There is a battle ongoing between LCD glassmakers. Display R&D at Royal Philips Electronics are "no longer on glass-based displays," which are breakable and expensive to make, according to a senior vice president, Mr P Wierenga. Instead, the company is pursuing "plastic-based/cheap manufacturing technology," he said. Moreover, Philips is applying a range of video-processing techniques developed for TV to new types of displays, including screens designed for mobile systems. However, other manufacturers disagree! Corning has no intention of abandoning its glass display roots. Its board of directors approved preliminary funding for the development of a new liquid crystal display glass substrate manufacturing facility in Taiwan, & Samsung Electronics, the world's largest provider of TFT-LCD panels recently unveiled a new SOG (system on glass) panel.
