Taiwan's CMO said on January 28 that the merger
of the three Taiwanese display panel manufacturers Innolux, CMO, and TPO
Displays will be pushed back to April 1, a month later than previously planned,
the United Daily News reported. The delay is due to the ongoing process of obtaining
overseas regulatory approvals, according to said report.
In related news, both CMO and Innolux have
announced plans to boost their 8.5G LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) panel
manufacturing capacity, according to a January 24 report by the Economic Daily News.
It is reported that CMO has kicked off capacity expansion at its new 8.5G plant
in Kaohsiung County, which is expected to begin mass production within 2010.
CMO has also boosted the output target of the Kaohsiung plant from 24,000 to
60,000 glass substrates. Meanwhile, the Hsinchu Science Park has granted 28 hectares
of land at the Chunan base to Innolux. Innolux plans to invest a total of NT$500
billion in the Chunan base and build two 8.5G or newer-generation plants on the
premises, according to the Economic Daily News report. Innolux was slated to
begin construction on the new facility on January 25.