Iwate Toshiba Electronics will start to ramp-up production lines from March 28. However, Toshiba Mobile Display (Saitama Pref.), a wholly-owned subsidiary and manufacturer of mid- and small-sized LCD displays, expects to take about a month to secure recovery of its manufacturing line. Toshiba has started to supply some products alternatively from the Ishikawa Works, the company's another production facility located in Ishikawa Pref..

Fabless LCD developer Pixel Qi has announced it has struck a manufacturing partnership with Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) of Taiwan.

The profit gain was largely due to "a significantly improved performance in electronic devices, driven mainly by the return to profit of the LCD business and demand expansion in NAND flash memories," Toshiba said in a statement.

AUO CEO LJ Chen will be allowed to travel outside the US for the first time since criminal price-fixing charges restricted his movements. While in Taiwan Chen will not be allowed to meet with any of his co-defendants, some of whom may be there at the same time.

Hitachi said Monday nothing had been decided with respect to a tie-up with Taiwanese electronics manufacturing services firm Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, also known as Foxconn.