Touch-screen suppliers are focusing their production on smartphones and tablets instead of on notebook computers, leading to a shortage of touch screens for notebooks

Engineers trying to mimic the peacocks' color mechanism for screens have locked in structural color, which is made with texture rather than chemicals.

With the introduction of the first smartphones in 2012 with in-cell touch displays, a battle is emerging between the traditional supply chain of ITO-based touch sensors that are externally combined with the display, and the display vendors themselves integrating the touch sensor layers inside their display stackup.

Tokyo's Nikkei national media conglomerate covering business, finance and industry news is reporting this morning that Apple is amongst a number of tech companies that are interested in a new kind of optical film that could create images with better picture quality than OLED film.

Korean news reported that Samsung and LG Display, through the encouragement of the Korean government, are starting to talk with other about settling various intellectual property disputes over AMOLED, and possibly on ways that they can work together on AMOLED technology and market development.

Mitsubishi Electric has come up with a free-form screen car display system which is capable of projecting images on different kinds of screens.

Wireless is set to be the leading growth segment for semiconductor spending among original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in 2013, with expenditures rising by a double-digit margin to support the burgeoning markets for smartphones, tablets and mobile infrastructure gear, according to IHS iSuppli.

LG Display, which is currently the only manufacturer of OLED panels, said it plans to boost production with a cash injection of US$657 million.

Taiwan-based AU Optronics (AUO) said Monday it has fully settled its price-fixing lawsuit with AT&T, and has accounted for the settlement in its 2012 fourth quarter financial statement.

The yen resumed its slide on Monday as Group of 20 officials held off from censuring Japan for appearing to target a weaker currency as a way to spur growth.

Tela Innovations has filed patent infringement complaints against key mobile handset vendors, including LG, HTC, Nokia and Motorola Mobility.

Corning's strategy calls for growth primarily through global innovation across a balanced product portfolio.

Trading of the Chinese yuan in Taiwan got off to a slow start Wednesday, with many traders preferring to do business in Hong Kong because of the market's greater liquidity.

GlobalFoundries is expected to ramp up to 7nm process technology by 2017.

China's pledge to reduce pollution after air-quality in Beijing hit hazardous levels on 20 days last month has cut financing costs for the world's biggest maker of solar wafers to a four-month low.

One in five China-based LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future.

In yet another wrinkle in the solar trade war with China, a consortium of European manufacturers filed an anti-dumping complaint with the European Commission against solar glass from China.

As part of its broader restructuring measures, Fujitsu said it will cut 5,000 jobs, including 3,000 workers in Japan and 2,000 overseas, partly through early retirement offers. Fujitsu currently has about 170,000 workers world-wide.

Cymer and ASML continue to expect the transaction to close in the first half of 2013.

Globalfoundries has announced a partnership with Adapteva to offer the company's Epiphany IV microarchitecture to customers using Globalfoundries' leading-edge 28nm-SLP process technology.