2005, Oki will take in all customers and employees of Japan TI.
"This business acquisition will expand our large TFT-LCD driver chip business used in notebook PCs, monitors and TVs by enhancing the product lineup with an overwhelming resource for technology development", said Akira Kamo, President of the Silicon Solution Company at Oki Electric.
"With such strengths and by providing new solutions to contribute to a higher performance, next generation LCD panel modules, we will aim to hold the number-one market share in the world".
Oki has rapidly expanded its business for driver LSIs for large TFT-LCDs used for notebook PCs and monitors since it joined the market in 2002.
In 2003, it commercialised high performance driver LSIs for large LCDs for TVs, ahead of other companies.
In February 2005, Oki became the world's first company to achieve volume production of 10bit large-size TFT LCD drivers, enabling the display of one billion colours on an LCD TV.
The company also has unique technologies and has a strong advantage in high voltage processing LSIs that influence driver performance.
TI Japan has developed various industry-standard technologies since 1991 in the TFT LCD driver chip field, such as new interface technologies, new driver methods and new packaging technologies.
It has been the leader in the industry by developing advanced technologies, and in 2000, TI Japan developed the mini-LVDS interface method, now today's mainstream interface.
Oki and TI Japan each hold 8% market share in the noncaptive (excluding products for its own panels) marget for driver chips for large TFT LCDs (over 10.4in).
Especially in the 22in and above LCD driver chip market, Oki has a technological lead and a 25% market share.
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