Hitachi has become the latest electronics manufacturer to be fined in a price fixing conspiracy that dates back as far as 2001.

Price fixing alleges that the companies, in order to maintain high profits and not incur losses due to rapidly-declining LCD panel prices, mutually agreed behind closed doors to maintain high supplier ...

It's not like Hitachi Displays really needs any bad news considering just how poorly LCD sales are going right now, but regardless of that, it's still facing a fine that none of us would be fond ...

Hitachi, or to be more precise, their subsidiary Hitachi Displays, is currently working on an LCD touch screen that's about 30% thinner than existing models.

Hitachi and three other companies kept prices artificially high on TFT (thin film transistor) LCD panels according to the charges. Hitachi sold primarily to Dell over the period from 2001 to 2004.

Japan's Hitachi Displays Ltd. has agreed to pay a 31-million-dollar fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Hitachi joins a group of LCD panel manufacturers who have pleaded guilty to price fixing LCD panels.

The corporations-which include Chi Mei Innolux, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Epson Imaging Devices, HannStar Display, Hitachi Displays, Samsung Electronics and Sharp, and certain affiliated entities of ...

We may still be waiting for technologies designed to give us screens just fractions of an inch thick, but for the moment Hitachi is setting new standards with its latest line-up - both LCD and plasma ...